The Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña’s work binds together Marxism and indigenous Latin American culture. Her paintings and sculptures present an alternative to the dreariness of
Historians have underestimated the role of pandemics in changing the course of history. Long before the Black Death hit Europe, an outbreak of bubonic plague
Jean-Luc Godard was the last radical working in cinema during an era where the medium of movies still genuinely had the power to shock. Jean-Luc
W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America is one of the greatest modern studies of revolution and counterrevolution. It’s also an extraordinary example
Jean-Luc Godard in 1968 Picture: Gary Steven/Wikipedia When I was a 21-year old student at Oxford University the Moulin Rouge cinema in Headington ran a
Crowds gather at Buckingham Palace last week. Why do people accept reactionary ideas? (Picture: Gary Knight) Politicians and the media drove the mourning for the
Today marks 150 years since the first French edition of Capital. This wasn’t just a translation but a “completely revised” work — showing how Karl
Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev, who died last week, was a tragic figure. He tried to build a humane socialism on the rotten foundations of authoritarianism.
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