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The British poet and translator Robert Chandler and his wife Elizabeth Chandler have spent decades translating many of Grossman’s works into English.

Peng Lifa disappeared into the clutches of Chinese security forces in Beijing after he unfurled banners off a bridge with slogans attacking the autocracy of President Xi Jinping. But his daring act—and his manifesto calling for mass action to achieve democracy—have stirred hope for change and a discussion of strategy among Chinese on the mainland and around the world.

The hundredth anniversary of Mussolini’s seizure of power is not only of historical interest, but of burning political actuality. A week ago, his political heirs took over the Italian government.

“Hereby it is manifest,” Thomas Hobbes wrote in 1651’s Leviathan, “that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and suc...

Democracy means the government of the people, for the people, and by the people and one of its primary aims is the respect of individuals and idolising of none. For the effective function of democracy, the existence of political parties is inevitable

The letter’s demand that Biden intervene to ensure that the contract “be ratified”—i.e., with or without the consent of workers—is the attitude of a corporatist dictatorship.

Within hours of arriving in Coyoacán — a leafy, tranquil, beautiful neighborhood in the southwest part of Mexico City — I was searching the internet for long-term rentals in...

Curiosity about the daily lives of the famous draws us to the places they lived. In Coyoacán it’s possible to commune with the ghosts of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Leon Trotsky and more.

Mike Davis, the revolutionary socialist social and culture critic, has died. 

St. Marks Place in the East Village has Mamoun’s, Crif Dogs, Cafe Mogador, Little Kirin, and more restaurants to check out