In 1949, a few years after his return to Budapest following a quarter of a century’s exile, Georg Lukacs found himself under vigorous attack by the press and the party hierarchs who accused him, among other things, of “revisionism” and …
Since 1973 the world capitalist economy has been undergoing a crisis unprecedented in half a century—”the second slump,” as Ernest Mandel rightly calls it. To be sure, each advanced industrial country has its own history, balance of political forces, and …
Since 1973 the world capitalist economy has been undergoing a crisis unprecedented in half a century—”the second slump,” as Ernest Mandel rightly calls it. To be sure, each advanced industrial country has its own history, balance of political forces, and …
We have heard much in recent months about the long-awaited recovery of the U.S. economy. After four years of virtual stagnation, the economic news out of Washington has been decided upbeat since this spring. The stock market began to surge …
“It’s just not fair,” said Prendergast to his fellow movers-and-shakers at lunch in the White House Mess. “Margaret Thatcher makes more mistakes and botches the economy even worse than our boss, and because she is lucky enough to fall into …
American radicals have lived with and by a mischievous mythology built around the proletariat, the system, and the vanguard. That is the essence of a complex, convoluted, and clever book by Aileen S. Kraditor, professor emerita of history at Boston …
When it comes to public-sector unionism, sometimes good news is no news. How else to explain the refusal of the news media to cover the largest union organizing victory in recent history? In ballots counted on June 29, the American …
My concern here is not primarily with Michel Foucault’s political positions, the statements he has made, the articles he has written, his response to “events”—May ’68, the prison revolts of the early ’70s, the Iranian revolution, and so on. Though he …
The Reagan policy in Central America appears to be moving toward even further disasters than at first seemed possible. The resignation of Secretary of State Alexander Haig seemed to be a portent of a more rational policy—a retreat from viewing …
Since taking office last December, Spain’s new Socialist government has accorded foreign policy a central role. This signifies quite a turnabout. For, ever since the beginning of this century—excepting the Civil War of the 1930s—Spain has been rather a passive …
In mid-July, on a hot Detroit afternoon, I came to Solidarity House—the national headquarters of the United Automobile Workers Union—to have a talk with Owen Bieber, the union’s new president. The result follows below. In a 1961 filni illustrating how …
There are prominent members of the Labour party, both on the left and on the right, who don’t seem to recognize the severity of the beating we suffered in the general election of June 1983. But some of us at …
American radicals have lived with and by a mischievous mythology built around the proletariat, the system, and the vanguard. That is the essence of a complex, convoluted, and clever book by Aileen S. Kraditor, professor emerita of history at Boston …
I want to argue three propositions about the social phenomenon called the “new class”: (1) it may be a class, but it is not new; (2) it may be new, but it is not a class; (3) it may be …
The Reagan policy in Central America appears to be moving toward even further disasters than at first seemed possible. The resignation of Secretary of State Alexander Haig seemed to be a portent of a more rational policy—a retreat from viewing …
