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Tariq Ali on the pattern of Anglo-American attacks on Iraq

"The lesson is not that aggressive territorial expansion is a crime that cannot be allowed to pay. It is that to carry it off a state must act in the interests of the West as well: then it can be astonishingly successful."
Introducing Contraventions: Editorials from New Left Review

NLR’s editorials provide radical antidotes to the self-serving accounts of the Anglophone press.
"Am I dead?": A witness's testimony from Gaza

One day under the Israeli aggression on Gaza
Scholars, students and activists in the UK stand in solidarity with Palestinians and call for an end to British complicity in genocide

Over 3500 individuals have signed a statement proclaiming their solidarity with Palestinians and denouncing Israel's siege in Gaza.
Q&A with Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory

Antony Loewenstein details his process and reasons for writing The Palestine Laboratory, with an insight on the events that have unfolded since the book's release.
With Tempered Reason: On New College of Florida & the Georgia Guidestones

New College Alum V Conaty reflects on Ron DeSantis’s cultural takeover of the bastion of progressive education, and the importance of sites of free thinking in red states.
Beyond Mechanical Reproduction

Dominique Routhier on the Situationists' critique of automation
Red Africa and Revolutionary Black Politics | Kevin Ochieng Okoth and Ashok Kumar

Kevin Ochieng Okoth discusses the key ideas in his new book Red Africa: Reclaiming Black Politics.
Look within: literary diaries and the culture of narcissism

Our appetite for literary diaries has never been greater, with TikTok and Twitter feeds filled with snippets of writing from Virginia and extracts from Sylvia Plath’s food diary. But what can the contemporary desire for the diaries of others tell us about our individualistic society?
Fascists Love Freedom

Alberto Toscano argues that understanding contemporary fascism requires undoing a knee-jerk identification of fascism with a monolithic, bureaucratic state and its opposition to liberalism in all forms.
A Statement from Berlin Culture Workers for Palestine

An open letter from Berlin's cultural workers calling on Germany’s cultural institutions and workers to oppose historical injustice and ongoing ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
The War on Gaza and Israel’s Fascism Debate

Western critics of Israel's apartheid policies and far-right government are frequently accused of antisemitism, but leftist and left-liberal Israelis have been decrying the country's descent into fascism for years. In this article, Alberto Toscano argues that fascism is embedded in the logic of Israel's colonial project.