Prior to the onset of the wave, a vast pool of capital lies idle, waiting for channels of profit and investment to open. Then ...

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The expansion of the war from Palestine to Iran, which began on 13 June, signals an Israeli obsession persisting for four decades. As the Trump administration was negotiating in bad faith with Iran ...

The Israeli assault on Iran – launched as the genocide against the Palestinian people grinds on – follows a grimly familiar script. As with its previous campaigns in Lebanon and Gaza, Israel is ...

Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin became a literary figure of national importance at the age of 15, when Gavriil Derzhavin, the grand old man of Russian letters, listened in rapt attention as Pushkin read ...

Robert Gordon’s panoramic Rise and Fall of American Growth foregrounds exogenous explanations for the fall-off in us economic dynamism since the seventies. Challenging his account, Michel Aglietta ...

I. From Briggs to Flint. The original period of the cio ’s formation—1933–37—has been incomparably better studied than its wartime expansion; yet at the same time, the historiography of this heroic ...

The Underlying Assumptions. Coates’ analysis of ‘the determinants of Labour politics’ is based on the following four assumptions. (1) There is an ‘inexorable tendency under capitalism’ for the organic ...

T hree things have won conventional wars in this century; greater reserves of manpower, greater industrial potential and a reasonably functioning system of civilian administration. The strategy of the ...

Fail better. This is Lenin at his Beckettian best, foreshadowing the line from Worstward Ho: ‘Try again.Fail again. Fail better.’ footnote 2 His conclusion—to begin from the beginning—makes it clear ...

Fernando Claudin was a leader of the Spanish Communist Party until his expulsion in 1964, and is the author of the already classic The Communist Movement: from Comintern to Cominform. footnote 1 The ...