Islamic Imperialism: A History  

In the Summer of 1993 Samuel Huntington published his influential essay ‘Clash of Civilizations?’ in the journal Foreign Affairs. A book followed, minus the question mark, in 1996. His central thesis: many contemporary conflicts are expressions of an underlying clash …





Archive: The Left and Korea  

Editor’s Note: Susan Green’s article was published as ‘Summing up the discussion on the Korean Statement’ in Forum, the internal bulletin of The Independent Socialist League, in 1950. [1] The ISL (called the Workers Party from 1940-49) was a small …



The Euston Manifesto  

Editor’s Note: The Euston Manifesto – a call for the renewal of progressive politics – was launched online on 13 April 2006, and at a 250-strong meeting in London on May 25 2006. It was written by the Euston Manifesto …





Editor’s Page  

Speaking on the BBC, the political commentator David Wilby called The Euston Manifesto ‘more than a set of principles, it’s a phenomenon.’ When the Manifesto was launched in April the writer Will Hutton expressed the hope it would ‘offer a …







Vietnamisation or Somaliasation?  

One short week at the beginning of June 2006 serves to remind the dreamers of eternal peace of the implacable permanence of chaos. Tiny East Timor with one million inhabitants, controlled by an estimable Nobel Prize winner and inundated by …