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Tariq Ali ( @TariqAli_News ) on the uprising in Palestine: 'Israel is a nuclear state, armed to the teeth by the US. Its existence is not under threat. It’s the Palestinians, their lands, their lives, that are.'

Tariq Ali, Uprising in Palestine — Sidecar

Gaza versus apartheid.

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Ilan Pappé predicts the collapse of the Zionist project:

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Now free to read:

Haim Haneghi, Moshe Machover & Akiva Orr, The Class Nature of Israeli Society, NLR I/65, January–...

Israeli society, like all other class societies, contains conflicting social interests—class interests which give rise to an internal class struggle. Yet Israeli society as a whole has been engaged,...

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'The legitimacy of the power structure has collapsed; it is now nothing more than a coercive bloc. Having demolished all other mediations, the autocrat is separated from the people only by a police line.' Frédéric Lordon on the French uprising:

Frédéric Lordon, The French Uprising — Sidecar

Macronism in peril.

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Lorna Finlayson ( @LJFinlayson ) on academics and the plight of higher education: 'The uncomfortable truth is that academics have been complicit, and often instrumental, in bringing about the present predicament.'

Lorna Finlayson, The Sycophant — Sidecar

On academics.

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Mike Davis writes for Sidecar on the global conjuncture. 'Everyone is quoting Gramsci on the interregnum, but that assumes that something new will be or could be born. I doubt it. I think what we must diagnose instead is a ruling class brain tumour.'

Mike Davis, Thanatos Triumphant — Sidecar

Does hegemony require a grand design?

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'Mainstream Zionism sought a mono-ethnic Jewish state from the start. Its leaders knew their goal required expulsion of Arabs, and had no qualms about "transfer"—ethnic cleansing.' Perry Anderson, 'The House of Zion':

Perry Anderson, The House of Zion, NLR 96, November–December 2015

The fate of the Palestinians and the fortunes of Israel, after fifty years of occupation, and American and European collusion with it. Realities behind the official tropes decorating a ‘two-state...

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Fredric Jameson writes on Jean-Luc Godard. ‘If cinema really is dying, then he died with it; or better still, it died with him.’

Fredric Jameson, Concerning Godard — Sidecar

1930-2022.

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'Genocide, ethnic cleansing and a second Nakba are not acts of God. They can be prevented. Our governments have so far refused to raise objections. Let us remind them of the costs of their complicity.' Sai Englert in Sidecar:

Sai Englert, Impending Genocide — Sidecar

Can we stop the Israeli war machine?

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‘On any realistic assessment, international law is neither truthfully international nor genuinely law.’ In the latest NLR, Perry Anderson writes on the history, theory and practice of a powerful hegemonic instrument:

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Perry Anderson on the history, theory and practice of international law: 'As an ideological force at the service of the hegemon and its allies, it is a formidable instrument of power.'

Perry Anderson, The Standard of Civilization, NLR 143, September–October 2023

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For Sidecar, Ilan Pappé on six reasons why Zionism is collapsing: 'A slow process of disintegration can gather momentum and then, in a short period of time, bring down structures that once appeared solid and steadfast.'

Ilan Pappé, The Collapse of Zionism — Sidecar

Six signs of breakdown.

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'Inevitably, journalists have described the succession drama as "Shakespearean". If there’s a ghost haunting this feast of cliches, it is probably a starving Gazan.' Tim Barker ( @_TimBarker ) on the intra-elite conflict in Washington:

Tim Barker, Washingtonology — Sidecar

After the debate.

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'That Biden could only be moved to pity by a war crime that personally affected the man who introduced tapas to Washington speaks volumes about the moral bankruptcy of his administration.' Richard Beck ( @Richard__Beck ) on Bidenism Abroad:

Richard Beck, Bidenism Abroad, NLR 146, March–April 2024

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Today in Sidecar, Mike Davis on the Capitol Hill riots and the realignment of the Republican Party. 'What was essentially a big biker gang, dressed as circus performers and war-surplus barbarians, stormed the ultimate country club.'

Mike Davis, Riot on the Hill — Sidecar

Post-Trump Republican realignments get underway.

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A previously untranslated essay by Mario Tronti (1931-2023): ‘It is only with the weapon of political irony that these days one can combat the tragic seriousness of history.’

