Polanyi’s gaps While Burawoy is right to argue that the conceptual link between class analysis and socialism, or ‘real utopias’, should be sought in the dynamics of capitalist development, it is less ...

Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for mayor represents the most concerted outsider challenge to the ruling order of the city since ...

As we go to press, Régis Debray is about to stand trial in Bolivia. The military authorities who claim to try him have announced him in advance ‘guilty’ of the fabricated charges against him. The ...

Spain has been rocked by periodic corruption crises ever since the country’s transition to democracy in the 1970s. The PSOE ...

The lifetime of Auguste Blanqui (1805–81) coincides with the rise and fall of the secret society as an effective harbinger of socialism. Auguste Blanqui was the son of a low rank imperial official; ...

The well-travelled life and consistently lucid, radical thought of global labour’s great comparative ethnographer—and social ...

How might we reimagine freedom on an increasingly turbulent and resource-constrained planet? Charting a course between rival ...

NLR 153, May–June 2025. Includes articles by NLR Editors, Zhang Yongle, Michael Levien, Roberto Schwarz, Alyssa Battistoni, Aaron Benanav and Michael Burawoy ...

Ignoring Gaza Obama’s line towards Israel would be manifest even before he took office. On December 27, 2008, the idf launched an all-out air and ground assault on the population of Gaza. Bombing, ...