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

New Left Review analyses world politics, the global economy, state powers and protest movements; contemporary social theory, history, philosophy and culture.

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, ...

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 ...

Despite making some progress on green initiatives, Lula still seems determined to use fossil resources to drive development, ...

Gregory Elliott’s book appears at a time when the reputation of its subject seems near to total eclipse.footnote 1 In Althusser’s own country he is, as Elliott reports, practically a ‘dead dog’, ...

A blue-walled room blitzed by scraps. Some are in frames, others displayed under glass like pinned butterflies. A collection of ephemera, fragments and parentheses: Untitled (Presumed Self-Portrait); ...

Yet his adoptive family is so warm and loving that the lack, the ‘chasm’, torments him only intermittently. It’s surely ...

The elections of June 1971 in Iceland, which brought a self-proclaimed left-wing government to power, caused some initial alarm in imperialist circles. Iceland is a key outpost of nato, and us troops ...