In-depth to say the least (it's 55 pages if you print it out) interview with marxist writer/activist and recent Mute collabor Loren Goldner by the South Korean SaNoShin group, covering the 20th century history of class struggle and present developments/future prospects.
From Goldner's Break Their Haughty Power website (http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner/)

On the pretext of a child sexual abuse crisis in Australia’s Northern Territory the Howard government passed emergency legislation and prepared a land invasion of aboriginal areas by police, doctors and the army. Elizabeth Povinelli locates this latest state of exception in a wider neoliberal project to impose work and austerity. Images and text box by Benedict Seymour

The notion of the 'failed state' is recurrently invoked to justify military and security interventions. Reviewing two books which take so-called failed states in Africa and South America as their object of enquiry, Angela Mitropoulos questions the founding premises of 'successful' national sovereignty

The liquidity crisis currently wiping billions off global stock markets is just the tip of a very big iceberg. Beneath the credit crunch and incipient insolvency crisis lie the economic and political crisis of the USA’s global reign, claims Loren Goldner. But will this mean global depression, wars and intensified authoritarianism, or a renewed opportunity for communism? Goldner returns to the theories of Marx and Luxemburg to examine today's financial and military imperialism, and its left wing ‘anti-imperialist’ mirror

Here a text we published recently in the Dutch magazine Flexmens. It's quite an impressive analysis on the circumstances surrounding the murder of the Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, in Januari this year. An attack on Turkish nationalism and western xenophobia.

Nationalism and its Discontents

On the murder of Hrant Dink

In shock I scan the past two and a half months’ online news sources about the assassination of the journalist Hrant Dink, shot in Istanbul on January 19, 2007 in front of his bilingual newspaper Agos, by the seventeen year old O.S. I am shocked by the tacit and explicit racism I see in the commentary sections. It's present in Turkish, European and American sources: Racism against Armenians in Turkish news sources and web sites of Turkish communities throughout Europe. Racism against Turks in Dutch and English news blogs.

Since 2004 the rhetoric of Bush’s republican party has turned curiously green, integrating climate change as a legitimation for neoliberal imperialism. At the same time the unintended consequence of America’s unsuccessful adventures has been to enrich an ‘anti-neoliberal’ class of oil rentiers in Africa, Latin America and Asia. George Caffentzis plots the changes in the US energy policy as it turns from eco-naysayer to ecowarrior

From New Left Review, an overview of Putin's Russia which avoids the usual cliches about authoritarian nationalism versus oligarchic anarchy etc.  While a state apparatus riddled (compared to, say, the late 'Soviet' Politburo) with serving security personnel is active at evey level of business, so representation of the business elite within the state has actually expanded significantly since the Yeltsin era.  Unprecedented growth of state bureacracy is complimented by what some analysts call exceptional 'non-institutionalization' of public life, and certainly by the complimentary growth of a structurally essential informal-criminal sector.   And underlying the administration's play for geopolitcal prestige is the policy of holding oil proceeds in dollars and euros, committing the country to what Wood calls 'deferred suicide' through non-reproduction (eg. one hospital in five lacks hot water and sewage facilities).

East Art Map – the book – is part of an ambitious interactive project to ‘(re)construct’ the history of contemporary art in Eastern Europe.

In his latest book Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination, Benedict Anderson advances his longstanding ambition to rehabilitate the image of nationalism. Through a collaged history of the late 19^th century, Anderson forges uncanny connections between anarchism and anti-colonial bourgeois nationalism. The interconnections between these autonomous forces, and not Marxism's internationalism, supposedly provide today's alter-globalisation movement with its pre-history. But, asks Esther Leslie, how many get to share in this 'globalised sensibility'?