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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
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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 […]
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Prabir Purkayastha – Oppenheimer Paradox: Power of Science and the Weakness of Scientists
Oppenheimer’s rise and fall shows how the scientists who were hailed for their role in the Manhatten Project were ultimately subordinates to the US’ military industrial complex Prabir Purkayastha is the founding editor of Newsclick. […]
Solutions
Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea, by Darrin M. McMahon
Book review by Branko Milanović, cross-posted from his blog. The ideological history of the idea of equality (“Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea”) is an ambitious, erudite and well-written book by Darrin M. McMahon. […]
National Politics
Ronan Burtenshaw: How the NHS was won
Interesting piece on the struggle which was required to establish the UK’s National Health Service, on its 75th anniversary. Read the article HERE.