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by Jeff Halper (Pluto Press, £14.99) THE IDEA of a single democratic state as a political solution for Palestine is nothing new. It was the policy of the Palestinian liberation movement, enshrined in the PLO Charter and only abandoned by the PLO in 1988 in favour of the two-state solution. In this book Jeff Halper, a founder member of the recently established  One Democratic State campaign, argues that Israel never intended the two-state solution to be a solution at all — instead, it was employed as a useful tool for managing the situation rather than solving it. Meanwhile Israel has cons...

When Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition first appeared in 1983, it was far from an instant classic. Aside from a couple of extended reviews that focused on Robinson’s critique of Marxism, most academic mentions were cursory, hardly bothering with the more challenging aspects of his argument. Coming as it did on the heels of Black Power–era debates over whether Marxism was appropriate for Black struggle, movement intellectuals did engage and debate the book. However, its reception among this crowd was complicated by the fact that it didn’t wholl...

Anat Matar Anat Matar is a senior lecturer at the Department of Philosophy in Tel Aviv University. She is a member of the “Solidarity with Palestinian Academia and the Struggle Against the Occupation” team at Academia for Equality. She is co-editor (with Adv. Abeer Baker), of Threat: Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israel, London: Pluto Press, 2011. Recent Articles

The JJ Bola Emerging Writers Prize comes with £1,000 and a contract at the Pontas Agency, and is geared to writers from ‘Black, ethnic minority, LGBTQ+, and working-class backgrounds.’ A delivery cyclist rides by Barcelona’s Basílica de la Sagrada Família, April 9. Image – iStockphoto: Manel Subirats Submission Deadline: March 15 The Pontas Literary and Film Agency in Spain will have been in business for 29 years in May, and in a new announcement provided to Publishing Perspectives, Maria Cardona there tells us that the company is opening submissions for a new support-award for wr...

Modern Diplomacy Published 2 months ago Earlier reports have mentioned Iran’s nuclear scientist Mohsin Fakhrizadeh’s assassination in several ways, but now Iranian officials say he was murdered with the help of a remotely operated machine gun in the middle of the road. has gone. However, Iran still maintains its stand that Israel is behind his murder. He was murdered on 27 November. Iran’s reasoning behind this is very simple that Israel is one of the few countries which has enough reason and ability to carry out such attacks on Iran’s soil. But even more general consensus is that Is...