The New Irrationalism
February 1, 2023
More than a century after the commencement of the Great Crisis of 1914–1945, represented by the First World War, the Great Depression, and Second World War, we are seeing a… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Fascism
NATO and the Long War on the Third World
January 1, 2023
Paweł Wargan is an organizer and researcher based in Berlin and the coordinator of the secretariat of the Progressive International. They say to me: Eat and drink. Be glad you… READ MORE
Obfuscation
April 1, 2022
A skillful con man leaves�no evidence. Instead each�paper trail is shredded, burned,�flushed down any convenient � toilet. Frump doesn’t need�to clean them, fix the plumbing.�Little people do that invisibly.�His past… READ MORE
In Line of Fire: The Korean Peninsula in U.S.-China Strategy
July 1, 2021
Tim Beal is a retired New Zealand academic who has written extensively on Asia with a special focus on the Korean Peninsula. Recent publications include the entry on Korea for… READ MORE
Nostalgia for what never was
May 1, 2021
My mother hated Stalin�but loved Trotsky. She had�no party affiliation, no friends�with whom to talk politics. � There was only me to listen.�Maybe it was because Trotsky�was Jewish. I don’t… READ MORE
History comes in bad cycles
April 1, 2021
I watched the insurrectionists assault�the capital with Trump flags, anti-Semitic�signs, gas masks, guns and enough�angry hatred to kill those they see � as enemies. War in the streets the man�in… READ MORE
The Brazilian Crisis and the New Authoritarianism
June 1, 2020
Lawfare Is the New Authoritarianism Anthony Robert Pahnke is an assistant professor of international relations at San Francisco State University. Marcelo Milan is an assistant professor of economics and international… READ MORE
German Deunification: Gerhard Schröder, Angela Merkel, and the Liberal Roots of German Neofascism
June 1, 2020
Ingar Solty is a Senior Research Fellow at the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung’s Institute for Critical Social Analysis in Berlin. He is the author and editor of several books, including Auf… READ MORE
Mystified Consciousness
March 1, 2020
Andy Merrifield is an independent scholar and the author of numerous books, including Dialectical Urbanism (Monthly Review Press, 2002), Magical Marxism (Pluto Press, 2011), The Amateur (Verso Books, 2018), and… READ MORE
