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Achin Vanaik surveys a large body of theories of the nation and nationalism, and considers them in the context of contemporary India. 

The success of the American far right in shifting the mainstream is built on the repressed strategies of one forgotten wing of 1968: a particular reading of Lenin’s theory of revolution.

Like US violence in Asia, the symbolic infantilization of Asians has a long history.

Kristin Ross describes the history behind two territorial struggles in Europe and examines their political consequences. 

Yesterday's decision by the French government to abandon its plans for a new €580m (£513m) airport at Notre-Dame-Des-Landes lead to jubilant scenes at the Zad. The Zad–Zone à Defendre, a small piece of land near the proposed airport–is site of the longest and largest social struggle in France, and yesterday's decision was seen as a victory for the Zadists.

The legendary figure of the Italian left discusses her new book, her coming to feminism, and her memories of 1968. 

Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello reflect on the development and triumph of neoliberalism since the original publication of The New Spirit of Capitalism.

Responses from Wolfgang Streeck, Cédric Durand, Susan Newman, David M. Kotz, Mingqi Li, Mary Mellor, Andrew Ross, Tim Di Muzio, Dario Azzellini, Ying Chen, Richard Murphy, Michael Roberts, Lena Rethel, and Heikki Patomäki.

Macron's supposed "novelty" quite simply consists of removing the semblance of contestation that still existed in the two-party system.

In this 1979 essay, historian Pierre Vilar reconstructs nineteenth- and twentieth-century Marxist theories of the nation — against the claim that they do not exist. 

Trump's trash talking is so gratuitously hurtful and so illuminating of how white nationalism works that it is worth lingering on.

Ali Abdullah Saleh is dead, but his politics are very much alive in Yemen.