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The New Left Review blog covers the same range as the journal – international politics, world capitalism, culture and ideas – but at higher speed and shorter length.
An interview with the veteran Middle East analyst.
Clues to the structural constraints of German politics, sought in the manoeuvrings of Merkel’s would-be successor, Markus Söder.
If dissimulation is integral to political discourse, what explains the rise – and sudden fall – of ‘fake news’ since 2017?
Lofted by the press, the Labour leader’s bid to purge the left – and expel Corbyn – is running into trouble.
The stigmas and stratifications of post-war France, refracted in the experimental life-writing of Annie Ernaux.
With Biden pledging to restore the ‘rules-based order’, Germany steps up its imperial manoeuvres, and Macron eyes a European Army.
Vintage political analysis of the historical Jesus, by a long-standing comrade of the Review.
Avant-garde documentarist Sergei Loznitsa assembles found Agfacolor footage of the USSR’s lurch into the post-Stalin era.
Trajectories for a darkening pink tide, with the continent’s unstable polities balanced atop its ailing extractivist economy.
Contra treatments of EndSARS as an African variant of Black Lives Matter, an overview of the movement in its national context.
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.
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