With a population well over a quarter of a billion, Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populous country after China, India and the us. Unlike its giant continental neighbours, though, Indonesia is ...

Red banners, red flags, red carpets. The people in the Great Hall appear to be red beings themselves. If you lift your head, you can see the meeting is commemorating the centenary of the May Fourth ...

The article by Karl Kautsky printed below is a singular text. It is well-known that Kautsky evolved a theory of ‘ultra-imperialism’, a supreme phase of capitalist development which would banish all ...

While many prominent writers influenced by Trotsky became historians, like Trotsky himself—Isaac Deutscher, C.L.R.James, Daniel Guerin, Pierre Broué—Mandel’s writings are more redolent of Rosa ...

Of course, there will be stupidities enough, and cliques of every kind too, but so long as it is possible to keep them within ...

Amid the recent outpouring of books and articles rehabilitating the purposes and practices of empire, two works have stood out for their unflinching scrutiny of British colonialism in Kenya. David ...

Perry anderson’s New Old World combines an original set of arguments about the evolution of the European Union with deeply informed analyses of the political cultures of some of its major states and ...

The traditional right-wing emphasis on law and order has an additional valence in today’s Chile, signifying not only the ...

Iris Young and I seem to inhabit different worlds.footnote 1 In her world, there are no divisions between the social Left and the cultural Left. Proponents of cultural politics work cooperatively with ...

Raymond Williams and I arrived in Cambridge simultaneously in 1961, he from a long stint in adult education to a college Fellowship, I from a year’s teaching in a Northern secondary modern school to ...

On the morning of Sunday 16 November, Hélène Althusser, wife of philosopher Louis Althusser, was found dead in their Ecole Normale flat in the rue d’Ulm. The philosopher, in a state of complete ...