Eighty years ago, in August 1940, Leon Davidovitch Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico by Ramon Mercader, a fanatical agent of the Stalinist GPU. In this article acclaimed historian and thinker Michael Löwy looks at his writing on revolutionary art and assesses their contemporary relevance.
On the 60th anniversary of Jean-Paul Sartre's key text on Marxism, Robert Boncardo shows us why it is still relevant, and urgently needed, today.
An interview with Etienne Balibar explores how concept and history drives his thinking of Marx
Barnaby Raine writes to mark the launch of a new class on Marx and his writing, as part of The Brooklyn Institute summer season
An interview with the sociologist Vivek Chibber on academic Marxism, anti-discrimination and workers' movement.
Enzo Traverso on 'the Revolt of Nature' and how COVID-19 forces us to reconsider the blurred relationship between politics, economics, society and biology.
An excerpt from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.
Jamie Allinson remembers Marxist historian, Neil Davidson, author of the groundbreaking How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? who died May 3, 2020.
On 31 January, at the Bourse du travail in Paris, Frédéric Lordon debated with Thomas Piketty on his book Capital and Ideology, at the invitation of Les Amis de L’Humanité. The following text is Frédéric Lordon's opening speech, with minimal revisions. Translated by David Fernbach
Announcing Spectre, a new journal of new, internationalist, Marxist-feminist, anti-racist analysis, strategy, and debate--a project that needs your help by May Day!
At a glance, the commodity is a product and a variety of use-values, but, if examined in greater depth, it is an ideational form that acts in excess of human volition precisely to restrict or constrain human beings, a form into which everything is enclosed.
On the 31st August, renowned sociologist and the inaugurator of world-systems analysis Immanuel Wallerstein died aged 88. In this, a seminal late work published here in English for the first time, Wallerstein traces the contours of of the Western left both in the past and its future. In doing so, he raises fundamental questions about the left's relationship with internationalism, and asks how the left can chart a new way forward in the twenty-first century.