‘The new Party came out already at this first Congress stronger than the SDF [Social Democratic Federation] or the Fabians, if not stronger than both put together’, wrote Engels of the ...

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 ...

Georges Lefebvre wrote his historical study of the Great Fear during the French Revolution in 1932, and its publication in English is belated but welcome. footnote 1 Its subject was a problem which ...

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

American pundits greeted both the election of Bill Clinton in 1992 and the Republican capture of Congress last November as seismic convulsions in us politics. Clinton was congratulated for reuniting ...

the following resolution was passed by the Trades Union Congress in 1960. “Congress recognises the importance of the arts in the life of the community especially now when many Unions are securing a ...

Althusser was in general unforthcoming on biographical matters—personal questions about his history encountering a wary, although not blank response. The two main experiences of his youth were ...

According to Karatani, when Marx was faced with the opposition between classical political economy (Ricardo and his labour theory of value—the counterpart to philosophical rationalism) and the ...

Hearing of Weber’s death in 1920, many in the German academic community might have thought the news referred to Alfred Weber, Professor of Economics at the University of Heidelberg. While his elder ...

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 ...

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 ...

How do you judge the present trend in Germany towards the possible eruption of a new nationalism, as evidenced by the NPD, and the electoral successes which that party has scored in several of the ...