Elias Khoury (1948-2024).

To him, no further regionalization of the country is required; shock therapy is best pursued in national lockstep, with ...

Iran and escalation.

A shipyard is like a big factory, a tangle of cranes as tall as five-story buildings, sheds and dry docks. This is how the Fincantieri shipyards in Marghera appear as you cross the Mestre bridge, the ...

In his wonderful short text ‘Notes of a Publicist’—written in February 1922 when the Bolsheviks, after winning the Civil War against all odds, had to retreat into the New Economic Policy of allowing a ...

In State and Revolution, Lenin quotes and then comments on a passage in Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Programme as follows: ‘“Equal right” [of everyone to an equal product of labour] we certainly do ...

The long route from the informal shop-floor democracy of the first Briggs strike to the boardroom wheeling-dealing of the 1950 settlement, and the corresponding dilution and displacement of rank and ...