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The New Left Review blog covers the same range as the journal – international politics, world capitalism, culture and ideas – at higher speed and shorter length.
15 December 2020
Kazakhstan’s Unrest
End of the Nazarbayev era.
21 January 2022
NATO, Past and Future
With Biden pledging to restore the ‘rules-based order’, Germany steps up its imperial manoeuvres, and Macron eyes a European Army.
15 December 2020
Ouattara III
As Cote D’Ivoire’s premier begins his unlawful third term with violence raging in the streets, an analysis of the neo-colonial interests that underpin his presidency.
15 December 2020
Funeral Rites
Avant-garde documentarist Sergei Loznitsa assembles found Agfacolor footage of the USSR’s lurch into the post-Stalin era.
15 December 2020
Negative Capability
The stigmas and stratifications of post-war France, refracted in the experimental life-writing of Annie Ernaux.
15 December 2020
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Debacle in Afghanistan
The end of NATO’s forever war.
16 August 2021
Crypto-Politics
Is analytic philosophy inherently reactionary?
29 June 2021
Quad of Mirrors
On Amia Srinivasan’s campus feminism.
31 August 2021
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