History
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Maidan over: The balance of power in Ukraine
While Ukraine’s oligarchic elite aspires to become a ruling class, it is also the object of an ongoing competition between Russia and the west to draw it into their respective transnational capitalist classes, writes Marko Bojcun
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Shirkers and conchies: how governments tried to silence First World War resisters
Peace activists against the First World War were treated as enemies by their government, but left a legacy of perserverance writes Tim Gee
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Papal bull
The left should praise the Lord for the Pope, says Terry Eagleton. The Catholic church is the best recruiting sergeant we could hope for
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Afghanistan: a brief history
Understanding Afghanistan today is only possible by looking at it in the context of the part played by the competing imperial powers in its past. Jane Shallice offers a guide
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The Politics of Bob Dylan
The protest songs for which Bob Dylan is most famous were written in a 20-month burst in the early 1960s. Within a year Dylan had turned his back on them – not in renunciation of politics, argues Mike Marqusee, but to pursue a deeper kind of radicalism
