Despite the apparent success of the centre-left opposition she helms, Sunday’s vote was really a victory for the right. In ...

Those who didn’t read the small present hit the reset wall without warning after two years, unable to understand why their interest payments had suddenly quadrupled or quintupled –leaving them, ...

New Left Review is a bi-monthly journal of ideas that covers a unique range of disciplines. Published since 1960, NLR has consistently maintained a position as a leading publication of the ...

In many respects, today’s crisis resembles that of the 1930s, as described by Karl Polanyi in The Great Transformation.footnote 1 Now, as then, a relentless push to extend and de-regulate markets is ...

The English working class is one of the enigmas of modern history. Its development as a class is divided into two great phases, and there appears at first sight to be hardly any connection between ...

Two events have transformed the background of post-war anthropology: the colonial revolution leading to the rise of struggles against imperialism, now on the defensive, and, at a different level, the ...

Since its emergence in the late 1980s, independent documentary cinema has become one of the most vibrant spheres of artistic expression in the prc, and a central forum for registering social change ...

Ipropose to consider two different kinds of claims that have circulated recently, representing a culmination of sentiment that has been building for some time.footnote 1 One has to do with an ...

In the ‘Freedom of Self-Consciousness’ chapter of The Phenomenology of Spirit, which follows the better-known parable about the master and the slave, Hegel considers two schools of ancient philosophy: ...

Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s speech at NATO’s Defence Industry Forum in Ankara earlier this month was a hymn to drone warfare. Drones, the Ukrainian president proclaimed, had heralded ‘revolutionary changes ...

Here is a conundrum. While stock exchanges across the world react nervously to the onslaught on Iran, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is booming. Here is another: while millions of people in the region ...