The lifetime of Auguste Blanqui (1805–81) coincides with the rise and fall of the secret society as an effective harbinger of socialism. Auguste Blanqui was the son of a low rank imperial official; ...

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

How might we reimagine freedom on an increasingly turbulent and resource-constrained planet? Charting a course between rival ...

NLR 153, May–June 2025. Includes articles by NLR Editors, Zhang Yongle, Michael Levien, Roberto Schwarz, Alyssa Battistoni, Aaron Benanav and Michael Burawoy ...

Iwrote the play as a way to reflect upon Brazil’s political crisis, which seemed at first to favour the left, before turning sharply to the right. 1 The realist impulse in this case was not of the ...

Winnism’s empiricist bulwarks The success of The End of History propelled Fukuyama to the highest levels of American para-state intellectual life, with prestigious posts at apex scholarly institutions ...

Ignoring Gaza Obama’s line towards Israel would be manifest even before he took office. On December 27, 2008, the idf launched an all-out air and ground assault on the population of Gaza. Bombing, ...

In the late 1980s, I was a member of a group called the Friends of Hong Kong. We were trying to see if there was any chance of negotiating a better deal for the territory as the date of its ...

2. definitions of well-being At this point, we need to unpack the idea of well-being. The idea of a steady-state or sustainable economy puts constraints on material throughput, but does not tell us ...

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 ...

The dpj is more of a broad umbrella grouping than a party. Founded in 1998, its adherents range from neo-liberal ‘modernizers’, represented by Hirano, Okada and Kitazawa, to a social-democratic ...