https://newleftreview.org/feed Articles from the latest issue of New Left Review. en-gb mail@newleftreview.org web@newleftreview.org Asymmetries of the US-Israeli assault on Iran, as an uneasy balance holds between Tehran’s tourniquet on the Strait of Hormuz—and the world economy—and the enormous firepower of the aggressors, at the end of the first round. https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii158/articles/alexander-zevin-trump-s-gulf-war https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii158/articles/alexander-zevin-trump-s-gulf-war 2026-04-30 00:00:00 UTC United States Iran New Left Review: current issue Investigating the persistence—or retreat—of capital’s great prog­rammatic offensive, along its many fronts: ideological struggle, policy prescription, macro-regulation of economic life, class direction. A multi-dimensional analysis of an uneven condition. https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii158/articles/nathan-sperber-beyond-neoliberalism https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii158/articles/nathan-sperber-beyond-neoliberalism 2026-04-30 00:00:00 UTC World Economy and Globalization Economic Policy Economic Theory New Left Review: current issue The global reverberations of Israel’s destruction of Gaza, understood as world event—an epochal turning point which serves to reveal the changing nature of the times. Philosophical reflections on the rise of a new-era McCarthyism in Germany and the US. https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii158/articles/nancy-fraser-gaza-as-world-event https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii158/articles/nancy-fraser-gaza-as-world-event 2026-04-30 00:00:00 UTC Palestine/Israel New Left Review: current issue Interviewed by Tom Stevenson, one of Britain’s leading historians discusses the development of his understanding of the war as a terminal clash between imperial-colonial systems, built on close analysis of its interrelated military, political and economic dimensions. https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii158/articles/rethinking-the-second-world-war https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii158/articles/rethinking-the-second-world-war 2026-04-30 00:00:00 UTC History and Historiography New Left Review: current issue A sociological critique of calls for the wholesale elimination of police, courts and prisons, arguing instead for a radical ‘penal minimalism’—a better-funded system, with fewer suspects funnelled into it, and imprisonment a punishment of last resort. https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii158/articles/loic-wacquant-against-abolitionism https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii158/articles/loic-wacquant-against-abolitionism 2026-04-30 00:00:00 UTC Social Theory New Left Review: current issue In 2017, a fire killed 72 residents of Grenfell Tower in West London, exposing a bleak background of neglect. How can art grapple with such an event? Contrasting modes of aesthetic response explored in the works of Chris Ofili, Steve McQueen and Forensic Architecture. https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii158/articles/marcus-verhagen-the-art-of-counter-remembrance https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii158/articles/marcus-verhagen-the-art-of-counter-remembrance 2026-04-30 00:00:00 UTC Art New Left Review: current issue Sebastian Veg on Ming-Sho Ho, Be Water; Ching Kwan Lee, Forever Hong Kong; Edmund Cheng and Samson Yuen, The Making of Leaderful Mobilization. Studies of Hong Kong’s 2019 protests. https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii158/articles/sebastian-veg-three-vistas-of-hong-kong https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii158/articles/sebastian-veg-three-vistas-of-hong-kong 2026-04-30 00:00:00 UTC China Movements New Left Review: current issue Thomas Meaney on Fritz Bartel, The Triumph of Broken Promises. The Cold War’s end recast as upshot of a contest to enforce capital’s discipline, East and West. https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii158/articles/thomas-meaney-western-promises https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii158/articles/thomas-meaney-western-promises 2026-04-30 00:00:00 UTC Soviet Union and Russia United States Europe New Left Review: current issue