In the face of a string of leftist successes in the Andes, with radical-populists elected in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, the Right can boast one spectacular triumph. Medellín, the most ...

Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s Hegemony and Socialist Strategy footnote 1 and Norman Geras’s lengthy review article (‘Post-Marxism’, nlr 163) raise issues which are at the heart of the ongoing ...

In this context the idea of a political culture, that one could acquire or not, is inconceivable. For it implies the ...

The decision to bestow the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature on the Chinese novelist Mo Yan raises once again the ticklish question of the patterns of distribution for these laurels at the global level.

Since the 18th century, British imperialism has maintained control over the principalities of the eastern and southern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula; but this imperialist hegemony is now dissolving.

Labour productivity took off, as farms came to resemble open-air factories. Given the limits to the growth of the demand for agricultural outputs, the sector then shed workers at an incredible pace.

Old Africa Rediscovered, Basil Davidson. Gollancz (25/-). ten years ago, I was walking along a valley floor in southern Tanganyika when I suddenly became aware that I was continually climbing and ...

Making’ handed out at Pierrot also recommends: ‘Consider keeping standards as high as possible’. Today, so many residually ...

An English version of Witold Kula’s book has been long overdue.footnote 1 Although its Italian translation has been available for some time, the book has not been as well known to western readers as ...

The family of Khalilullah Rezai occupies a special place in the tormented annals of Iran’s revolution. During the reign of the Shah, Mr Rezai’s children were actively involved in supporting the ...

On the protests in Iran.