The ruling authorities in Burma (Myanmar since 1989) have long promoted a rigid, racialized conception of ethnicity and sought to cultivate a permanent sense of danger threatening to engulf the ...

The dissatisfaction with politics-as-usual stems from a long-brewing desire to break with Japan’s ‘lost decades’: the period ...

For a decade in Britain, under Conservative rule, there was a recognizable and active Left. Now at last there is a Labour Government. But there is no longer, in the same sense, a Left. This paradox ...

Experimental natural science is grounded in careful observation. Each investigation must proceed from observed facts. In physical and biological science these observed facts are usually inert facts, ...

Attention all socialists and left-thinking people of the Earth. And all you left-sided, critical (down to your last unpierced body part) poststructuralist radicals. Punks and drum-and-bass heads too, ...

Il s’agit de gagner les intellectuels `la classe ouvrière, en leur faisant prendre conscience de l’identité de leurs dé-marches spirituelles et de leurs conditions de producteur. I hope I can promise ...

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s ‘The Secret Agent’.

They are worried that the US is going to end the war too soon. They’re willing to take a lot of hits themselves. Their pain tolerance is much higher than the American one, but it is particularly high ...

Given the unevenness of state penetration combined with social deprivation, it is not surprising that unrest broke out. The nineteenth century witnessed a wave of uprisings on mena imperial ...

Nearly half a century after its original publication in Germany, Georg Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness footnote 1 has at last become available in English. Those who now read the book for the ...

When I was in school I was getting disgusted with the attitude of art being so religious or sacred, so I wanted to make something which people could relate to without having read a book about it first ...