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After President Sergio Mattarella’s decision to reject the Lega candidate for Economy Minister, and the ensuing constitutional and economic crisis, David Broder asks where next for Italian democracy?

The new issue of the journal Historical Materialism focuses on Marxist interventions into contemporary debates on identity politics. In this, the introduction to the issue, the editors outline the terms of the debate, and introduce the articles in the issue.

View the full issue on the Historical Materialism site.

The upsurge of armed struggle in Malaysia represents one of the lesser noticed repercussions of the 1968 developments in Vietnam and China. 

What do the French student movement, the strike in the SNCF, and the various movements in the public services really have in common?

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Louis Althusser's preliminary analysis of May 1968, written in a 1969 letter to Maria Antonietta Macciocchi.

Alex De Jong on the Philippines in the global '68

On the death of the influential left-wing political scientist.

Aldo Marchesi on '68 in Latin America

A Maoist critique of the East German university system published in 1968 by the Shanghai Red Guards.  

20 years after Suharto's fall, new movements in Indonesia are resuming a struggle against capital that had been buried by 33 years of dictatorship. 

Sophie Lewis on bodies, work and the misguided school of feminist abolitionism.