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We call on the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and its library to reverse the decision to close the Georg Lukács Archives.

Syrian writer Thaer A. Deeb chronicles the miscalculations that have prevented the Syrian left from playing a decisive role in the uprising that began in 2011. 

On the latest episode of Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast, Raj Patel and Jason Moore trace the relationship between capital and the environment through seven cheap things: nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives.

Rather than accusing Jews who criticize Israel of self-hatred, we should be asking ourselves what love can and should be able to tolerate.

Articles from a July 1968 edition of Intercontinental Press — on the French May, the Prague Spring, and repression in Greece — register the immediate response of the Fourth International to some of the political upheavals that defined that year.  

Ole Grünbaum, a key figure of Denmark's 1960s youth movement, describes the shift from consciousness raising to practical social experimentation occurring in 1968. 

Focussing on the Indian government's counterinsurgency operations against Maoists in Bastar, Nandini Sundar examines how formal democracy works to subvert popular power. 

How do we create an economy for the many, not the few? Joe Guinan and Martin O’Neill look at Labour's radical proposals for democratising the ownership of capital and industry.

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?