Since the 1960s, the Australian historian Sheila Fitzpatrick has devoted her career to trying to understand the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics — what it was, how it worked, and what it meant. Her work, based always on close reading of the archives, was at the forefront of an unofficial ‘revisionist’ school of social historians. […]
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Last year marked the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution, Christopher Hill’s influential study of the Diggers, Levellers, Ranters and other radicals of the seventeenth century. The World Turned Upside Down, which was adapted for the stage by Keith Dewhurst and performed at the […]
Around five years ago, the Culture section of the relaunched Tribune began with an editorial, which included the line: ‘The Tribune Culture section aims to contribute to the development of a countercultural way of thinking and acting.’ That is what we’ve been trying to do in the back pages of this magazine ever since. Because […]
A lot of ink has been spilled in the trenches of nineties revisionism, not least on the Britpop front. Britpop’s status in ‘ninetiesology’ is based on its place alongside Blairism as an example of pop and politics in lockstep, both gaining mainstream approval but losing their residual and potential radicalism in the process. In this […]
Cornelius Cardew’s diary entry for 10 May 1974 read simply, ‘Leave Elm Grove Road. Scratch dissolved.’ Over the course of the previous ten years, he had gone from being Britain’s leading voice in the dissemination of modernist composition and one of its greatest virtuoso pianists to becoming a member of the pioneering free improvisation group […]
When Langston Hughes toured Soviet Central Asia in the early 1930s, he noted parallels between the Jim Crow–era American South and the Tsarist Uzbek ‘South’: both were cotton-producing regions and both were home to racially oppressed populations who laboured unfreely for their white masters. But this similarity, he claimed, lay in the past. The transformations […]
Excess savings created from past federal aid indicate consumption will likely remain high. This suggests inflationary pressures may persist despite the Fed’s tightening.
When ministers and police argue the ability to protest is based on ‘context’ like TV viewing figures at the King's coronation, it ceases to exist, says Josiah Mortimer
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"Where did our profits go?" and other scab scripts.
The arrest of two heavily armed French neo-Nazis returning from Ukraine highlights a looming problem for NATO states sponsoring the proxy war, and their conspiracy of silence on the nature of the threat. On April 24th 2023, two French neo-Nazis were jailed for 15 months, nine of which were suspended, for possessing assault rifle ammunition. The pair had returned to Paris from Ukraine two days earlier, and were arrested at customs. Both were on the radar of French domestic spying […]
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A Ukrainian media group partnered with BBC, Der Spiegel and other Western outlets polled readers on which Russian intellectual should be assassinated following a car bomb attack on writer Zakhar Prilepin. The Biden administration has greenlit Kiev’s campaign of terror. Hours after Russian writer and activist Zakhar Prilepin was nearly killed in a targeted car bomb, a popular Ukrainian news agency submitted a poll that asked its readers, “Who do you think should be next in the Russian pantheon of […]
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Over 1000 people packed the streets of Port Kembla as unions, Labor Party members, anti-war activists and the local community marched to oppose plans for a nuclear submarine base.
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On 17th April, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra conferred on me the title of Doctor Honoris Causa, at a public ceremony. I attended online since I am not able to travel long-distance at present. UPF is a major public university in Barcelona, named for Pompeu Fabra, a celebrated linguist who was a key figure in the Catalan cultural revival of the early 20th century.
For an academic worker, an honorary doctorate is a public recognition of one's contribution to a field of knowledge, but also, importantly, a recognition of the field itself and its value. In this case, the study of social hierarchies of class and gender, the study of masculinities, and struggles for social justice and peace.
If you want to understand what’s wrong with out politics, look no further than this chart YouGov survey: The only news the right fully trusts are propaganda outfits, Breitbart, The Federalist, Fox News, OAN and Newsmax. Astonishingly, more Democrats than Republicans trust right wing rags like the National Review, Washington Examiner and the Daily Caller. These people are living way down deep in the wingnut rabbit hole and they have completely lost touch with reality.
Biden may have no choice There’s a lot of talk these days about Biden citing the 14th amendment to unilaterally lift the debt ceiling if it comes down to that. (Actually it’s just him directing the treasury dept. to pay the bills the government has incurred.) I thought you might be interested in this analysis of the subject by legal expert Garret Epps: John Perry, a wealthy patriot, boosted the American war effort in 1918 by subscribing to the Fourth Liberty Loan. For $10,000, he bought a bond payable in 1934 “in United States gold coin of the present standard of value.” By Perry’s calculation of the price of gold, that meant that in 1934 he was entitled to a payback in the value of $16,931.25. Unfortunately for Perry, U.S. dollars were no longer backed by gold in 1934, and there were no legal gold coins. Among the effects of the Great Depression was radical deflation—as money got scarcer, those who still had dollars could buy more goods and services than before the crash. So, on June 5, 1933, Congress passed a Joint Resolution declaring such “gold clauses” invalid.
Our minds haven’t evolved to deal with machines we believe have consciousness.
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One question for Julie Castillo-Rogez, a planetary geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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He was also a Nazi We know now that he was a white supremacist incel. Here’s one of his posts on social media: It sounds like some kind of joke. (He even mentions that Hitler got Germany out of an economic recession!) But it’s not. This guy’s social media is full of stuff like this. He hits all the talking points. I hope that monster “Libs of Tik Tok” feels good about herself today. She really helped save the children last weekend.
Peter Dutton’s number two (for now) Sussan Ley has condemned Labor for delivering a budget surplus instead of a budget ssurplus. ”Mr Albanese needs to have a good hard look at himself and apologise to the Australian people,” said Susssan... Read More ›