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New Left Review

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Left-wing journal of ideas covering world politics, global economy, movements, theory, history, culture and more. Website: newleftreview.org

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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In NLR 160: Polarity's Dialectician. Mario del Pero reviews Anders Stephanson's American Imperatives, a collection of essays from Cold War historiography's most radical thinker. newleftreview.org/issues/ii160...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Freshers' week offer: 20% off student subscriptions until the end of September. newleftreview.org/s/160_studen...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In NLR 160: Carlo Ginzburg & Perry Anderson, Correspondence. Intellectual exchanges from 1999–2007, covering war, politics, religion, history and philology. newleftreview.org/issues/ii160...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Wolfgang Streeck on polycrisis and the AfD: 'From the perspective of the ruling political class, this certainly has an appeal – demonstrations by all right-thinking people against the AfD are preferable to demonstrations against the rising cost of living.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Wolfgang Streeck, Who Will Pay — Sidecar
Fiscal crisis and firewalls.
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Joshua Rahtz in Sidecar: 'The rightist Alternative für Deutschland’s victory in the Saxony-Anhalt Landtag election on 6 September gives political refusal a new form in the Federal Republic.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Joshua Rahtz, No Alternative? — Sidecar
On the Saxony-Anhalt election.
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sophia Goodfriend in Sidecar: 'State-sponsored festivals and pitch-days help spin the refinement of algorithms to kill as a lucrative white-collar job like any other.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Sophia Goodfriend, Boom Times — Sidecar
At the European Defence Tech Festival.
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In NLR 160: Rogue Verbs. Mao Jian maps China’s contemporary cultural scene, from hugely popular micro-dramas and video games to avant-garde literature. newleftreview.org/issues/ii160...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In NLR 160: The New National Question. Benjamin Kunkel analyses a slew of studies on deglobalization and the rise of economic nationalism, sketching out possibilities for contemporary lefts. newleftreview.org/issues/ii160...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In NLR 160: Changing the Guard. ‘A desperate Labour Party resorted to what might be called the Messiah complex: the hope that a new leader, uncontaminated by past mistakes, will put everything right.’ —Donald Sassoon on the latest Westminster coup. newleftreview.org/issues/ii160...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
'There is perhaps no other building in the world where you can watch a skilled, confident architect moving so far, so fast.' Owen Hatherley on the Glasgow School of Art: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Owen Hatherley, Ruination — Sidecar
On the Glasgow School of Art.
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
NLR 160 is out now. Featuring Benjamin Kunkel on the ‘new national question’; Carlo Ginzburg's correspondence with Perry Anderson; Mao Jian on new cultural forms in China; Donald Sassoon on the British Labour Party, plus book reviews... newleftreview.org/issues/ii160/
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NLR 160, July–August 2026
NLR 160, July–August 2026. Includes articles by Perry Anderson, Julian Stallabrass, Donald Sassoon, Benjamin Kunkel, Mao Jian, Ilya Budraitskis, Carlo Ginzburg, Perry Anderson and Mario del Pero
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Ryan Ruby on Rachel Cusk's Life of M: "Although Cusk is a reliably effective technician, the book's primary value, like so many novels these days, is symptomatic rather than aesthetic." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Ryan Ruby, Unhappy Consciousness — Sidecar
Rachel Cusk’s ‘Life of M’.
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Matteo Pucciarelli on Roberto Vannacci: 'That the most prominent challenge to the government has emerged from the right is a reflection of the latter’s cultural hegemony in Italy today.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Matteo Pucciarelli, Meloni’s Challenger — Sidecar
The rise of Roberto Vannacci.
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In NLR 159: Manufacturing Impunity Tom Mertes on Richard Beck’s account of the origins and afterlives of America’s War on Terror. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Tony Wood on Cristina Rivera Garza's 'Autobiography of Cotton': 'Can the historical chain of developments in northern Mexico, from cotton farming to narco-violence, really be subsumed into a single campaign conducted by an unchanging state?' newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Tony Wood, Submerged Legacies — Sidecar
Cristina Rivera Garza’s ‘Autobiography of Cotton’.