Mario Tronti, A Message From the Emperor — Sidecar

Reflections on post-communism.

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One of NLR’s greatest contributors, Tom Nairn (1932-2023), has died peacefully at home with his partner, Millicent Petrie, after a fall on Jan 21.

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"The ‘magic’ of our monarchs is the sweet odour of decay arising from a mountainous dunghill of unfinished bourgeois business. The exaggerated popularity they enjoy is one manifestation of a nation which turned its back on progress generations ago."

Tom Nairn, The House of Windsor, NLR I/127, May–June 1981

Genuine socialists have always detested the Windsor monarchs. They appear to confront a nation sucked into helpless crown-worship, without a single ounce of decent republicanism in its make-up. While...

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Frédéric Lordon on the war in Gaza: ‘To dominate without bearing the stain of evil: this is perhaps the ultimate fantasy of the dominant.’

Frédéric Lordon, End of Innocence — Sidecar

Gaza and fantasy.

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Alberto Toscano remembers Antonio Negri: ‘At the core of Negri’s life and work was the idea that philosophy is inseparable from a practice of collective liberation…’

Alberto Toscano, A Communist Life — Sidecar

Antonio Negri (1933-2023).

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Perry Anderson on the history, theory and pratice of international law as a hegemonic instrument: 'What they forbade others, the liberal powers reserved the freedom to do themselves.'

Perry Anderson, The Standard of Civilization, NLR 143, September–October 2023

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Richard Seymour ( @leninology ) on Starmer's majority without a mandate: 'Few governments have been this fragile coming into office. There will be no honeymoon.'

Richard Seymour, Majority Without a Mandate — Sidecar

Elections in the UK.

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Tariq Ali ( @TariqAli_News ) on Gaza's fightback: 'Palestinians know that the fascist elements of the Israeli state would have no compunction about sanctioning the mass murder of Arabs. And they know this must be resisted by any means necessary.'

Tariq Ali, Uprising in Palestine — Sidecar

Gaza versus apartheid.

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Anton Jäger ( @AntonJaegermm ) on Todd Field's 'Tár': 'The film's reception exposed a Weltanschauung increasingly helpless in the face of artistic ambiguity: the "intolerance of ambivalence" that Freud once saw as the hallmark of the neurotic personality.'

Anton Jäger, Plenipotentiary — Sidecar

On ‘Tár’ and its reception.

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How far did Britain’s class structure alter in the sixties, with the onset of the ‘affluent society’? In this text from 1963, published for the first time in English, Eric Hobsbawm supplies a mordant panorama of the nation’s shifting habits and customs:

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'Does hegemony require a grand design? In a world where a thousand gilded oligarchs, billionaire sheikhs and Silicon deities rule the human future, we should not be surprised to discover that greed breeds reptilian minds.'

Mike Davis, Thanatos Triumphant — Sidecar

Does hegemony require a grand design?

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Sidecar, the NLR blog, covers the same range as the journal — international politics, world capitalism, culture and ideas — but at higher speed and shorter length.

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'They are putting the rest of us on notice: If we can do this to Ken Loach, a man who has spent his life championing the victims of oppression, racism and discrimination, imagine what we shall do to you.'

Yanis Varoufakis, In Defence of Ken Loach — Sidecar

The smear campaign against the great radical director must be resisted.

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Ilan Pappé on the Israeli protests: 'Liberal Zionism is founded on a series of oxymorons: enlightened occupation, benevolent ethnic cleansing, progressive apartheid. Thanks to Netanyahu’s government, these contradictions can no longer be contained.'

Ilan Pappé, Fantasies of Israel — Sidecar

Can the Zionist project survive?

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Alyssa Battistoni ( @alybatt ) on Bruno Latour: 'Latour’s relationship to the left had long been fraught, if not entirely unsatisfactory to either: Latour enjoyed antagonizing the left; in turn, many leftists loved to hate Latour.'

Alyssa Battistoni, Latour’s Metamorphosis — Sidecar

1947-2022.

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'A return to the anti-colonial tradition of Said, Césaire, Fanon and Biko is necessary to counter Palestinian "neo-nationalism"'. Alberto Toscano on visions of decolonization:

Alberto Toscano, Undoing Oslo — Sidecar

Visions of decolonization.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum writes on Jean-Marie Straub. 'Godard and Straub-Huillet remained comrades-in-arms for well over half a century, effectively serving as the two most imposing pillars of cinematic modernism in Western Europe.’

