50 Years of New Left review 1960-2010
Gavan McCormack: practical lessons in world hegemony, as Japan’s attempt to strike an independent course and shift a US base from Okinawa is cut down by the Obama Administration.
Adolfo Gilly recalls his life as a roving agitator and writer, traversing 20th-century Latin American and European revolutionary movements.
Sabry Hafez surveys the slums of Cairo, and their homology in a striking new genre of narrative fiction.
Mark Elvin compares attitudes to the natural world in classical Chinese and European poetry.
Slavoj Zizek on the Eurozone’s sovereign-debt crisis and the possibilities for an internationalist response.
Peter Nolan and Jin Zhang assess the comparative weight of China’s largest firms and Western multinationals.
Fredric Jameson considers the aesthetics of the new globalised Wagnerian Regieoper.
Book Reviews
Jacob Collins on Regis Debray, Le moment fraternite. Can radical bonds of fraternity be forged in an atomized world?
Gregor McLennan on Terry Eagleton, Trouble with Strangers and Reason, Faith, and Revolution. Jesus and Lacan join forces in an ethics of revolutionary goodness.
Michael Hardt on Michel Foucault, Le gouvernement de soi et des autres and Le courage de la verite. Final meditations on militant life.