Richard Seymour 13 August 2024Politics What just happened? For almost a week, towns and cities across England and Northern Ireland were in the grip of pogromist reaction. In Hull, Sunderland, Rotherham, Liverpool, Aldershot, Leeds, Middlesborough, Tamworth, Belfast, Bolton, Stoke-on-Trent, Doncaster and Manchester, networked mobs of fascoid agitators and disorganized racists were thrilled by their own…

Marcello Musto is Professor of Sociology at York University in Toronto. His most recent book is The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography. He also published Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International, alongside numerous other books and anthologies. He has been called “arguably the greatest connoisseur of Marx’s life,” and his writings have been translated into 25…

The Guardian, Britain’s leading liberal newspaper with a global reputation for independent and critical journalism, has been successfully targeted by security agencies to neutralise its adversarial reporting of the ‘security state’, according to newly released documents and evidence from former and current Guardian journalists. MATT KENNARD and MARK CURTIS10 September 2019 A man reads a copy of…

1. Libraries are a Gateway to Deeper Knowledge: Your personal library becomes a curated collection tailored to your interests. Unlike the vast but sometimes overwhelming internet, your shelves house trusted sources you can revisit for in-depth exploration of a topic. 2. They Fuel Curiosity and Inspiration: Surrounded by books, you’re constantly reminded of new worlds…

Fascism is an insufficient term, as it denies the intimacy between liberal and far right forces. In this week’s newsletter, we present ten theses to understand this ‘intimate embrace’ and the rise of this far right of a special type. 15 August 2024 Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. There has…