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New on the LRB Podcast this evening: Yezid Sayigh يزيد صايغ talks to Adam Shatz about why Hamas’s 7 October attacks reflected an erosion of Palestinian leadership, and why a new vision of Palestinian liberation, rooted in progressive ideals, is needed. lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-v…

The chronicler of the life and ideas of Lucien Goldmann recalls what drew him to the writings of the Romanian-French Marxist at the tail-end of the countercultural revolution. Read Mitchell Cohen, via L’Espill PUV eurozine.com/in-search-of-l…

If 5/11/24 turns out to be a key moment in the collapse of US liberal democracy, future historians will need to account for it both in terms of the transformation of political culture, and as the outcome of a series of concrete political decisions, as Bracher analysed Weimar.

There will be 1,000 post mortems that claim Dems didn't try to reach working class voters. But this is largely an evasion. It elides the tougher questions, which are: *Why* weren't working class voters moved by the most pro-labor admin in recent memory, by massive new investments

No solace like Stuart Hall when you've hit rock bottom.

More errant socialists, this time from Wendy Brown, though she does grasp the magnitude of it.

No errant socialists in The Point Magazine, but their expiation certainly required a deep dark night of soul

No errant socialists in New Left Review either, though plenty of Gramsci

Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's nominee to direct American intelligence, asserts that Zelensky's Ukraine is an antidemocratic autocracy like Putin's Russia. She spouts pro-Assad talking points. And she believes that Saudi Arabia & Turkey aspire to create a radical Islamist caliphate.

The geography of Israeli settler colonialism; queer perspectives on the war in Ukraine; the experiences of Afghan ‘returnees’; and the familiar pattern of UK Labourism, Review of Soundings Journal 87 (2024) eurozine.com/layers-of-disp…

„Feuerdörfer“ gilt in #Belarus als Schlüsseltext zur Erinnerung an die NS-Verbrechen im 2.WK Auf Deutsch gab es das #Buch ein halbes Jahrhundert lang nicht. dekoder-Special über #Zeitzeugen|berichte, die in der Erinnerungskultur hierzulande fehlen: specials.dekoder.org/de/feuerdoerfer 1/2

In his new book Ilan Pappe details the historical alliance between Christian Zionism and the Israel lobby in the US: timely in light of positions of Trump appointees on the ME as well as discussion around impacts of Dem's stance on Gaza Oneworld Publications oneworld-publications.com/work/lobbying-…

A democrat cannot be compared to a terrorist, therefore he has not committed a crime. A democrat has not committed a crime, therefore he cannot be compared to a terrorist. Absurd?

FPÖ: Der ORF muss ein Spiegelbild der Gesellschaft sein. ORF:

#Culture strikes back: #Slovakia’s cultural sector under attack from right-wing government, engages in collective #action, supporting those on #strike despite fear for personal safety, writes Tomáš Hučko from Kapitál eurozine.com/culture-strike…

Statement from The White Helmets (Syria Civil Defence) to the Syrian People on the Collapse of the Regime Read the statement here: whitehelmets.org/index.php/node… #WhiteHelmets #Syria

Words of wisdom from Claire Potter 🇺🇸 including the observation that the Trump/Musk partnership has a best-before date sooner than generally assumed.

Many people associate atrocities and mass violence with images of eccentric Leaders: the silhouette of Hitler or Stalin is equally recognizable throughout the world, even without specific facial features. But today Izolyatsia' doors or Sednaya' shoes wear Italian suits and

‘The Syrian tragedy cannot be summed up simply as the murder of hundreds of thousands of human beings; it also involved the denial of any meaning to the extreme suffering of the Syrian people.’ Yassin al-Haj Saleh in interview with Revue Esprit eurozine.com/the-art-of-des…

The outbreak of the Lebanese civil war fifty years ago inaugurated an era of nation-state collapse in the Arab world. Hamit Bozarslan on the ‘Arab Apocalypse’, via Revue Esprit Cairn.info