The anatomy of Britain on the edge of Brexit by Orwell Prize winning journalistIn March 2019, the UK will leave the EU, facing an unpredictable future. Since the referendum in 2016, the nation has bee
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The Situationist International (SI), led by the revolutionary Guy Debord, were active throughout the 1950s and 60s. They published the journal Internationale Situationniste that included many incendi
In History and Revolution,a group of respected historians confronts the conservative, revisionisttrends in historical enquiry that have been dominant in the last twentyyears. Ranging from an explorat
Edward Thompson, perhaps the greatest post-war historian in the English-speaking world, died in 1993. In this readable and unabashedly appreciative survey of Thompson’s histories and politics, Byran D
Vivid account and reflection on two struggles that are at the heart of the contestation of neoliberal technocracy and the stateAt a time of ever more accelerated and expanded development of natural an
Dai Jinhua is one of contemporary China's most influential theoreticians and cultural critics. A feminist Marxist, her literary, film and TV commentary has, over the last decade, addressed an expandi
One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, iek shows why Lenin’s thought is still important todayV. I. Lenin’s originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most
One of the world’s leading radical philosophers analyses the failure of the Syriza experience in GreeceIn a series of seven trenchant interventions Alain Badiou analyses the decisive development
Magisterial account of the ideas and the figures who have forged the American Empire.Since the birth of the nation, impulses of empire have been close to the heart of the United States. How these urge
Philology cross-examines Freud in this sustained critique of psychoanalysis and its foundational notion of the slip. Challenging virtually every account of linguistic error in Freud's work as arbitra
With characteristic rigor and readability, Avi Shlaim reflects on a rangeof key issues, transformations and personalities in the Israel-Palestineconflict. From the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the fai
The alliance of critical theory between Frankfurt and ParisAdorno, Foucault and the Critique of the West argues that critical theory continues to offer valuable resources for critique and contestation
