New Left Review analyses world politics, the global economy, state powers and protest movements; contemporary social theory, history, philosophy and culture.

Mario del Pero on Anders Stephanson, American Imperatives. Critical reflections on the Cold War as a strategy of US ...

Ilya Budraitskis on Benjamin Nathans, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause. Compelling account of the friendship networks of ...

Julian Stallabrass on Trevor Paglen, How to See Like a Machine. An American artist documents and explores the arrival of the ...

Élisabeth is certainly distinguished by extensive descriptions of ‘material facts’: settings, objects, gestures. When Claire ...

Most analysts had expected the Democratic Centre, built on the cult of personality surrounding former president Álvaro Uribe ...

In the ‘Freedom of Self-Consciousness’ chapter of The Phenomenology of Spirit, which follows the better-known parable about the master and the slave, Hegel considers two schools of ancient philosophy: ...

After nearly four years of right-wing government led by Giorgia Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia, with elections due in 2027, Italy is witnessing the ascendance of a new force on the populist right. Its ...

Hardliners on both sides in the Ukraine war are pursuing a chimaera in the hope of a miracle. Moscow appears to believe that in the near future, the Ukrainian defences that have held the Russian ...

In March 1934, a young Communist militant rode on horseback into the tiny settlement of Estación Camarón in Nuevo León, in the far northeast of Mexico. He had been sent by the party to support a ...

Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s speech at NATO’s Defence Industry Forum in Ankara earlier this month was a hymn to drone warfare. Drones, the Ukrainian president proclaimed, had heralded ‘revolutionary changes ...