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• The role of the political

  Challenges and dilemmas of the public intellectual

  27 March 2008, by BELLO Walden

  Excerpts from acceptance speech at the Outstanding Public Scholar Award Panel, International Studies Association, 49th Annual Convention, San Francisco, California, March 27, 2008. Bello was the second recipient of the award, the first being Dr. Susan George in 2007. Members of the panel (...)

• The role of the political

  The commons, the state and transformative politics

  December 2007, by WAINWRIGHT Hilary

  Hilary Wainwright examines how new technology and new forms of organisation are coming together to transform the left and labour movements, political representation and democracy.
  The resistance to the G8 in Rostok in June this year had a particularly varied and energetic character. A massive (...)

• The role of the political

  The Anti-Political ‘Concept of the Political’: The Political Economy of Carl Schmitt

  20 April 2007, by JUEGO Bonn

  ‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less’. ‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master – that’s all.’ (...)

• The role of the political

  Imagine there’s no leaders

  1 October 2006, by PLATT Steve, WAINWRIGHT Hilary

  It’s easy if you try...But is it? The problem of leadership runs right through this issue of Red Pepper. Three leaders representing parties of different shades of the left – Tony Blair, Tommy Sheridan and President Lula – have each arguably all but destroyed the parties they were elected to (...)

• The role of the political

  Toward A New Radical Politics

  8 August 2006, by ALI Tariq, AUSTIN Paige

  Interview: A lion of the literary left on the war in Lebanon, U.S. imperialism, and the prospects for reform in the Middle East.
  Tariq Ali’s books garner wildly emphatic reviews on Amazon.com, alternately adoring and scathing depending on the politics of the reviewer—the kind of polarzied (...)

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  Alain Badiou and the Miracle of the Event

  2004, by BENSAÏD Daniel

  Marx had the temerity to declare that philosophy would eventually wither away through the accomplishment of its own strategic development: it was now no longer merely a matter of interpreting the world, but of changing it. Today, by way of contrast, Alain Badiou proposes to reiterate the (...)

• The role of the political

  Leninism Today

  November 2001, by BENSAÏD Daniel

  Daniel Bensaïd, a central leader of the French Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire (LCR), spoke on ’Leninism in the 21st century’ at the ’Marxism 2001’ event organised by the British SWP. Phil Hearse spoke to him there.
  Q. Lenin made important contributions to Marxist thinking about imperialism, the (...)