Despite its heavily eurocentric outlook, Thomas Piketty's much heralded volume of the moment is an epic and groundbreaking study of national inequalities that deserves to be read by everyone, argues Rohail Ahmad.
While most of the national coverage of Thursday's elections has been about the surge of UKIP, one of the most remarkable upsets has gone unnoticed: the re-election of Britain’s first elected Asian Mayor, Lutfur Rahman, in the face of a virulent campaign by the political and media establishment. Ashok Kumar reports.
In the second installment of his ten-part series on Badiou, Andrew Robinson explains the specific claims of Badiou's philosophy: the necessity of a transcendent “one” for social order, the appeal to mathematical set theory, and the rejection of qualitative or “substantial” references in philosophy.
The 'Live Below The Line' campaign, ostensibly aimed at highlighting the plight of the poor, seems to have turned into yet another conduit for putting people who are already privileged in the limelight, argues Maya Oppenheim.
This month, Britain’s immigrant ‘detention estate’ has been rocked by one of the largest protests to date, yet another consequence of the climate of hatred, fear and racism so deeply embedded in Britain’s squalid current ‘debate’ about immigration, argues Matt Carr in his latest column.
Facing the planned shutdown of Rote Flora, a long-running social centre, protesters in Hamburg took to the streets late last year - only to be met with the imposition of a draconian 'danger zone'. Creative responses to the zone were key to undermining it, however, argue Leoni Linek and Jakob Schaefer.
'Until the Rulers Obey', a newly published volume edited by Clifton Ross and Marcy Rein, provides an invaluable panorama of Latin America in movement, and should be required reading for all scholars and activists with an interest in the birth of another world in the region, argues Puneet Dhaliwal.
This weekend, the Bahraini King is attending the Royal Windsor Horse Show while Prince Andrew is due to open a Bahraini-sponsored exhibition. This is the latest episode in Britain's ongoing betrayal of the Bahraini people, argues Alastair Sloan.