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Rural Sensualist — Sidecar

Jean-Marie Straub (1933-2022).

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Dominique Routhier ( @docteur_en_rien ) on Bruno Latour: 'Latour’s ecologism resembles macronisme, in holding that ideas, through their persuasive power alone, can surmount political divisions and win support from across the social spectrum.'

Dominique Routhier, Reactionary Ecology — Sidecar

On Bruno Latour’s ‘ecological class’.

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3 years

'The death drive works, Freud says, "in silence". Yet the prompt of psychoanalysis is to ask that we try to speak anyway, however impossible the address.' Alex Colston ( @re_colston ) writes for Sidecar on the psychosocial fallout of the pandemic.

Alex Colston, Eros After Covid — Sidecar

Freudian prescriptions for a post-pandemic world.

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For Sidecar, Richard Seymour ( @leninology ) on the UK riots: 'Lacking the utopian horizon of an interwar fascism based on colonial expansion, today’s far right has become obsessed with bordering. It has retreated to a defensive nation-statism.'

Richard Seymour, Dreaming of Downfall — Sidecar

Riots in the UK.

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'How did the Spanish left move from a position of strength – aspiring to "overthrow the regime of 78" – to one of weakness, if outright defeat, over the past ten years?' Brais Fernández ( @BraisRomanino ) on the dynamics behind Spain's elections:

Brais Fernández, The Spanish Impasse — Sidecar

Prospects for ‘progressivism’.

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Cédric Durand ( @cedric_durand ) responds to @adam_tooze . ‘A smooth transition beyond carbon is no longer an option. There is no Pareto-efficient way of eradicating fossil fuel use in a timeframe compatible with the prevention of climate disorders.

Cédric Durand, Zero-Sum Game — Sidecar

Adam Tooze and the ‘energy dilemma’.

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For Sidecar, Rob Lucas ( @roblucas ) on the history and politics of machine learning: 'Capitalist production always involved an alienation of knowledge; and the mechanization of intelligence was always embedded in the division of labour.'

Rob Lucas, Unlearning Machines — Sidecar

AI and alienation.

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The new issue of NLR is now online! Featuring previously unpublished New Left texts by Hobsbawm, Miliband, Wollen and Williams. Plus Lola Seaton on political capitalism, Nathan Sperber on China, and Perry Anderson on Giorgio Fanti:

NLR 147, May–June 2024

NLR 147, May–June 2024. Includes articles by Tony Wood, Owen Hatherley, Cédric Durand, Radhika Desai, Rebecca Lossin, Grey Anderson, Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Rashid Khalidi

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For Sidecar, Tariq Ali ( @TariqAli_News ) dismantles the tropes of the anti-Russian warmongers. 'The commentariat’s cry – "no sphere of influence for Russia!" – neglects to add that this is because the US presumes to command a global sphere.'

Tariq Ali, News from Natoland — Sidecar

The campaign for war with Russia.

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Thomas Meaney on the seventieth anniversary of Điện Biên Phủ: 'The communist state daringly – and brilliantly – implemented land reform at the height of its conflict with the French, in order to fully mobilize the peasant class.'

Thomas Meaney, The Winning Side — Sidecar

Điện Biên Phủ, seventy years on.

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Oliver Nachtwey ( @onachtwey ) on the 'left-conservatism' of Sahra Wagenknecht: 'Wagenknechtism is simply a new form of Bonapartism, seeking to represent the passive and reactionary sections of the lower and middle classes.'

Oliver Nachtwey, Sovereign Virtues? — Sidecar

Debating Sahra Wagenknecht.

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For Sidecar, @yanisvaroufakis writes on resisting the smear campaign against Ken Loach. 'It is a delicious irony that those who have tried the hardest to rid our souls of racism are hurt the most when accused of these prejudices.'

Yanis Varoufakis, In Defence of Ken Loach — Sidecar

The smear campaign against the great radical director must be resisted.

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For Sidecar, Ussama Makdisi ( @UssamaMakdisi ) on 'the Palestine exception': 'Unlike every other case of Western settler-colonization, the oppression of Palestinians has outlasted the mainstreaming of concepts like "human rights" and "racial equality".'

