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Accidental Death of an Anarchist is a 1970 play by Italian playwright Dario Fo. It was written in response to the death of Giuseppi (Pino) Pinelli, an anarchist who died while in police custody for questioning about a bombing in which he played no part. The famous 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing took place in Milan, Italy, in December 1969, at the end of a tumultuous decade. The two main political parties in Italy at the time were the Christian Democrats and the Italian Communists, with (…)

(Socialist History seminar - Institute of Historical Research, UCL)

Vox’s Sean Illing talks to Yale professor and author Jason Stanley about why American democracy provides such fertile soil for fascism, how Donald Trump demonstrated how easy it was for our country to flirt with a fascist future and what we can do about it.

("Spring’s Voices," or commonly "Voices of Spring") is an orchestral waltz, with optional solo soprano voice, written in 1882 by Johann Strauss II

In an interview that will come as a shock to most people and will probably be strenuously refuted by the government, one of India’s highly regarded economists has said that this financial year GDP will shrink by 29% whilst the Central government’s fiscal deficit will cross 15%. Speaking 48 hours before the budget, Prof. Arun Kumar, the Malcolm S. Adiseshiah Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences and earlier Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, says that his calculations show that (…)

A 90-minute online conversation with Mike Davis and Rob Wallace on the issue of the pandemic in the world

Ours is an age of ideology. Ideology is a means of submerging everyday existence into a dream-like waiting room. Ideologically-sustained life is a relentless deferral of presence on behalf of a hoped-for glorious future. Our gaze is prompted backward and forward, the future being the domain wherein the past may be rectified. If the criterion of truth is not in agreement with reality, but in agreement with the spirit of a nation, class or caste, then apparently, truth has been replaced by perspective; theory by interpretation; presence by transience; and actuality by possibility. We are left with neither knowledge nor wisdom, but recipes for endless conflict and linguistic chaos. Such are the dimensions of contemporary nihilism.

lecture by Dr. David Washbrook (St Antony’s College, University of Oxford) on 16 Nov 2005.