In 2020 Bulgaria joined the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, designed to maintain a stable exchange system between the euro ...

In a poem called ‘Berlin’, from Being Reflected Upon (2024) she talks about that afternoon: ‘I like to sit on a park bench ...

As we go to press, Régis Debray is about to stand trial in Bolivia. The military authorities who claim to try him have announced him in advance ‘guilty’ of the fabricated charges against him. The ...

The lifetime of Auguste Blanqui (1805–81) coincides with the rise and fall of the secret society as an effective harbinger of socialism. Auguste Blanqui was the son of a low rank imperial official; ...

NLR 153, May–June 2025. Includes articles by NLR Editors, Zhang Yongle, Michael Levien, Roberto Schwarz, Alyssa Battistoni, Aaron Benanav and Michael Burawoy ...

Michael Burawoy was born in Manchester in 1947, the second child of two Jewish-émigré scientists. His parents—Ida, brought up between Riga and St Petersburg, and Abram, born in what was then ...

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 ...

To what extent can the situation of the Latin American republics be likened to that of other semi-colonial nations? 1 Their economic position is undoubtedly semi-colonial; and as native capitalism ...

Robert Gordon’s Rise and Fall of American Growth offers a vast narrative, encompassing some 150 years of us economic history since 1870, with prospective views up to 2040 or so. 1 The conclusion is ...