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Victor Strazzeri
The article provides a critical overview of the latest phase of scholarly engagement with Eurocommunism, firstly, by pointing out the resilience of a ‘Cold War framing’ in many of the new studies of the phenomenon, secondly, by stressing the resulting blind spots in the assessment of its geographical scope (e.g., the lack of attention paid to Spain, scarce contributions on Eurocommunism’s ramifications beyond West Europe).
Helena Sheehan, Navigating the Zeitgeist: A Story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish Republicanism, and International Communism, New York: Monthly Review Press, 2019, (pb) 308pp., ISBN 978-1-58367-727-8.
Geoff Brown
Not just Peterloo: Remembering the Anti-Apartheid protest against the Springboks, Manchester, 26 November 1969
George Yerby
Michael J. Braddick (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015; 636 pp.; ISBN 9780199695898, £95.00, hbk
Allan Antliff
About this issue’s cover: Herbert Read Commemorates Emma Goldman
David Porter
While anarchists continue today to debate whether or not to support national liberation movements, discussion of the issue often refers back to French anarchists’ experience during the Algerian war (1954–62).
Carl Levy
Steve J. Shone, American Anarchism Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2013; 297pp; ISBN 97804251946 Terrance Wiley, Angelic Troublemakers: Religion and Anarchism in America London: Bloomsbury, 2014; 208pp; ISBN 978162356601
Colm Murphy
Advocates of Corbynomics will need to decide on the place of decentralisation and democratisation within their overall vision of economic transformation.
Alan Finlayson, Lea Ypi
The fall of Theresa May has ushered in a new phase in the UK’s never-ending Brexit crisis. Energy is once again behind a hard-Brexit right led by Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson.
Elizabeth Anderson, Daniel Chandler
Elizabeth Anderson interviewed by Daniel Chandler.
Matthew Bishop, Tony Payne
Neoliberal globalisation is in crisis – but it’s an illusion to believe that we can turn back the clock on forty years of international economic integration. The left urgently needs to discover the ideas and agency necessary to resist the disaster capitalists of the right, and build a progressive reglobalisation.
Sally Davison, Kirsten Forkert
Kirsten Forkert and Sally Davison introduce this special issue of Soundings.
Mary Kaldor
The slogan ‘take back control’ can be seen as an expression of protest at the hollowing out of democracy. The Brexit referendum has caused many problems, but it has also opened up the possibility for a sense of re-empowerment - the renewed possibility for discussion of ‘substantive politics’.
David Featherstone, Lazaros Karaliotas
Populism refers to forms of politics that put ‘the people’ at their centre, but the way ‘the people’ is understood varies widely. Questions of left populism have gained significant traction and engagement in the last decade - and this is a key focus of this article.
Gabriel Bristow
A discussion of the recent gilets jaunes revolt in France, reflecting on the dynamics of contemporary populist social movements.
Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn
Imagine being in the midst of a political mass rally, the first in many years, right in the centre of your home country’s capital. Imagine people from all walks of life with their banners, slogans and demands, asking for a little bit more life and dignity not only for themselves but for the whole of society.
Antje Scharenberg, Nick Beech, Simon Peplow
Antje Scharenberg reviews Lorenzo Marsili and Niccolò Milanese, Citizens of Nowhere - How Europe Can Be Saved from Itself, Zed 2018 Johny Pitts, Afropean - Notes from Black Europe, Allen Lane 2019 Nick Beech reviews Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel, The Popular Arts, with an introduction by Richard Dyer, Duke University Press, Durham NC and London 2018 Simon Peplow reviews Shirin Hirsch, In the Shadow of Enoch Powell: Race, Locality and Resistance, Manchester University Press
Antje Scharenberg, Nick Beech, Simon Peplow, John Clarke
Antje Scharenberg reviews Lorenzo Marsili and Niccolò Milanese, Citizens of Nowhere - How Europe Can Be Saved from Itself, Zed 2018 and Johny Pitts, Afropean - Notes from Black Europe, Allen Lane 2019 Nick Beech reviews Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel, The Popular Arts, with an introduction by Richard Dyer, Duke University Press, Durham NC and London 2018 Simon Peplow reviews Shirin Hirsch, In the Shadow of Enoch Powell: Race, Locality and Resistance, Manchester University Press John Clarke reviews Kristóf Szombati, The Revolt of the Provinces: Anti-Gypsyism and Right-Wing Politics in Hungary, Berghahn Books, 2018
Jeremy Gilbert
Jeremy Gilbert introduces issue 96-97 of New Formations.