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
In NLR 159: Norm Smuggling? Katie Ebner-Landy evaluates Rahel Jaeggi’s reframing of progress as social problem-solving rather than development. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
In NLR 159: Rentier Regimes Jack Copley (@jackcopley.bsky.social) assessesTimothy Mitchell’s conceptualization of capital as capture of the future. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
In NLR 159: Dynamics of American Capitalism. Javier Moreno Zacarés offers a critical appraisal of Jonathan Levy’s The Real Economy, the theoretical counterpart to his history of American capitalism. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
In NLR 159: Steppe Transitions. Christian Sorace and David Sneath present a materialist analysis of Mongolia’s transformations to socialism and capitalism. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
In NLR 159: Metamorphoses Cultural observations from a life lived through two ages: Régis Debray reflects on shifts from prospects to retrospects, page to screen and time to space. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
In NLR 159: The New World Climate Order. An interview with Thea Riofrancos (@triofrancos.bsky.social) on the current state of global climate politics, from anti-extractivist protests to the persistence of fossil capital. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
In NLR 159: Hyperpolitics in Command. Anton Jäger diagnoses the scrambled political culture of Western elites. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
NLR 159 is out now. Featuring Anton Jäger on elite political culture, Javier Moreno Zacarés on American capitalism, an interview with Thea Riofrancos on the state of world climate politics, and much more. newleftreview.org
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NLR 159, May–June 2026
NLR 159, May–June 2026. Includes articles by Tom Mertes, Jack Copley, Katie Ebner-Landy, Anton Jäger, Thea Riofrancos, Javier Moreno Zacarés, Christian Sorace, David Sneath and Régis Debray
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
In NLR 158: Western Promises. Thomas Meaney reviews Fritz Bartel’s The Triumph of Broken Promises: the end of the Cold War as a contest to impose capital’s discipline, East and West. newleftreview.org/issues/ii158...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
In NLR 158: The Art of Counter-Remembrance: Marcus Verhagen asks how art can grapple with an event like the Grenfell Tower fire. Contrasting modes of aesthetic response explored in the works of Chris Ofili, Steve McQueen and Forensic Architecture. newleftreview.org/issues/ii158...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Richard Beck on the war against Iran: ‘States can only bear the strain of such incompetent and destructive leadership for so long.’ newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Richard Beck, Core Interests — Sidecar
On Trump’s foreign policy.
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Rachel Armitage on Matthew Rices’s ‘plastic’ ( @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social ): Rancière describes ‘stolen time’ as the means ‘by which men and women wrenched themselves out of an identity formed by domination’. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Rachel Armitage, Stealing Time — Sidecar
Matthew Rice’s ‘plastic’.
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Tony Wood on elections in Peru: ‘A major factor in the opacity of Peruvian politics for outside observers is that party labels tend to hold only provisional meaning at best.’ newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Tony Wood, Hollow Thrones — Sidecar
Elections in Peru.
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
In NLR 158: Against Abolitionism Loïc Wacquant offers a sociological critique of radical calls for the abolition of police, courts and prisons. newleftreview.org/issues/ii158...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
In NLR 158: Tom Stevenson interviews Richard Overy. One of Britain’s leading historians discusses the Second World War as a terminal contest between imperial-colonial systems. newleftreview.org/issues/ii158...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
In NLR 158: Gaza as World Event. Nancy Fraser reads the global reverberations of Israel’s destruction of Gaza as a crisis point in the prevailing Western moral order. Reflections on neo-McCarthyism in Germany and the US. newleftreview.org/issues/ii158...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
In NLR 158: Beyond Neoliberalism? Nathan Sperber takes neoliberalism’s vital signs in a multidimensional analysis—what is alive and what dead across ideology, policy, accumulation regime and class domination? newleftreview.org/issues/ii158...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
In NLR 158: Trump's Gulf War. Alexander Zevin on the US-Israeli war on Iran, as an uneasy balance holds between Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz and the enormous firepower of the aggressors. newleftreview.org/issues/ii158...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
NLR 158 out now! * Alexander Zevin on Trump's Gulf War * Nancy Fraser on Gaza as world event * Nathan Sperber analyses the death and life of neoliberalism Plus: Richard Overy discusses WW2; Loïc Wacquant on prison abolition; Thomas Meaney on the Cold War and more... newleftreview.org/issues/ii158
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NLR 158, March–April 2026
NLR 158, March–April 2026. Includes articles by Nancy Fraser, Marcus Verhagen, Sebastian Veg, Nathan Sperber, Loic Wacquant, Thomas Meaney, Richard Overy and Alexander Zevin
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
In NLR 157: Party and Class. Nausicaa Renner on the Trumpian capture of the GOP. newleftreview.org/issues/ii157...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
In NLR 157, Tony Wood reads the correspondence of four titans of the Latin American novel. ‘The Boom’s repurposing of the techniques of modernism enabled it to give literary expression to the historical vertigo of Latin America’s experience of modernization’. newleftreview.org/issues/ii157...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Adam Nayman (@brofromanother.bsky.social) on Frederick Wiseman: 'He liked to cultivate cacophony: classrooms and playgrounds as echo chambers; hospitals and missile silos as makeshift soundstages; prisons and city halls as towers of babble.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Adam Nayman, The More You Know — Sidecar
Frederick Wiseman (1930-2026)
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Richard Seymour (@leninology.bsky.social) on the Iran war: 'What of the pundit class? The vacuity of the casus belli and lack of any coalition-building or jurisprudential window-dressing alarmed outlets that had been reliably pugnacious over Iraq and Ukraine.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Richard Seymour, Cognitive Dissonance — Sidecar
On the Iran war.
