The well-travelled life and consistently lucid, radical thought of global labour’s great comparative ethnographer—and social ...

Prior to the onset of the wave, a vast pool of capital lies idle, waiting for channels of profit and investment to open. Then ...

State bodies responsible for protecting public safety and the environment have been told that their primary focus must be ...

the most important events in the international socialist movement in 1960 took place in Cuba. And it may be that the most important event of 1961 will be the consolidation or overthrow of Cuba’s ...

I. From Briggs to Flint The original period of the cio ’s formation—1933–37—has been incomparably better studied than its wartime expansion; yet at the same time, the historiography of this heroic ...

I used to play basketball in Bavaria with a man born in the Ivory Coast. He had been adopted at the age of four by a white middle-class couple in Munich, both doctors. We fell in with each other ...

In his wonderful short text ‘Notes of a Publicist’—written in February 1922 when the Bolsheviks, after winning the Civil War against all odds, had to retreat into the New Economic Policy of allowing a ...

Three things have won conventional wars in this century; greater reserves of manpower, greater industrial potential and a reasonably functioning system of civilian administration. The strategy of the ...

A Tendency to Profit From a Fallen Theory Turning to Coates’ first underlying assumption, it is clearly beyond the scope of this essay to go into all the arguments for and against the theory of the ...

Fernando Claudin was a leader of the Spanish Communist Party until his expulsion in 1964, and is the author of the already classic The Communist Movement: from Comintern to Cominform. 1 The analysis ...