Jiwei Xiao on Margaret Hillenbrand, On the Edge. Analysis of working-class precarity as a structure of feeling, manifest in ...

An Imperial History. Antidote to apologias for the US intelligence agency, a periodization from the Truman Doctrine to the ...

Palestine Action is among the UK’s most militant and effective activist networks – coordinating the sabotage of arms ...

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The 15 April marked the two-year anniversary of a civil war in Sudan that has left tens of thousands dead and millions displaced. I published an essay in Sidecar, ‘Gunshots in Khartoum’, two days ...

not long after the last war, Bayard Rustin got on a bus in Chicago and headed south. When they crossed the Mason-Dixon Line, he stayed where he was. The cops took him off. He “went limp.” They beat ...

Zarathustra once ran into an old hermit so completely isolated from the world that he had not yet heard the news, namely that God was dead. One does not accuse Alain Badiou of such isolation; yet in ...

It was a Swiss doctor, Johannes Hofer, who in 1688 coined the term ‘nostalgia’, from the Greek nostos—return home, and algia—longing. Not so much an ancient passion as a pseudo-classical creation of ...

One of the most dramatic, yet shadowy, events touched upon by Guiseppe Fiori in his Antonio Gramsci: Life of a Revolutionaryfootnote 1 is the disagreement between Gramsci on the one hand and Togliatti ...

1. Regarding Conquest’s pre-perestroika estimates of excess deaths in the 1930s, in The Great Terror Conquest estimated that 3,500,000 people died during ...

Glucksmann next proceeds to the obvious possible line of defence against these criticisms—the insistence of Althusser and Balibar that the three elements and two relations that combine to form any ...