‘Movements that organize around affirming citizenship risk entrenching the social form of the state that produces and polices [a] diminished social reality.’ Madhubala P and Gautam Bhat…

‘Doctrinal international legal scholars contribute to the reproduction of [a] fantasy: They reproduce and give legitimacy to particular ideas as autonomous forces, reifying the dynamics of so…

Aoife Edith Rosa considers law as strategy and tactic for trans liberation after For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers.

‘Doctrinal international legal scholars contribute to the reproduction of [a] fantasy: They reproduce and give legitimacy to particular ideas as autonomous forces, reifying the dynamics of so…

‘The answer to Trump is not fewer checks but more—the subordination of the presidency to the legislature, or even the abolition of the executive as a separate and “coequal” branch…

John Milios on the importance of addressing the issue of capitalist legal forms in a socialist society as a prerequisite for examining class conflicts and socioeconomic transformations in socialist…

‘[S]o-called “law,” even in its form … is merely another fetishistically distorted appearance of the same social realities that first appear—already in fetishized form—in the commodity (i.e.,…

Capitalism, imperialism and European Union Law: towards a Marxist approach - Volume 4 Issue 2

‘Defending the institutions and “standing up for science” is really clinging to a bygone illusion. The stakes of institutional engagement are changing as institutions are…being de…

‘Defending the institutions and “standing up for science” is really clinging to a bygone illusion. The stakes of institutional engagement are changing as institutions are…being de…

The long read: Many of his supporters hoped the prime minister would restore the UK’s commitment to international law. Yet Labour’s record over the past year has been curiously mixed

Leila Faghfouri Azar and Shahin Nasiri discuss the hegemonic conceptual framings of genocidal violence, how they obscure neocolonial and genocidal warfare in the Middle East, and why foregrounding …

Leila Faghfouri Azar and Shahin Nasiri discuss the hegemonic conceptual framings of genocidal violence, how they obscure neocolonial and genocidal warfare in the Middle East, and why foregrounding …

‘All domination must be excluded, including the domination of transphobes over trans lives.’ D K Renton on trans liberation and competing conceptions of tolerance.

‘All domination must be excluded, including the domination of transphobes over trans lives.’ D K Renton on trans liberation and competing conceptions of tolerance.

Robert Knox and Eva Nanopoulos on the ‘spectacular pseudo-sanctions’ against Israel that were recently announced by the UK government, and their role in normalising the settler-colonial…

Robert Knox and Eva Nanopoulos on the ‘spectacular pseudo-sanctions’ against Israel that were recently announced by the UK government, and their role in normalising the settler-colonial…

August Nimtz on the events in LA, labour in the US, and whether we are witnessing a revolutionary moment.

As Harvard University is leading a rebellion against the Trump administration’s far-reaching intervention into university practices under the pretext of fighting antisemitism on campus, Heyleh Dout…

‘More “communal” forms of labour, based on the cooperative participation of the producers, are a better basis for developing technical standards than a body of people unaccountabl…

Rosie Woodhouse on the repression of Palestinian solidarity in Germany.

Maria Tzanakopoulou reviews Dimitris Kivotidis’ The Dialectics of Democracy (Routledge 2024) as an emancipatory read reclaiming territory often colonised by conventional constitutional thought and …

‘Erdoğan’s push for a new constitution is driven by the shifting trajectory of Turkey’s political regime and its corresponding state form’. Ulaş Karadağ on the political economy of cons…

‘Instead of the abstract equality before the law, the classless society is founded on the equality of individual human needs.’ Werner Bonefeld on Marx, Pashukanis, and the historical sp…

‘Trump’s no fascist—he’s just a run-of-the-mill authoritarian. He’s the most authentic capitalist to ever occupy the White House.’ August H. Nimtz on the recent election in the US…

The first part of Pavlos Roufos’ two-part post on ordoliberalism and the political economy of Europe.

In 1973, German sociologist and ‘academic spokesman of the neo-Marxist left in the 1970s,’ Oskar Negt characterised the materialist theory of right as the stepchild of Marxist theory.[1]  With the …