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The Labour Party had three leaders in the 1980s. None found the experience fulfilling. James Callaghan, Michael Foot, and Neil Kinnock, as leaders do, sought to convey their purpose, and to shape the party; it was their misfortune to try... more
This bibliography is not exhaustive owing, in part, to three constraints: books, in English, with a largely (thus not exclusively) North American orientation. In addition, this compilation assumes the 1950s spill over into the 1960s and... more
This article examines the interplay between city and country in the earliest years of the Cuban Revolution of 1959. It argues that the mass movement of Cubans, especially youths, between urban and rural areas was a major factor in... more
Esej J.J. Lipskiego zostaje odczytany jako manifest opozycyjnej lewicy laickiej, atakowanej w 1981 roku z jednej strony przez „prawdziwych Polaków” w „Solidarności”, z drugiej – przez reżimową organizację „Grunwald”. Projekt osadzonego w... more
After being ousted in a civic-military coup, the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party came back to power in Bolivia in the elections held in October 2020. The coup had installed an extreme right wing regime that tried to restore the... more
In the article, the author is surveying the scientific discourse on political threads embraced in the Kapuściński non-fiction biography written by Artur Domosławski. This discourse spectacularly reveals the wider problem with the... more
The ‘Bolivarian Revolution’ in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez has reignited debate in Latin America and internationally on the questions of socialism and revolution. This forum brings together six leading intellectuals from different... more