The well-travelled life and consistently lucid, radical thought of global labour’s great comparative ethnographer—and social ...

Interview with the Brazilian critic and theorist on the literary and political ideas informing his epic play, Queen Lira. A ...

Ignoring Gaza Obama’s line towards Israel would be manifest even before he took office. On December 27, 2008, the idf launched an all-out air and ground assault on the population of Gaza. Bombing, ...

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 ...

2. definitions of well-being At this point, we need to unpack the idea of well-being. The idea of a steady-state or sustainable economy puts constraints on material throughput, but does not tell us ...

the most important events in the international socialist movement in 1960 took place in Cuba. And it may be that the most important event of 1961 will be the consolidation or overthrow of Cuba’s ...

‘Top-down leadership’ The first reaction in Washington was astonishment that, as one old ‘Japan hand’ put it, the dpj ‘seems to really mean’ its radical agenda. footnote 4 The Hatoyama government ...

T o what extent can the situation of the Latin American republics be likened to that of other semi-colonial nations? footnote 1 Their economic position is undoubtedly semi-colonial; and as native ...

Robert Gordon’s Rise and Fall of American Growth offers a vast narrative, encompassing some 150 years of us economic history since 1870, with prospective views up to 2040 or so. 1 The conclusion is ...

Eagleton’s Overview. Eagleton’s essay is predominantly an assessment of the ‘first group’ of Williams’s work. He omits to mention three of the five latest books altogether. footnote 11 The studies of ...

No European statesman of the last century enjoys so exalted a reputation in his homeland as Charles de Gaulle. Of his contemporaries, Adenauer and Macmillan were, by contrast, middling figures.

in 1954 I was an enlisted man in the United States Marine Corps. As a Negro in an integrated unit that was overwhelmingly white, I shall never forget the evening we were lounging in the recreation ...