The year of 1968 signifies not only the climax of the global student movement. That year also witnessed a series of dramatic political events around the world. 1968 is associated with the Tet ...

You’re Dead to Me Radio 4/BBC Sounds, 10am Greg Jenner certainly has a knack for making history amusing, a gift he ...

How do we understand Global Capitalism and the World We Live In? Sven Beckert, Capitalism: a global history, Allen Lane £50.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.” That was Karl Marx, but it could as easily have ...

Friedrich Engels co-authored the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx. As such, he ought to be one of history’s most reviled ...

For this issue, Insurgent Notes has asked a dozen comrades from Europe and the United States who “lived” “1968” as conscious political activists the question: How present or absent was the thought of ...

Victor Grossman, an outspoken critic of capitalism, was once an Army private named Stephen Wechsler. He has died at age 97.

Good books offer new arguments, while excellent books pose new questions. Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts, on the unfinished ...

Fifty years ago, Sweden attempted the most ambitious democratic transition to socialism ever. Its architect, a Jewish ...

Well Merry Christmas! Yes, in the midst of all the family chaos, the tree decorating, present wrapping and stocking stuffing — not to mention leaving that midnight snack out for Santa! — if you’re ...

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.” That was Karl Marx, but it could as easily have been Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, one of the world’s leading AI ...