Ussama Makdisi, Overwriting Palestine — Sidecar

The complicity of the academy.

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'The weakening of the economy and hardening of authoritarianism are not easily reversible trends. They are the logical outcome of China's uneven development and capital accumulation over the last four decades.' Ho-fung Hung ( @hofunghung ) in Sidecar:

Ho-fung Hung, Zombie Economy — Sidecar

China’s long-brewing crisis.

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‘The profit motive that lies at the root of exponential growth has to be spiked at every turn.’ Amid global discontent and economic collapse, @profdavidharvey rereads Marxian value theory to locate an escape route.

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In the last decade, the classroom has replaced the boardroom as the terrain of feminist analysis. The risks of this manoeuvre are evident in Amia Srinivasan’s book, which generalises outwards from the university. @caitdoherty on 'The Right to Sex'.

Caitlín Doherty, Quad of Mirrors — Sidecar

On Amia Srinivasan’s campus feminism.

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For Sidecar, Owen Hatherley's special feature on the changing faces of London transport. 'Crossrail is a gentrification superhighway, and a line which finally makes getting into town more bearable for working-class people.'

Owen Hatherley, Crossed Rails — Sidecar

On London’s transport network.

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NLR 144 is now online! Featuring Alexander Zevin on Gaza and NYC, Loïc Wacquant on Afropessimism, Hito Steyerl on Gramsci and AI, plus much more:

NLR 144, November–December 2023

NLR 144, November–December 2023. Includes articles by Leo Robson, Oliver Eagleton, Francis Mulhern, Serge Halimi, Hito Steyerl, Alexander Zevin, Patricia McManus, Saul Nelson, Loic Wacquant and Cihan...

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'In Britain, all those who want to fight on must shift their focus to the refugees who will soon be knocking on NATO’s door. At the very least, refuge is what the West owes them: a minor reparation for an unnecessary war.' Tariq Ali in Sidecar:

Tariq Ali, Debacle in Afghanistan — Sidecar

The end of NATO’s forever war.

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'In Sweden and Finland, we can see what "joining the West" really means: binding oneself to a US-led power bloc while doing away with any nominally socialist institutions – a process that has already been underway for decades.' @lilyslynch for Sidecar:

Lily Lynch, Joining the West — Sidecar

The Natoization of Sweden and Finland.

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For Sidecar, Anton Jäger ( @AntonJaegermm ) responds to Richard Seymour on the UK riots: 'Beneath British pogromism lies a universe of misery which it is the left’s historic task to negate.'

Anton Jäger, Into the Void — Sidecar

Explaining British pogromism.

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Writing in NLR, Michael Hart & Antonio Negri return to the theses of Empire, twenty years on: 'Just as today’s Empire was formed in response to the insurgencies of the multitudes from below, so too, potentially, it could fall to them.'

Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, Empire, Twenty Years On, NLR 120, November–December 2019

If Empire was, for many, the signature text for the age of globalization, how do its theses fare now, in an era of rising nationalism and protracted crisis? In a landmark update, the authors examine...

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Naomi Hossain ( @nomhossain ) contextualizes the unrest in Bangladesh: 'The Awami League has had unprecedented success in fusing with the state apparatus – the bureaucracy, security forces, judiciary – while also co-opting civil society and big business.'

Naomi Hossain, Bloody July — Sidecar

Unrest in Bangladesh.

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'The climate left does not lack for utopian imaginaries, which can make for enjoyable exercises. But such utopianism can too easily avoid the material realities of the world as it exists.' @Matthuber78 on degrowth and half-earth socialism:

Matt Huber, Mish-Mash Ecologism — Sidecar

Biden and the eco-socialists.

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Camila Vergara ( @Camila_Vergara ) on today’s vote in Chile: ‘Chileans choose between a far-right Pinochet apologist and a social democrat – not between ‘two extremists’ offering different variants of populism.’

Camila Vergara, Chilean Stalemate? — Sidecar

A bleak choice for the electorate.

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McKenzie Wark ( @mckenziewark ) on Sylvère Lotringer of @SemiotextePress . ‘How prescient it was that Lotringer worked his whole life against the embers of fascism of which commodification is not the liberal extinguisher but the accelerant.’

