New Left Review 145, out now
Rational and irrational causes of war: Michael Mann sets Ukraine and Gaza in comparative-historical context.
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Civilizing the climate
How the French colonization of Canada was aided by the country’s brutal winters. -
Breath
‘Her mere presence made other people feel ill at ease, and on her agonising journey home, she realised that she could never be safe, comfortable or relax in the company of other people, and that she never really had, she thought; her true fragile self was suddenly back.’
A short story by Vigdis Hjorth, translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund
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Henri Lefebvre: Dogmatism in Reverse
Anti-Stalinist Communist, intellectual figure of May 68, Henri Lefebvre is re-read today as an ecosocialist thinker. His political quest for a balance between radicalism and mass movement is as relevant today as his thought, which is resistant to dogmatism. -
The Whitening of European Jews and the Misuse of Holocaust Memory
In the aftermath of the Holocaust and the formation of Israel, Jews' position in the Global North transformed from racialized minority into fully white members of "Judeo-Christian" society. As Gilbert Achcar shows in this essay, however, this assimilation into "super whiteness" relies on Jews placidly accepting their equation with Zionism and thus Israel's racist discrimination and violence against Arab Muslims.
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A Land Without Landlords: Nick Bano & Beth Stratford
Nick Bano and Beth Stratford discuss landlords, rentierism, and the British housing crisis. -
Karl Marx and Ecology: An Interview with Michael Löwy
While some ecologists remain critical of Marxism and skeptical about how much Marx can offer the environmental movement, Michael Löwy argues that Marx's writing can help us understand the relationship between nature, capitalism, and wealth formation. -
The States of the Earth Today: The War in Iraq and the Independence of Algeria
Twenty-one years ago, on March 19, 2003, the United States invaded Iraq. Forty-one years earlier, on March 19, 1962, France withdrew from Algeria. In this essay Mohamed Amer Meziane, author of The States of the Earth, explores what we can learn from these intertwined temporalities.
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The muscles of the colonized
Matthew Beaumont explores Ernst Bloch’s theory that posture and gait are a reliable guide to one’s relative state of social alienation or disalienation.
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There, and not there | Paradise Rot
The opening of Jenny Hval’s novel Paradise Rot sets the stage for an unsettling, uncanny story of blurred boundaries and a heady sexual awakening in an unfamiliar place. -
The split-subjects of the revolution
Revolutionary publishing has a long history in Iran. Often published anonymously, with blank spaces where the author's name should be, these came to be known as Jeld-sefid, or White-Covers. Here, Samaneh Moafi uncovers their history and there ongoing influence. -
After Pantin
In response to remarks they gave at an event in Paris earlier this month, Judith Butler has received hate mail while Zionist publications have attacked them. In this article, Butler defends and clarifies their position.
