The ouster of West Bengal’s Communist government after 34 years in power is no less of a watershed for having been widely predicted. For more than a generation the Party had shaped the culture, ...

The birth of the women’s liberation movement was the result of a unique and sharply polarized political conjuncture, between the years 1968 and 1975, which had a radicalizing effect throughout the ...

The existence of Rojava as a semi-autonomous space, with global symbolic resonance – for women’s liberation, unprecedented in ...

Criticism and Ideology is the first major study in Marxist literary theory to be written in England in forty years—that is an important part of its distinction. It is also, Eagleton would add, the ...

The Popular Front is best known in the non-Arab world for its hijackings in September 1970. A lot of criticisms of the hijackings have been made. Some of these are bourgeois criticisms. But there are ...

The aesthetic method of Critique of Taste is a variant of the method of logical analysis outlined in Logica come scienza positiva (1950). There Della Volpe claimed to fight a theoretical battle on two ...

Seventy years after his death in 1930, a full biography of Paul Levi is still awaited. In English, the material available on him is scant indeed. Yet the most basic facts of his life, cut short in ...

One of cinema’s first images is of workers leaving a factory. The young women come out first, in their long dresses and summer hats. It is the end of their day, they look delighted, they link arms ...

Class-divided societies have almost always been governed politically by a small minority. In general, this chosen few is a small group even in relation to the ‘ruling class’ itself, in the Marxist ...

Before proceeding with this review,footnote ＊ I should, as they say, declare an interest. I came to know Harold Laski as a student at the London School of Economics (then evacuated in Cambridge) ...

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 ...