The Meaning of Work

75 years after the triumph over Nazism, we look back to when socialists gave birth to Antifa.

  We have waited a long time for this war's All Quiet on the Western Front', wrote the critic V.S. Pritchett in 1948. ‘Here it is.' Pritchet

Boris Groys asks: Why do people work?

Steven Knight’s new adaptation of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations adds drug addiction, the slave trade and even sadomasochistic sex. Bu

Where do working-class women who are literary and experimental find, first, their models, and next, their readership?

by Aidan Ratchford // On the fifty-fifth anniversary his death, we're reading the young Guevara’s ‘The US Working-Class: Friend or Enemy?

How can we understand the current wave of strikes as part of a longer struggle around the value of care work? Emily Baughan reflects from th

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Communists who came to the Soviet Union seeking refuge found themselves caught up in the madness of the Stalinist purges. But many, argued I

Dan Sinykin breaks down the Post45 Data Collective set on literary awards compiled by Stephanie Young and Juliana Spahr....

A thing of beauty and permanence in an age of transience. Since 1998.

Why would my students pay attention to my views on Brexit when I can’t even get them to stop using the word relatable...

The West’s favored form of self-government is looking creaky. A legal scholar and a philosopher propose some alternatives.

Theodor Bergmann, the last surviving member of the pre–World War II German Communist movement, spoke to Jacobin.