A country where the kitchen is a male only room

In Basque Country, the Sociedades Populares, born at the end of the 1800, are a place that keeps alive a peculiar national identity. Up until a few years ago, it was forbidden for many societies to allow women, also preventing their access to the…

If Algeria explodes, we’re all in trouble

North Africa. With President Abdelaziz Bouteflika increasingly ill, the signs of a quiet power struggle are showing. If the tension bursts, the devastation would be far worse than the Algerian war of the ’90s or the Libyan conflict.

The living dictionary of Marx

Interview. The German philosopher Peter Jehle, editorial director of the Institute of Critical Theory, discusses the continuing relevance of the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism, now nine volumes long.

il manifesto brings its iconic journalism to an English audience

editorial by il manifesto, Nov. 12 2015

Xylella bacteria, olive trees and bad politics

by Lorenzo Vitelli, il manifesto global, Nov. 25 2015

il manifesto brings its iconic journalism to an English audience

Italy’s new ‘license to kill’

War. Italy will soon be the second European power, after the U.K., to wield lethal, American-armed drones…