In the 1980s, E.P. Thompson dedicated much of his intellectual and political labor to the CND and other anti-nuclear causes. First published in New Left Review in 1980, "Notes on Exterminism" was Thompson's thoroughgoing effort to account for the challenges to socialist politics posed by the peace movement and the Second Cold War.
Alain Brossat and Alain Naze argues that every revolution involves storming the places of power. Surely, the insurrection by the alt-right on January 6th should not cause crocodile tears on the part of those who seek radical change?
Jacques Ranciere reflects on the end of the Trump presidency and asks how this decline into unreason reconstructed what democracy means
Peter E. Gordon questions what really caused the anti-democratic assault on the Capitol and whether we should call the President a fascist.
Jillian C. York, author of the forthcoming Silicon Values: the Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism, argues, in the aftermath of the assault on the Capitol, that users, not tech executives, should decide what constitutes free speech online.
Patrick Cockburn examines the threads between the pandemic and the media's coverage of age of endless war.
Greenhouse effect, global warming, climate change, climate disruption. Think of the succession of words we’ve used to describe the gradual onset of catastrophe and you see at once how inadequate words can be.
Attempts to identify Trump with fascism have proliferated across the political spectrum. In the latest number of New Left Review, Dylan Riley argues that the comparison serves rather to illuminate the specificity of today’s political situation – and the incoherence of Trump’s form of rule.
While the revival of reformist social democracy is cause for optimism, it cannot win a new world without mass pressure from below.
Ernest Mandel's biographer describes the Supreme Court decision that kept Mandel out of the United States — and set a precedent for the Muslim travel ban.
Comparisons between Trump's border regime and the Nazi genocide often obscure more than they reveal about white supremacy, past and present.
Peace activist Christine Ahn condemns the dangerous, opportunistic response to Trump's North Korea talks from American liberals.