After an early line in lurid depictions of the overindulged bodies of the NEPman and NEPwoman, entrepreneurial harbingers of capitalism in the 1920s Soviet mixed economy, Deineka’s work quickly ...

Having never previously aligned themselves with either the left or right bloc, the Greens successfully pivoted to the left in this election, making headway on the issues of oil and Palestine. The ...

an old-school realist who has changed because of his experience. He’s gone back and re-examined everything he did, and he’s ...

The new Marxist culture that emerged in the United States from about 2010 has many merits. It is particularly concerned with empirical reality and focused on tactical and strategic questions. It ...

The gallery of grotesques assembled by Trump – only the toga was missing in his rendering of the Roman Emperor Nero – at Sharm-el-Sheikh, the Egyptian resort synonymous with luxury and despotism, ...

A general strike erupted across Italy on Monday and some half a million people took to the streets in one of Europe’s largest mobilisations against the war on Gaza. Actions took place in at least 75 ...

For all its eccentricity and absurdism, the French poet Laura Vazquez’s debut novel, The Endless Week, grounds itself in the familiar. The quotidian is its object and its adversary. From this Vazquez ...

Preparations for the founding conference of Britain’s new socialist party – provisionally named ‘Your Party’ – are underway. More than 800,000 people have registered as supporters. Local groups, proto ...

One of the features of our age is that ‘improvements’ are rarely good news. A promised improvement means that those with power are going to change something, and those with power would not be where ...

Ari Aster, who gave the horror film a new jolt of macabre energy in Hereditary (2017) and Midsommar (2019), both concerned in part with the nightmare – or jet-black comedy – of being a daughter, has ...

It would be laughable if it were not so tragic. For at least four reasons. 1. The full-throated defence of globalization by a left that previously characterized it as the source of every human ...

Zarah Sultana is among Britain’s most prominent socialist leaders. Born in Birmingham in 1993, she became politically active in the student movement and later in the upsurge of Corbynism: serving on ...