Although a long time coming, Trudeau’s fall has been dramatic. He was elected in 2015 promising ‘real change’ and ‘sunny ways ...

Among the stories Claessens loved to tell was one about the death of Pieter Bruegel the Elder who, according to Flemish ...

Last November, Chad announced the end of its military agreement with France, removing one of the longest-standing pillars of French influence in sub-Saharan Africa. Once a kind of Hong Kong for Paris ...

Both the strengths of the New Left’s critique of domination and its underlying weaknesses reveal themselves, with particular sharpness and clarity, in the attraction of the New Left to an intellectual ...

A man stands naked in front of a screen lit by changing colours, facing away from the audience. He holds a series of poses, slowly walking back toward the sources of multi-coloured light – three 16mm ...

What has come to be known over the last ten years or so as ‘the labour process debate’ has been, literally, very much an academic exercise. And now its academic participants are pronouncing its end: ...

There’s a particularly thrilling passage in Fanon’s essay on the role of radio in the Algerian revolution. He’s been explaining how an instrument of colonial domination can become a weapon in the ...

Ralph Miliband’s recently published work, The State in Capitalist Society,footnote 1 is in many respects of capital importance. The book is extremely substantial, and cannot decently be summarized 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 ...

a great public debate about British universities is now in full swing. Since the immediate post-war crush, the expansion of student numbers has gone ahead steadily, and even further growth is now ...

Conflicts over land are on the rise in Tanzania.footnote 1 Almost daily, the news headlines announce five deaths here, two more there, on account of land-use struggles. Spokespeople for the ruling ccm ...

My book The Concept of Socialist Law challenges the view that an ideal socialist society would have no need of law.footnote 1 While thinkers on the Left advocate socialism in the name of justice, they ...