With a population well over a quarter of a billion, Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populous country after China, India and the us. Unlike its giant continental neighbours, though, Indonesia is ...

Many Soviet politicians have attracted the attention of the world’s press over the last ten years but very little has been said or written about Mikhail Suslov. He kept himself to the shadows, ...

The article by Karl Kautsky printed below is a singular text. It is well-known that Kautsky evolved a theory of ‘ultra-imperialism’, a supreme phase of capitalist development which would banish all ...

While many prominent writers influenced by Trotsky became historians, like Trotsky himself—Isaac Deutscher, C.L.R.James, Daniel Guerin, Pierre Broué—Mandel’s writings are more redolent of Rosa ...

Of course, there will be stupidities enough, and cliques of every kind too, but so long as it is possible to keep them within ...

Amid the recent outpouring of books and articles rehabilitating the purposes and practices of empire, two works have stood out for their unflinching scrutiny of British colonialism in Kenya. David ...

The traditional right-wing emphasis on law and order has an additional valence in today’s Chile, signifying not only the ...

Althusser was in general unforthcoming on biographical matters—personal questions about his history encountering a wary, although not blank response. The two main experiences of his youth were ...

According to Karatani, when Marx was faced with the opposition between classical political economy (Ricardo and his labour theory of value—the counterpart to philosophical rationalism) and the ...

Hearing of Weber’s death in 1920, many in the German academic community might have thought the news referred to Alfred Weber, Professor of Economics at the University of Heidelberg. While his elder ...

Iris Young and I seem to inhabit different worlds.footnote 1 In her world, there are no divisions between the social Left and the cultural Left. Proponents of cultural politics work cooperatively with ...