How is it that, for the first time to my knowledge, the charge of schematism can be levelled at the articles which l’Unità ...

Adom Getachew on Martin Thomas, The End of Empires. The violent history of twentieth-century decolonization, set in global ...

Tom Hazeldine on Tom McTague, Between the Waves. Story of the Powellite origins of Brexit, told by the New Statesman editor.

Emilie Bickerton introduces a selection from the intensive discussions that erupted after Tarkovsky’s first feature, Ivan’s ...

In 1943, at the height of the war against Nazism, Andrei Tarkovsky, the debut director of the Soviet film Ivan’s Childhood, ...

Often, when discussing new Soviet artistic and literary phenomena, there is a tendency to make them more intelligible by ...

‘As your jet starts its descent, you are glued to your window. The scene below is astonishing: a 24-square-mile archipelago of coral-coloured islands in the shape of an almost-finished puzzle of the ...

As a boy, I was fascinated by Sherlock Holmes.footnote 1 He took drugs, of course—very shocking—but he was extremely clever. I was struck by what he said to Watson, who was rather dim: ‘When you’re ...

In State and Revolution, Lenin quotes and then comments on a passage in Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Programme as follows: ‘“Equal right” [of everyone to an equal product of labour] we certainly do ...

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 ...

The Fed’s 23 March declaration that it intended to provide loans to non-financial corporations was decisive in indicating the Fed’s assumption of leadership of the government’s corporate bailout, ...

Il s’agit de gagner les intellectuels `la classe ouvrière, en leur faisant prendre conscience de l’identité de leurs dé-marches spirituelles et de leurs conditions de producteur. I hope I can promise ...