It can either follow the working class along the nationalist-chauvinist road or insist on its internationalist principles at the cost of severing any remaining connection with its indispensable social ...

The existence of Rojava as a semi-autonomous space, with global symbolic resonance – for women’s liberation, unprecedented in ...

At least until the invasion of Iraq – and to an extent, even afterwards – New Labour could count on the support of the British culture industry. Of course there were exceptions: the odd band, like ...

The stock market valuation of AI-related firms has increased tenfold over the past decade. As John Lanchester noted recently, all but one of the world’s ten largest companies are connected to the ...

One of the founding documents of Western philosophy deals with the phenomenon of being exempt from punishment. In Plato’s Republic, Glaukon challenges Sokrates by telling a story: there was a shepherd ...

Two decades before US forces kidnapped Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro this weekend, Hugo Chávez had already predicted the approach: Years ago, someone told me: ‘They’re going to end up accusing ...

2025 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Patti Smith’s debut album Horses, with Robert Mapplethorpe’s black and white cover portrait of the artist posed with her jacket slung over her shoulder, Frank ...

Among the myths of Greek antiquity is the story of the demigod Aristaeus. Known as the ‘pastoral’ Apollo, he was celebrated for initiating a ritual often referred to as bugonia. Noticing that his bees ...

There is a commonplace saying that history is written by the victors. At the time of writing, there is a ceasefire in effect in Gaza, although it is one-sided, because as usual in such cases, Israel ...

Among the many lessons of Trump’s return to the White House, a crucial one concerns civil society: a mushy and frustrating, but nevertheless inescapable, concept. Taken up from Hegel’s Philosophy of ...

Preparations for the founding conference of Britain’s new socialist party – provisionally named ‘Your Party’ – are underway. More than 800,000 people have registered as supporters. Local groups, proto ...