Jaw dropping stuff from Verso books: a new publication called ‘The case for sanctions against Israel’ features articles by John Berger, Angela Davis, Naomi Klein and Slavoj Zizek. In the Guardian newspaper today there is a feature on the lack of women’s rights in Gaza, and how things have regressed there since Hamas have been [...]

All I know I am not a Marxist – Karl Marx A further reading of his recent text published in the New Left Review reveals that Clark must be lost in the maze of trying to understand modern capitalism. There is no doubt that T.J. Clark is a very learned person, his work on the [...]

It was a fresco of Britain through the ages, it looked straight out of EP Thompson’s book The Making of the English Working Class, but in this case it included aspects from all Britain. Some Conservative MP Aidan Burley is in trouble when he tweeted that the Olympics opening was “multi-cultural crap”. He also described [...]

Saturday: a march against sleazy Boris, corporate bullshit, crap jobs, militarisation of peoples’ homes and not least the the infantilization of the human race. Details here.

Which was published on the New Left Review’s website. At first glance it looks quite a learned text. He writes well, he quotes well. Some ideas are well meaning for example he wants his “notes to be addressed to a left root and branch opposition to capitalism”. That is a good idea, the only trouble [...]

Tyburn is not strictly part of the Marble Arch quarter and what with its gruesome history it merits a separate ride. Two hundred metres from the glorified roundabout that is Marble Arch a different world awaits. It is one of imposing townhouses facing onto Hyde Park. The atmosphere of money and exclusion is almost touchable [...]

Socialism of the Producers as Logical Impossibility Part One The Ontology of Labour No socialism of any kind is possible within the horizons of the ontology of labour, which is to say that the commodity form of social reproduction can only be overthrown together with “labour”. This, however, is just as unthinkable for the typical [...]

This article by Rasmus Fleischer was first published in the Swedish magazine Subaltern in late 2011. Quarter of a century ago, the Nürnberg school of Wertkritik (value-critical theory) emerged as a project to develop a third critical theory, pertinent to the third industrial revolution. This essay aims to outline some recurrent figures of thought within [...]

A deeper critique of the Euro crisis here than can be expected from the Lackavista’s and Seymour’s of the world, who fetishize labour and put forward scenario’s of misery as a solution. The painting Fear of the abstract, above, is by Mark Peronnet

Robert Kurz, Marxian philosopher, journalist and editor of the journal Exit! sadly passed away on 18 July 2012, aged 68. Robert Kurz was one of very few people in recent years with the ability to analyse the capitalist system at the level of its own sophisticated terms. His finest writings have yet to be translated [...]