In the 19th century, the father of Italian Marxism was Labriola, who corresponded with Engels and Plekhanov. After the formation of the Third International, its historical centre became Gramsci. Both ...

The cinema of John Ford is rooted in history. He has steeped himself in those crucial periods of American history which have determined popular American consciousness: the colonization of the west, ...

Social welfare or the social services, operating through agencies, institutions and programs outside the private market, are becoming more difficult to define in any society with any precision. As ...

‘The article below was complete several weeks before the outbreak of the War. It was intended for our number which was to have greeted the planned Congress of the International. Like so much else this ...

Let’s dispose of some red herrings at the outset. First, I share virtually all the values and concerns of degrowth advocates. I agree that uncontrolled economic growth produces serious environmental ...

The idea of the primitive has long been a potent and highly influential current in British thought and history.footnote 1 In particular, the period 1918–30 saw primitivism established as an important ...

Laclau starts with a critique of Poulantzas’s theory of ideology, as developed in his book Fascism and Dictatorship.footnote 4 Although he sees Poulantzas’s work as a great advance over purely ...

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 ...

For the next fifty years, ‘Burma Proper’ was developed as an administrative adjunct to British India. Many hundreds of thousands of Indian immigrants, as well as Christianized Karens and Anglo-Burmans ...