Susan Watkins: Casting Off? How to assess the latest set-back for the European Union: the vote to leave by its second-largest state? Complex determinants of the Brexit protest—party-political contingencies played out against topographies of class and sub-national disaffection—met by single-minded condemnation of it by the global elite. Malcolm Bull: Softening Up the State Wha…
Susan Watkins: Oppositions After years of economic crisis and social protest, the cartel parties of the extreme centre now face a challenge to their dominance from outside-left forces in a number of Western countries. Contours of the emergent left oppositions, their platforms and figureheads, from Tsipras to Corbyn, Sanders to Mélenchon, Grillo to Iglesias. Luc Boltanski, Arnaud Esquerre: …
Perry Anderson: Renewals As New Left Review enters its fifth decade, a stock-taking of the journal. Where has it come from, and where is it going? How should the political and cultural scene of the nineties be assessed? A manifesto for the new series of NLR that begins with this issue. R. Taggart Murphy: Japan's Economic Crisis The 20th century’s most dynamic economy has fallen into prolon…