Lacking the utopian horizon of an interwar fascism based on colonial expansion, today’s far right has become obsessed with bordering. It has retreated to a defensive nation-statism…newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

I appreciate the pieces in the New Left Review's Sidecar section analyzing the recent British pogroms. newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/… newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

What was behind the recent riots in Britain?👇🏾 newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Caitlín Doherty (Cait Doherty) on the character of Starmerism: 'In interviews, the Prime Minister claimed to have no favourite novel, to have suffered no childhood fears and never to dream.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

I wrote about Venezuela’s election for New Left Review Sidecar. Brief 🧵with the main takeaway: “A careful consideration of the evidence suggests the election results are not just difficult but impossible to believe.” newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/… 1/

'If the left is to defend the real gains of Chavismo during the 2000s and 2010s, it must give up on consoling fantasies and take a clear-eyed look at Venezuela’s degeneration.' Gabriel Hetland on the Venezuelan election: newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

'A careful consideration of the evidence suggests that the official election results are not just difficult but impossible to believe.' Gabriel Hetland (Gabriel Hetland) on Venezuela: newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

'If Shakespeare had his problem plays, these are problem poems, sitting uneasily in Rosselli’s own oeuvre and hard to assimilate to our nationally constrained notions of what constitutes English poetry.' Luke Roberts on Amelia Rosselli: newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Here’s my somewhat lengthy New Left Review Sidecar account of Wei Shujun’s new thriller/anti-thriller Only the River Flows in the context of modern Chinese cinema with ref to the Fifth Generation breakthrough, the Sixth Generation’s riposte and much more newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

‘Cleansed of even the mildest social-democratic sentiment, Labour now hopes to establish itself as the primary representative of British capital, wresting that title from the Tories.’ @oliver_eagleton in the September issue. mondediplo.com/2024/09/03uk

'If I were Netanyahu and my political survival depended on the continuation of the war, threatening to delay an arms shipment or two would be no reason to stop it. He’ll go on for as long as he wants, correctly assessing that this is more bark than bite.' newleftreview.org/issues/ii147/a…

People who appreciated my piece in The Nation on (de)growth should check out this New Left Review collection on related political-ecological questions edited by Lola Seaton & yrs truly: versobooks.com/products/2917-…

'When the rioters took to the streets, they were not merely repeating the slogans of politicians. They were taking matters into their own hands, enacting the violent policies they were promised.' Nadine El-Enany (Nadine El-Enany) in Sidecar: newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

I wrote for New Left Review about how monsters are made from Britain to Gaza. Thanks to Richard Seymour and Anton Jäger for their interventions on the far-right riots, which inspired this response. newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Recent UK riots as "a primitive persecutory phantasy, shaped by the UK’s colonial history and by its entrenched material disparities". New perspective from Nadine El-Enany on Sidecar New Left Review newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

For Sidecar, Loren Balhorn (Loren Balhorn) on the elections in Thuringia: 'Wagenknecht’s rhetoric makes many on the left bristle, but has it at least succeeded in taking some wind out of the AfD’s sails? Thus far, the answer seems to be no.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

I wrote a few words for the ⁦New Left Review⁩’s Sidecar blog about the elections in eastern Germany and the Left’s inability to turn the right-populist tide. newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

A sober assessment of German political events by Loren Balhorn, including the nature of AfD's appeal, the limits of Wagenknecht, and Die Linke's failure on Ukraine and Nato. newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

'The AfD has effectively paired xenophobic calls for "remigration" with easterners' inherited distrust of elites in general and western elites in particular.' Loren Balhorn (Loren Balhorn) on how the far right won in Thuringia: newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

Martin Barnay on the Sahel: ‘The recent wave of regime changes, some carried out by democratic means, others by force, has reshuffled the geopolitical deck.’ newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…