Networked transnational campaigns by social movements are not necessarily threatening; in some places, including Mexico, they ‘may even have some positive consequences, especially for spurring social ...

But to understand why the Congolese state is weak, it is necessary to take a more expansive view – such as that of Jason ...

Even if there were not a single true train of thought in Jan Kott’s collection of essays, it would still remain my favourite book on Shakespeare.footnote 1 Kott’s technical erudition is impressive, ...

Drug violence and the Mexican state.

They do not see that Lenin in America will appear in Jeffersonian guise. The American Lenin will deploy the ideas of ...

‘The teaching of South American myths serves to provide general laws for the resolution of problems concerning the nature and development of thought.’ Claude Lévi-Strauss, Mythologiques II. ‘Those who ...

From 1968, when you were the first person to be tried and sentenced after the Soviet invasion, right up to the present, when you were one of the last to be released from prison in November 1989, you ...

Iwas born in Hong Kong in 1956. My family had come from Guangdong in the early 1940s—my father was an artisan, making small ornaments and the like. He came from the city of Foshan, which was known ...

To the town of Ludwigshafen, its mayor, Mr Wolfgang Schulte, and the Ernst Bloch Institute, my warmest thanks for the honour I have been awarded, which associates my own name with that of one of the ...

Pictures of bright-eyed African children and smiling women in saris bedeck the World Bank’s website. ‘Our dream is a world free of poverty’, it proclaims, pledging to commit the Bank’s ‘financial ...

The same explicative schema is again to be found during the Resistance: the pcf is a revolutionary party, but before dreaming about socialism, national independence must be regained, collaborators ...

Feminist writing since the crisis has notably targeted the collusion of gender politics with corporate capitalism. Though liberal feminism still commands the mediasphere, new theoretical work has ...