On June 8, 2026, I’ll speak on the floor of the House to honor and memorialize the brave crew of the 🇺🇸 USS Liberty who died and were wounded in an unprovoked attack by 🇮🇱 Israel on June 8, 1967. Catch my speech on @cspan.
Tom Hazeldine:
‘These were the worst midterm results for a governing party in living memory. They have tightened the net around Labour’s flailing Prime Minister…’
https://t.co/Aoixqbuo72
NLR 158 is out now.
Featuring Alexander Zevin on Trump’s Gulf War, Nathan Sperber on neoliberalism’s ends, Nancy Fraser on Gaza as world event and Richard Overy interviewed by Tom Stevenson on the Second World War.
Also in NLR 158: Loïc Wacquant on abolitionism; Marcus Verhagen on the Grenfell fire in art; plus book reviews – Sebastian Veg on Hong Kong and Thomas Meaney on the collapse of communism.
https://t.co/GWmdgUURWt
Serge Halimi reports on the French municipal elections:
'As things stand, a divided left has little prospect of victory, and not much more even were it united.'
https://t.co/VV8rjQ7Ao6
Jürgen Habermas, interviewed by Perry Anderson and Peter Dews in NLR I/151, May–June 1985:
'the Federal Republic has come so close to being the 51st State of the Union that the only thing we still don’t have is the right to vote'.
https://t.co/61VAp5BpoQ
J'ai traduit pour @SRContretemps cet article extrêmement éclairant de @roblucas sur le blocus imposé par les US à Cuba. L'auteur analyse la question énergétique et les ressources matérielles et politiques dont dispose Cuba pour affronter cette épreuve.
https://t.co/zKepgaJWbf
My piece for @NewLeftReview / Sidecar on the current US attempt to finish off Cuba via the Venezuelan oil "chokepoint".
Thanks due to Ernesto Teuma and Rolando Prats for insightful feedback.
https://t.co/8AOIHAOn9N
A prescient NLR editorial from early 1961, written as the Cuban Revolution came under tightening external pressure and anticipating the Bay of Pigs invasion:
https://t.co/jXap0tvIOa