Death by hunger stalks millions in the Sahel and Horn of Africa—the upshot of West-led political and economic processes as ...

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Can you tell us a little about your personal history? What brought you to Marxist philosophy? In 1948, when I was 30, I became a teacher of philosophy and joined the PCF. Philosophy was an interest; I ...

There has been one serious attempt to come to grips with the problems posed by Golding’s novels: in the February number of Twentieth Century for 1960 Ian Gregor & Mark Kirkard-Weekes published an ...

To read Robert Musil is to sense an approaching catastrophe. His narratives spiral downward from the daylight world of bourgeois conventions into the night of madness, the negativity of disorder, ...

‘It is clear that the seventeenth century—with a world-economy larger than it had been in the sixteenth—saw a new division of wealth, under the banner of a many-sided competition, unfettered by ...

For no political party is violence an end in itself, any more than non-violence could be an autonomous ‘categorical imperative’. These are only means, and between these means and the corresponding ...

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, ...

Walter Benjamin is related to this pattern not only by his personal links with most of the members of this complex network, but also because he concentrates in his life and thought all the ...

Historical materialism as a concept for understanding society, past, present and future, is under constant examination, by its adherents as much as by its opponents.footnote ＊ Some of these ...

In late spring 1979 Edwardes announced that 25,000 jobs were to be eliminated in bl. At the end of June rumours began to fly about the closure of Line 3 at Solihull. Then, before the summer holidays, ...