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Black feminist labour is stitched through the tapestry of Black radicalism, even as it falls out of the frame of representation.
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Palestine Was Not Empty
In this excerpt from Ten Myths About Israel, Ilan Pappe takes on the myth that Palestine was an empty land. -
A System of Sabotage
The new oil companies of the late 19th century found themselves competing across countries and continents, and had to look to ‘methods of sabotage’ to solve the problem. -
A Hitchcock Blonde in Paris | Bluebeard's Castle
Anna Biller captures the seductively luxurious glamour of a honeymoon in Paris in her gothic novel Bluebeard’s Castle.
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Who needs experts?
And what even is the role of the public intellectual in the post-truth age?
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Using the law as a weapon
What explains the absence of feminist interest in incarcerated women, and the investment in the carceral system? -
The Man Who Closed The Asylums
In 1961 an Italian mental asylum on the iron curtain got a new director. Within seven years he changed the face of contemporary psychiatry.
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The Art of the Pause
The ‘slow movement’ and its implications for contemporary art.
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The Death of the Greek Left: A Political Tragedy
Stefanos Kasselakis's victory in the SYRIZA leadership contest marks a traumatic break from the party's political traditions, raising the question: where goes the Greek left go from here?
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C.L.R. James: Brett St Louis & Arun Kundnani
Brett St Louis and Arun Kundnani join Eleanor Penny to discuss the life, work and legacy of radical scholar C.L.R. James. -
Cat and Mouse: The Copernican Inversion Outside Work
The history of monetary scams – from the coin clipping shown in the recent BBC drama The Gallow’s Pole, to the Spanish Anarchist and bricklayer who forged millions of travellers cheques in the 1960s and 1970s – shows how workers' resistance is still key to capitalist development. -
The grey market of Twitch streams
Twitch Bits are money-ish, and they are far more than the sum of their worth.