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

the most important events in the international socialist movement in 1960 took place in Cuba. And it may be that the most important event of 1961 will be the consolidation or overthrow of Cuba’s ...

Prior to the onset of the wave, a vast pool of capital lies idle, waiting for channels of profit and investment to open. Then ...

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 ...

On the UK economy.Over the past half-century, economic growth in Britain has been gradually slowing, becoming more concentrated in the south east and less evenly distributed. Each government, whether ...

Manmohan Singh’s India.In June 1991, when Manmohan Singh heard that he was about to be appointed finance minister of India, he thought it must be a joke. It was inconceivable that a sixty-year-old ...

Israel attacks Iran.The Israeli assault on Iran – launched as the genocide against the Palestinian people grinds on – follows a grimly familiar script. As with its previous campaigns in Lebanon and ...

The aesthetic debates within German Marxism are now acknowledged to constitute one of the most remarkable sequences in European cultural history this century. Few episodes either in the general ...

Fernando Claudin was a leader of the Spanish Communist Party until his expulsion in 1964, and is the author of the already classic The Communist Movement: from Comintern to Cominform. 1 The analysis ...