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Rohana Kuddus on Indonesia’s answer to Trump in NLR 157: ‘Prabowo’s first year does not herald a new regime so much as bring out into the open the long counter-Reformasi drift.’ newleftreview.org/issues/ii157...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Ma Jiajia on interpreting the Japanese elections: 'Should the hopes Takaichi has stirred prove unfounded, a sharp correction cannot be ruled out.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Ma Jiajia, Nagatachō Bubble — Sidecar
Reading the Japanese elections.
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Xi Ruochen on the history of Sinosphere publishing in NLR 157: ‘How did post-colonial Hong Kong become the platform for an alternative cultural ecology, composed of offshore publishers, critical scholars and a de-territorialized reading public?’ newleftreview.org/issues/ii157...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
In NLR 157: the New Dollar Imperialism. Costas Lapavitsas on the primacy of the dollar in shaping the world economy. newleftreview.org/issues/ii157...
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Christy Kelly-Bisson @garlicbreath644.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Brilliant article summarizing the global political moment and cautioning that we are very much in uncharted territory.
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
In NLR 157: Trump Abroad. Susan Watkins analyses the political logics behind the strategic cacophony of Trump’s fifth year. newleftreview.org/issues/ii157...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
In NLR 157: an interview with Ervand Abrahamian. A leading historian of modern Iran on the power structures of the Islamic Republic and the long-incubated American-Israeli assault. newleftreview.org/issues/ii157...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
NLR 157 is out now. Featuring an interview with Ervand Abrahamian on Iran and Susan Watkins on Trump. Also in NLR 157: Costas Lapavitsas on dollar imperialism, Xi Ruochen on Sinosphere publishing, Tony Wood on the Latin American ‘boom’ and much more. newleftreview.org/issues/ii157
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NLR 157, January–February 2026
NLR 157, January–February 2026. Includes articles by Xi Ruochen, Ervand Abrahamian, Costas Lapavitsas, Nausicaa Renner, Susan Watkins, Rohana Kuddus, Tony Wood and Emilie Bickerton
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Brasilian feminist activist Marielle Franco's killers have just been convicted. From the archive, here's an article of hers we published at the time of her assassination. newleftreview.org/issues/ii110...
Photo portrait of Marielle Franco with a crowd in the background.
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A prescient NLR editorial from early 1961, written as the Cuban Revolution came under tightening external pressure and anticipating the Bay of Pigs invasion: newleftreview.org/issues/i7/ar...
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NLR Editors, The Siege of Cuba, NLR I/7, January–February 1961
the most important events in the international socialist movement in 1960 took place in Cuba. And it may be that the most important event of 1961 will be the consolidation or overthrow of Cuba’s socia...
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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
@roblucas.bsky.social on the US attempt to strangle Cuba by cutting its fuel supply: "... between the chokepoint of oil-dependence and a green alternative... The question is whether Cuba has the capacity to hold out long enough to reach new strategic terrain." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Rob Lucas, Stranglehold? — Sidecar
On Cuba.
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Nabil Salih @nabilsalih.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"Identification with the mambise guerilla; invocation of the machete-charge; rehearsal of ‘patria o muerte’ cries – often performed at the top levels of state, these are not without their residual popular bases." On Cuba and Venezuela in @newleftreview.bsky.social newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Rob Lucas, Stranglehold? — Sidecar
On Cuba.
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