McKenzie Wark, Theory Daddy — Sidecar

Sylv��re Lotringer (1938-2021).

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For Sidecar, Alberto Toscano on the latest work by Adam Curtis. ‘The effort to trace the mood rather than the origins or structure of our present leaves an aesthetic of explanation – the capture of emotion without the current of history.’

Alberto Toscano, Dreamworlds of Catastrophe — Sidecar

On the latest documentary by Adam Curtis.

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Perry Anderson on 1914 and 1848: 'A deeper structural feature of capitalism, long preceding the emergence of trusts, converted economic competition between firms into military conflicts between states. That was uneven development.'

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‘This year will be remembered as the moment when global capitalism was reorganized beyond neoliberalism, a tectonic shift that will irrevocably alter the terrain of political struggle.’ Cédric Durand on the dynamics of the Biden era.

Cédric Durand, 1979 in Reverse — Sidecar

Biden breaks with neoliberalism.

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NLR 130 is now online! Featuring @GuilhermeBoulos on Brazil's struggle of the roofless; @mayadadol on the cinema of Lav Diaz; @profdavidharvey on capital's fundamental contradiction, plus much more.

NLR 147, May–June 2024

NLR 147, May–June 2024. Includes articles by Tony Wood, Owen Hatherley, Cédric Durand, Radhika Desai, Rebecca Lossin, Grey Anderson, Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Rashid Khalidi

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Want to understand the #LabourLeaks ? Read Tom Nairn's magisterial analysis of the Labour Party.

Tom Nairn, The Nature of the Labour Party (Part I), NLR I/27, September–October 1964

The British Labour Party is obviously one of the greatest political forces of the capitalist world. With its six million and more members, it is by far the largest of social-democratic parties. The...

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NLR 139 is now online! Featuring Perry Anderson on Mike Davis and Tom Nairn; André Singer on Brazil; Cecilia Rikap on digital monopolies; and Matthew Karp ( @karpmj ) on US politics, plus much more:

NLR 147, May–June 2024

NLR 147, May–June 2024. Includes articles by Tony Wood, Owen Hatherley, Cédric Durand, Radhika Desai, Rebecca Lossin, Grey Anderson, Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Rashid Khalidi

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'Modernism is an unfinished project, not a dead one. We have the ruins from which our new Jerusalem may be rebuilt.' Esther Leslie ( @afoggyplace ) on the life and work of Owen Hatherley ( @owenhatherley ):

Esther Leslie, Remnants of Utopia — Sidecar

Owen Hatherley’s retrospective essays.

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Tomorrow at 5pm ET—join this online teach-in with Mike Davis, sponsored by @haymarketbooks and @VersoBooks .

Capitalism Is the Disease: Mike Davis on the Coronavirus Crisis

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What the Economist doesn't tell you @adam_tooze on NLR editor @zevin_a 's Liberalism at Large.

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Caitlin Doherty ( @caitdoherty ) on the limits of contemporary feminism: ‘Feminism has no absolute right to existence. It must describe something about the world accurately for it to make sense as a political-philosophical position.’

Caitlín Doherty, A Feminist Style — Sidecar

Womanhood, suffering, writing?

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'The recent protest wave has highlighted Israel’s fundamental paradox: it cannot be both democratic and Jewish. It will either be a racist Jewish state, or a democratic one for all its citizens. There is no middle ground.' Ilan Pappé in Sidecar:

Ilan Pappé, Fantasies of Israel — Sidecar

Can the Zionist project survive?

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Rob Lucas ( @roblucas ) on the geology of capitalist social forms. ‘The mine was at that point the primary means for the development of geological knowledge – and, it turned out, even its labour process could supply a model of deep, structured time.’

Rob Lucas, Fossil Labour — Sidecar

Archaeology of the Capitalocene.

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Terry Eagleton on the new work by Raymond Geuss: ‘If Geuss were less suspicious of what he calls "world views", he might acknowledge that one at least of them offers a more dialectical assessment of liberalism than he is willing to countenance.’

Terry Eagleton, Anti-Liberal — Sidecar

On Raymond Geuss.

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'Putin’s belief that he could build a Russian capitalism structurally interconnected with that of the West, but operationally independent of it—a predator among predators, yet a predator capable of defying them—was always an ingenuous delusion.'

