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Corey Robin – Without End
Obituary to historian Arno Mayer, who was never shy to take on the big questions. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.
History
EU politics
Duncan Wheeler – Basque Separatists ETA Set a Car Bomb That Helped Build Spanish Democracy
On this day in 1973, Basque separatists ETA assassinated far-right prime minister Luis Carrero Blanco. The action played an important role in ending Franco’s dictatorship — an inconvenient truth for the democratic Spain against which […]
EU politics
Ramzy Baroud – Not Hamas-Israeli Conflict: The Palestinian Cause Belongs to the World
Israel succeeded in isolating the Palestinians from the Arab world. For any possibility of justice for the Palestinians, that isolation must now end. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. […]
EU politics
Claire Squires, Beth Driscoll – Frankfurt book fair: cancelled prize ceremony for Palestinian author is part of a long history of political zigzagging
The history of the Frankfurt book fair is a reminder that hypocrisy and cowardice among cultural gatekeepers is not a new phenomenon. Claire Squires is Professor of Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling. Beth […]
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Branko Milanović – The red bourgeoisie
The Soviet ruling classes are insufficiently studied and known. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is “Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World”. His […]
Solutions
George Kerevan – Venceremos: The lessons of Chile 50 years on
The test of a workers’ government, like the one of Salvador Allende in Chile 50 years ago, is whether it propels the movement of workers’ and peasants forwards or backwards. George Kerevan is a Scottish […]
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Branko Marcetic: Salvador Allende was in Washington’s crosshairs
Fifty years on, more details on the US role in overthrowing Salvador Allende’s socialist government are being uncovered. Among the latest revelations: Richard Nixon knew that the 1973 coup was going to happen days before […]
EU politics
George Kerevan – How the SNP was seduced by the EU’s fake internationalism
The history of the Scottish National Party’s trajectory from arch-critics of the EU in the 1970s to arch-sycophants today. George Kerevan is a Scottish journalist and economist, and a former SNP MP. Cross-posted from Conter […]
Media
Ramzy Baroud – ‘Bread and Circuses’: Musk, Zuckerberg and the Art of Distraction
The use of entertainment as a population control mechanism. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of five books. His latest is “These Chains Will Be […]
Corruption
Binoy Kampmark – Looting the looters: Theft at the British Museum
The pilfering of the British Museum, which contains objects stolen from all over the world in the times of colonial plunder, is a curious tale. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He […]