London Review of Books

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19 November 2024 20:58

‘If the painting was nothing more than a realistic portrait of an 18th-century Black scholar in his study, that would be extraordinary enough. It’s the earliest such image in Western art, the first self-presentation of a Black person as an intellectual.’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Verso Books

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19 November 2024 20:57

Now available for pre-order: The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism by Kevin B. Anderson

LSE Blogs

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19 November 2024 20:57

Europe’s left has traditionally championed social protection, labour rights and welfare states. Yet as Virginia Crespi de Valldaura & Gianmarco Fifi (LSE European Institute) explain @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social, the left has also played a key role in sustaining and shaping neoliberalism.

The New York Times

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19 November 2024 20:55

Brazilian authorities arrested five people related to a plan to assassinate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2022, shortly before he was to become the country’s president, as part of a plot to keep the far-right incumbent president, Jair Bolsonaro, in power.

Past and Present

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19 November 2024 20:51

New on advance access: "Failure to Drain: Expert Resistance and Environmental Thought in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic" by @annalunapost.bsky.social (Utrecht) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...