Perry Anderson, Incommensurate Russia, NLR 94, July–August 2015

With the collisions over Ukraine, the contradictions in Russia’s relations with the West have been sharpened by sanctions and economic crisis. Perry Anderson on the spectre of Great Power status that...

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Introducing Sidecar, the new NLR blog! Our opening lineup features @TariqAli_News on Starmer's purge; @sophiepinkhmmm on Stalin's final ceremony; @majapearce on Ivoirian elections; Wolfgang Streeck on NATO; and @PinningtonN on Annie Ernaux. Read now!

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Sidecar, the NLR blog, covers the same range as the journal — international politics, world capitalism, culture and ideas — but at higher speed and shorter length.

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One year on, Mike Davis on the Capitol Hill riot:

Mike Davis, Riot on the Hill — Sidecar

Post-Trump Republican realignments get underway.

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'The demand for one state is now the best Palestinian option available. That it should be dismissed with such vehemence by Zionist and Scurrier spokesmen alike is evidence enough of that.' Perry Anderson in NLR 96.

Perry Anderson, The House of Zion, NLR 96, November–December 2015

The fate of the Palestinians and the fortunes of Israel, after fifty years of occupation, and American and European collusion with it. Realities behind the official tropes decorating a ‘two-state...

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'Castillo's removal will not change the dynamics that create Peruvian political instability: parties that operate as kleptocratic machines, divided branches of government, and the conflict between fujimorismo and its opponents'. @paulodrinot in Sidecar:

Paulo Drinot, After Castillo — Sidecar

On Peru’s political crisis.

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NLR 147 is now online! Featuring Rashid Khalidi & Tariq Ali on Palestine, Tony Wood on Mexico, Radhika Desai on India, Cédric Durand on Brett Christophers and Owen Hatherley on Andy Beckett, plus much more:

NLR 147, May–June 2024

NLR 147, May–June 2024. Includes articles by Tony Wood, Owen Hatherley, Cédric Durand, Radhika Desai, Rebecca Lossin, Grey Anderson, Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Rashid Khalidi

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'At leadership level, a significant part of the Labour left made a conscious decision not to challenge the false narrative about antisemitism that was gradually constructed from 2015 onwards.' Daniel Finn ( @DanFinn95 ) on the campaign against Corbyn:

Daniel Finn, False Compromise — Sidecar

Antisemitism and the Labour left.

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For NLR, Perry Anderson on Christopher Clark's pathbreaking accounts of World War One and 1848:

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NLR 128 is now live! Featuring Susan Watkins on the new Keynesianism; Georgi Derluguian on Nagorno Karabagh; @AntonJaegermm on Anglo-Belgian inequalities; and @davies_will on the politics of recognition in the age of platform capitalism.

NLR 147, May–June 2024

NLR 147, May–June 2024. Includes articles by Tony Wood, Owen Hatherley, Cédric Durand, Radhika Desai, Rebecca Lossin, Grey Anderson, Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Rashid Khalidi

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Leo Robson ( @leorobsonwriter ) on Fredric Jameson: 'Jameson is primarily an appreciator, defined by flexibility, freedom from inherited hierarchies and snobberies, and the capacity for surprise.'

Leo Robson, Jameson after Post Critique, NLR 144, November–December 2023

Radical literary theory has defined itself in opposition to a ‘historical-contextual’ approach said to be exemplified by Fredric Jameson. Is this a misreading? Leo Robson on the author of The...

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For Sidecar, Alberto Toscano on visions of decolonizing Palestine: '"Oslo" names a form of false consciousness that afflicts Palestine’s political elites, who have been defanged, coopted, NGOised and corrupted by the the Accords.'

Alberto Toscano, Undoing Oslo — Sidecar

Visions of decolonization.

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For Sidecar, Owen Hatherley on Beatles nostalgia: 'What is McCartney trying to find in his cybernetic journeys into the past?'

Owen Hatherley, Studio Trickery — Sidecar

The ‘new’ ‘last’ ‘Beatles’ single.

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In this Sidecar special, @DanFinn95 surveys the fabricated 'antisemitism crisis' and the strategic failure of the Labour left. 'The political field is littered with the corpses of those who were only too anxious to retreat under fire.'

