Robin Blackburn
Robin Blackburn is a historian and sociologist, and one of New Left Review’s editors.

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Calendar

July 2006
Portugal

New Left Review

'Financialization and the Fourth Dimension'
New Left Review, May-June 2006

'Imperial Margarine'
New Left Review, Sep-Oct 2005

'Capital and Social Europe'
New Left Review, July-Aug 2005

'Creed and Conquest'
New Left Review, Mar-Apr 2005

'Symptoms of Euro-Denial'
New Left Review, Nov-Dec 2002

'The Enron Debacle'
New Left Review, Mar-Apr 2002

'Cuba Under the Hammer'
New Left Review, Jul-Aug 2000

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Articles

'When I'm 65'
London Review of Books,
19 February 2004

'To settle and rule'
Times Literary Supplement,
23 October 1998

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Banking on Death
Verso, 2002