Elias Khoury (1948-2024).

To him, no further regionalization of the country is required; shock therapy is best pursued in national lockstep, with ...

Iran and escalation.

A shipyard is like a big factory, a tangle of cranes as tall as five-story buildings, sheds and dry docks. This is how the Fincantieri shipyards in Marghera appear as you cross the Mestre bridge, the ...

Class-divided societies have almost always been governed politically by a small minority. In general, this chosen few is a small group even in relation to the ‘ruling class’ itself, in the Marxist ...

In his wonderful short text ‘Notes of a Publicist’—written in February 1922 when the Bolsheviks, after winning the Civil War against all odds, had to retreat into the New Economic Policy of allowing a ...

Trotsky’s interpretation of the historical meaning of Stalinism, to this day the most coherent and developed theorization of the phenomenon within the Marxist tradition, was constructed in the course ...

The long route from the informal shop-floor democracy of the first Briggs strike to the boardroom wheeling-dealing of the 1950 settlement, and the corresponding dilution and displacement of rank and ...