Daniel Finn, False Compromise — Sidecar

Antisemitism and the Labour left.

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'The classics of Western thought are today studied more extensively in China than in the West, for it is in these very texts – Plato, Aristotle – that China looks for ways of interpreting Western politics.' Marco D'Eramo in Sidecar:

Marco D'Eramo, Tianxia versus Plato — Sidecar

Comparing antiquities.

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'Today the peasants, not the workers, are the only class that is internationalist in practice, precisely because they are chauvinist in ideology.' Marco D'Eramo on the farmers' protests and 'l'Europe profonde':

Marco D'Eramo, L’Europe profonde — Sidecar

Farmers in revolt.

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'The fact is that over twenty years, the US has failed to build anything that might redeem its mission. The brilliantly lit Green Zone was always surrounded by a darkness that the Zoners could not fathom.' @TariqAli_News on NATO's failure:

Tariq Ali, Debacle in Afghanistan — Sidecar

The end of NATO’s forever war.

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‘Gramsci’s critique of political science begins from a simple but profound idea: that everyone is a legislator.’ In NLR 129, Michael Denning rereads Gramsci as a theorist of political organizing.

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'Only a Europe at peace with Russia, one that respects Russian security needs, could hope to free itself from the American embrace, so effectively renewed during the Ukrainian crisis.' Wolfgang Streeck on the geopolitical fallout of Putin's war:

Wolfgang Streeck, Fog of War — Sidecar

Putin’s invasion revitalizes NATO.

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'Hundreds of Finns, including the former chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, have paid to have personalized messages inscribed on Ukrainian artillery shells fired at Russian forces.' Lily Lynch ( @lilyslynch ) on Finland's wartime mania:

Lily Lynch, Finland’s Turn — Sidecar

The end of Nordic neutrality.

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Alexander Zevin ( @zevin_a ) on US liberal and left responses to war in Ukraine. ‘A refusal to contemplate any alteration to a post-Cold War order forged in hubris by the victors is not toughness. It is war mongering.’

Alexander Zevin, A Normal War — Sidecar

The American left and the war in Ukraine.

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As Biden breaks with neoliberalism, political economists have tried to situate the present moment in the long-term rhythms of capitalist development. What can we learn from their analyses? Read Cédric Durand ( @cedric_durand ) in Sidecar:

Cédric Durand, Forces of Change — Sidecar

Political economy in the Biden era.

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Latest issue of NLR now online, featuring Cihan Tuğal ( @CihanTugal ) on Turkey, Nancy Fraser on capital and climate, and Oliver Eagleton on Corbyn's defeat ( @EagletonOliver ):

NLR 147, May–June 2024

NLR 147, May–June 2024. Includes articles by Tony Wood, Owen Hatherley, Cédric Durand, Radhika Desai, Rebecca Lossin, Grey Anderson, Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Rashid Khalidi

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For NLR, Owen Hatherley on Andy Beckett and the Labour left: ‘Corbyn will likely share Scargill’s fate as a figure of hate for the British ruling class for the rest of his life. He should take it as a point of pride.’

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Duncan McCargo on the history of the Thai monarchy, from NLR 43.

Duncan McCargo, A Hollow Crown, NLR 43, January–February 2007

Duncan McCargo on Paul Handley, The King Never Smiles. Taboo-breaking biography of the world’s longest-serving monarch, Thailand’s Bhumibol Adulyadej. Is the throne’s mystique, carefully reconsolid...

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'Huber is right that capital’s pursuit of profit is a fetter on our collective liberation. What he misses is that eco-modernism similarly fetters a world of flourishing for all.' @KaiHeron writes for Sidecar on Marxist alternatives to degrowth:

Kai Heron, The Great Unfettering — Sidecar

On Marxism and eco-modernism.

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NLR 122 is now online! Featuring global perspectives on covid-19 from Mike Davis, @ai_xiaoming and others; @owenhatherley 's landmark history of London; Michael Denning on Trump's impeachment; Terry Eagleton on linguistic theory; plus much more.

NLR 147, May–June 2024

NLR 147, May–June 2024. Includes articles by Tony Wood, Owen Hatherley, Cédric Durand, Radhika Desai, Rebecca Lossin, Grey Anderson, Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Rashid Khalidi

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