Liberalism at Large is now a lot lighter. The paperback version of my book is out in stores and from Verso for 30% off:

Could NYC once again become an ‘island of social democracy’ in the US? My piece sets Zohran’s win in historical perspective going back to Henry George’s near-victory in 1886, and the long battle for Home Rule in New York

Join us on Tue, 27 May at Verso’s NYC office for the launch of NLR 152. David Harvey, Alyssa Battistoni and Tim Barker will discuss the contradictions of contemporary capitalism. Issues and subs online and at the door. Sign up here (space is limited).

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RT @jcollinshistory: George Steinmetz’s Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought is a meticulous study of the links btw the social science….

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What path forward for socialism at the end of history? I wrote about historian Eric Hobsbawm’s complex relationship with liberalism at the moment of its apparent triumph in the 1990s

‘From Sartre I learned to look beyond surfaces. He also made me a leftist long before I knew what that was. Reading Sartre steered me to Fanon, and to Henri Alleg’s book…Reading about France and Algeria woke me up to what kind of country I was living in’.

“I came to realize that the people who really seemed to know what they were doing were the communists,” Rossanda remembered in her memoir. They were “resolutely realistic . special kinds of people.”

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‘The fedora-sporting politician toured Rochdale with a megaphone, calling the byelection “a referendum on Gaza” and a chance to stage a protest against Labour.’

‘The thing is, even if there were a ceasefire tomorrow, this movement isn’t going away…the feeling among the organizers is that there has been a permanent sea-change in public attitudes towards Palestine. And this has already altered British politics.’

RT @jcollinshistory: My thoughts on the life and work of Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, historian of peasants, climate change, class struggle, an….

RT @NewLeftReview: Perry Anderson on the history, theory and pratice of international law as a hegemonic instrument: . 'What they forbade o….

RT @EagletonOliver: Everything you need to know about Lula's first year back in power:.

RT @kunktation: "As in the US, a gap has opened up between popular sentiment & any meaningful political expression of it: 80% of Labour vot….

The Biden White House continues to arm, fund and provide cover to the IDF’s slaughter of civilians in Gaza. I examined how the issue has played out in Anglo-American politics and culture.

RT @NewLeftReview: For Sidecar, Joshua Rahtz on Germany's new left-wing party:. 'Far from signalling a "normalizat….

RT @EagletonOliver: For Sidecar, I wrote on Biden's vision for the Middle East and the extent to which it aligns with the Israeli war on Ga….

RT @IsabellaMWeber: Haven’t been looking forward to a panel as I’m looking forward to this one in a while. Join @BrankoMilan @PaulMagnett….