By Adam Dylan Hefty From Against the Current ON OCTOBER 8, 2018 twin disasters were announced on opposite sides of…
Myths of Ayn Rand
Phil Hearse(2009) Most people sympathetic to radical politics outside the United States have probably never heard of Ayn Rand, and…
Parliamentary action and social struggles – The experience of the Portuguese Left Bloc
By Francisco Louçã ,September 2018, from International Viewpoint The Left Bloc was formed about twenty years ago in Portugal, by the…
Surveillance capitalism – the pre-eminent business model of Silicon Valley
Keith A. Spence r- Znet Adapted from “A People’s History of Silicon Valley: How the Tech Industry Exploits Workers, Erodes…
The Twenty-First Century Left will be Anti-Capitalist
Enzo Traverso interviewed by Vincent Martign about the current state of the international left and its future prospects. How do you…
Algeria, Sudan…: The Seasons After the Arab Spring
GILBERT ACHCAR Recent uprisings in Sudan and Algeria have avoided mistakes of 2011. Images of popular protests that recall the…
Shipwreck of the Third Way: Tony Blair, New Labour and Inequality
PHIL HEARSE As a general election approaches, especially one which might lead to a Johnson or Johnson-Farage government, (and, less…
Crisis and Polarisation: analysing Labour’s meltdown
Phil Hearse and Neil Faulkner It is cold comfort that the Tories were smashed in the Euro elections. Because the Labour…
Debord and the Postmodern Turn: New Stages of the Spectacle
By Steven Best and Douglas Kellner (1997) “But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing…
The Left and Right in Latin America Today: An Interview with Claudio Katz
Interviewed by Jefferey Webber On May 5, 2019 I spoke with Argentine economist Claudio Katz in his Buenos Aires apartment.…