Any analysis of the state of the Left in Britain must begin with an analysis of the nature of the Labour Party.footnote 1 For here is a mass party, based on an essentially undivided trade union ...

The narrative of Pax Aegyptiaca, seven millennia of civilization culminating with his ‘New Republic’, is part of the ...

The relationship between socialism and democracy has been a complex and a contested one. To large numbers of socialists it was axiomatic that their project, both the goal of socialism and the movement ...

The City in History, Lewis Mumford; Seeker & Warburg, 70s. Cities begin as accidents of geography, and end as the accretion in brick and stone of an entire civilisation. Faith petrifies in a spire, ...

During his first term as president, Trump vowed to focus primarily on the American people. Are we now, by contrast, ...

The only rational solution to this military situation was some kind of political deal between what would later be called the two superpowers. The deal struck is referred to by the symbolic name of ...

Marx was notoriously vague about future society. It is ironic, then, that in the minds of most laymen he is often associated with a very specific utopian vision. As anyone familiar with Marx’s works ...

Above all, the failed attempt to impeach Bonaparte stands at the centre of Marx’s pioneering reflections on what we have come to call ‘populism’, the contradictory political form at the heart of ...

In this paper, I want to tackle some of the underlying issues around ‘post-Marxism’ in contemporary social theory, using just one exemplar of this emerging framework, namely Michèle Barrett’s book The ...

Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s Hegemony and Socialist Strategy footnote 1 and Norman Geras’s lengthy review article (‘Post-Marxism’, nlr 163) raise issues which are at the heart of the ongoing ...