Judith Butler’s book Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, first published in 1990, made her the star of a new feminism linked to poststructuralism and queer theory. Butler’s work also produced massive controversy. Feminist writer Martha Nussbaum damned… Continue Reading
The 60th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, could not have arrived at a more politically charged moment. In Iraq the former D-Day Allies are ‘standing shoulder to shoulder’ again. But this time the… Continue Reading
The result of India’s election in mid-May shook observers of all sorts. Everyone, on the left and right alike, expected the Hindu chauvinist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to romp home to another five-year term. There was little else but deep… Continue Reading
Tom Behan interviews the national secretary of the Party of Communist Refoundation Continue Reading
Capitalism is a peculiar form of class society. Like previous class societies it involves a minority section of society grabbing the surplus created by the toil of the rest of society. But there are important differences. Previous ruling classes simply… Continue Reading
Liberalisation, deregulation and the forms of ‘globalisation’ they lead to tend to be taken by academic economists and researchers somewhat too easily as parameters which are difficult, possibly even pointless, to challenge. When challenge does emerge, be it quite moderate… Continue Reading
The start of the 2003 school year saw two young women, Alma and Lila, excluded from a secondary school in France for wearing the Muslim headscarf, or hijab. This new ‘headscarf affair’ has revived a debate going back 15 years… Continue Reading
For over ten years the US’s rulers have been obsessed with China’s threat to their domination of the world. Economically, politically and militarily China is a world power that the US cannot control and cannot ignore. Indeed, the Project for… Continue Reading
Food has become one of the most important political questions addressed by the anti-capitalist movement. The movement’s protests placed agricultural questions at the WTO conferences, in Seattle in 1999 and again in Cancun in 2003, at the centre of the… Continue Reading
Women are more visible than they have ever been in history. They perform much of the paid labour of the world and the majority of the unpaid labour. Women work the majority of total hours in the world, but work… Continue Reading