It’s indispensable: it’s necessary to be concerned about Trump’s new expansionist threat: the US would take control of the Gaza Strip, a proposal that many sectors of world opinion have taken to be another stage in the process of “ethnic cleansing” carried out by Israel against the people of Gaza. […]
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Leisure time in South Korea
The stresses and contradictions afflicting South Korea have been writing their own headlines recently with prosecutors minded to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of leading an insurrection with his short-lived imposition of martial law on December 3. Sean Sheehan Meanwhile, people go about their daily lives […]
Lumpenisation of politics and anglo-saxon supremacy
Underlying the recent diplomatic tension between the United States and Colombia, relating to the repatriation of some immigrants, are at least three phenomena: the bankarisation or corporatisation of democracy, the lumpenisation of politics and anglo-saxon supremacy. Germán Ayala Osorio The three phenomena serve to explain and understand a […]
Behind the wall of life, the nightmare of death
While the world watches and demands a solution to the Palestinian issue, which would put an end to more than 70 years of conflict and occupation, the small Rafah border crossing is playing a central role in keeping more than 2,000,000 people alive, besieged in a barely 360 square kilometre […]
No scars of vulgar Marxism in Fredric Jameson
The great Fredric Jameson died in September 2024 and it is shocking to realize that he will no longer be writing outstanding pieces of literary criticism. Sean Sheehan ”Inventions of a present”, various essays he wrote mostly for New Left Review and London Review of Books, is a […]
















