Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for mayor represents the most concerted outsider challenge to the ruling order of the city since ...

Spain has been rocked by periodic corruption crises ever since the country’s transition to democracy in the 1970s. The PSOE ...

The well-travelled life and consistently lucid, radical thought of global labour’s great comparative ethnographer—and social ...

On ‘late capitalism’.Late capitalism is an ambiguous term. Lateness may imply death or an ending, as when we speak of my late grandfather or the late afternoon. When the German social theorist Werner ...

The IAEA inspectors know full well that there are no nuclear weapons. They have simply been acting as willing spies for the ...

Elections in Poland.Having been lauded by liberal commentators as the saviour of Europe, Poland has now returned to its previous role as the continent’s reprobate. Presidential elections on 18 May ...

Assessing Trump 2.0.The US political world can today be divided not only between left and right, but along another axis: Trump maximalists and Trump minimalists. Maximalists are inclined to view Trump ...

Tradition and adaptation.How to relate to the Leninist tradition? How to extract its truth? The basis of Lenin’s success was the perfect adaptation of his political strategy to the historical terrain ...

An interview with Palestine Action.Palestine Action is among the UK’s most militant and effective activist networks – coordinating the sabotage of arms factories which supply the Israeli state. You co ...

The EU and Ukraine.With negotiations for a peace agreement in Ukraine now underway, and Washington signalling a possible détente with the Kremlin, European states are doing everything they can to ...

Escalation in the DRC.The Democratic Republic of the Congo is once again in the grip of a violent escalation. In November 2021, an organization known as M23 launched a rebellion in the DRC’s eastern ...

Capital’s fairytales.Throughout the 2010s, Larry Summers repeatedly insisted that the laws of technological progress had defanged the problem of overinvestment. As his putative inspiration, he cited ...