Politics for a Rational Left subject-art-culture first published in Hebrew in

first published in Hebrew in 1975 and now available in English for the first time with an introduction by Noam Chomsky

Alien Zone II presents some of the most exciting new voices in the current debates

is above all a survivor who has been a government minister since 1979

A casualty of modernization

Politics for a Rational Left subject-art-culture first published in Hebrew inIn this book, Eric Hobsbawm, one of Britain's most distinguished historians, tackles the current impasse of the left. In a series of cogent and elegant contributions he elaborates a strategy for the defeat of Thatcherism and the opening of a new era of progressive and democratic politics. Hobsbawm situates the left's recent difficulties within a longer historical perspective: the epochal crisis of the 'classic labour movement' created by new patterns