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New Zealand’s cultural upheaval on The Spectator Australia | My wife and I recently spent two weeks on a road trip around New Zealand’s South Island. It’s a…

New Zealand’s cultural upheaval on The Spectator Australia | My wife and I recently spent two weeks on a road trip around New Zealand’s South Island. It’s a…

For the Italian Communist, there was no road map for social transformation beyond hands-on, bottom-up activism.

Article from 1997 by Robin D. G. Kelley on discussions around identity politics and class struggle. While written twenty years ago it remains relevant to current discussions on the same topic.

A radical historian who embodied the spirit of the 60s.

By Uditha Devapriya In claiming that all mainstream parties have failed the country, the JVP-NPP has made a necessity out of virtue. The JVP has always touted itself as the better alternative, and in the present conjuncture, it feels it’s the best alternative we have. That may explain why its manifesto, “Rapid Response”, reads like […]

By Uditha Devapriya For the oppressed masses of the Third World, the establishment of UNCTAD and the proposal for a New International Economic Order marked the high point of 20th century multilateralism. These coincided with the longest spell of decolonisation recorded in history, in turn fuelled by a spate of bourgeois democratic and Marxist Left […]

By DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA If the JVP-NPP sincerely wishes to present itself as a serious alternative, it should model its strategy on that of the Communist party of India (Marxist) in Kerala. Kerala is governed by the Left Democratic Front (LDF), more formally the Left and Democratic Front, led by the Communist Party of India […]

A short history of the Fort Hood three, a group of GIs who were the first high profile examples of American troops refusing to fight in the Vietnam War.

It is crucial to understand how radically Mészáros’s critique of the state, viewed in this way, differs from liberal theories of the state, as well as from…