The Top 20 articles of 2023 display the span of critical international issues covered by our collection of 20 radical Social science titles.

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We thought it would be a good opportunity to focus on the top articles by usage that Pluto Journals published in 2023. ?They demonstrate the range of critical international issues that our journals are covering. All our 20 radical Social Science journals are Diamond Open Access and free to read. You can see our whole collection and the archive on on?ScienceOpen?and?JSTOR.

The top slot goes to Samir Abed-Rabbo who is a visiting professor of American Government and Politics at Heilbronn University (HHN), Germany. In Germany's Never-Ending Guilt Trip, Arab Studies Quarterly, Volume 45 Issue 1, he examines and analyses the special relationship between Germany and the Zionist mechanisation to colonise Palestine, the establishment of Israel in 1948, and the arming of the state with modern weapon platforms that can carry and deliver nuclear weapons. This secret relationship is in clear violation of German law, made possible by creating a universal guilt feeling among Germans for the crime of the Holocaust, and associated with a deliberate lack of public debate and accountability.

Second place goes to José Ramón Sanabria Navarro, Yahilina Silveira Pérez, William Alejandro. In Socioeconomico Impact of Migration in Cuba, 2022, International Journal of Cuba Studies, Volume 15 issue 1, the authors explore where and why Cubans emigrate as well as its socioeconomic implications, based on an interpretive paradigm grounded in the conceptualisation of what emigrating means in theory, and the causes of this socio-economic phenomenon in Cuba.?

Third place goes to Camilla Power and her extraordinary article How to Breathe, Journal of Global Faultlines Volume 9 issue 2. Power suggests that to restore a sustainable rhythm to our planet, our lifeways and economy, we need to decolonise time. She explores the history of capitalism as robbery: ever tighter control of time yielding greater economic exploitation and inequality. Then she asks how we could reorganise and redistribute time. What can indigenous and egalitarian societies teach us today about the passage of time? What biological and cultural resources do we have for slowing down the rhythms of our economy and redistributing time?

You can see the full listing of the 2023 top 20 articles from across our social science collection here.