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On 10 January 2024, Pope Francis received a private audience with a delegation of people who had been participating for several years in a dialogue between Marxists and Christians. Michael Löwy, who was in attendance, recounts the experience in detail.
In France, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has been accused of antisemitism for his opposition to Israel's relentless siege on Gaza. In this interview, Mélenchon explains why the Left must assert a universalist antiracism in the face of Europe's accelerating slide to the far right.
British universities are targeting and punishing their students for expressing support for Palestinians. In Testimonial 17 of our Palestine Uncensored series, a medical student describes being suspended from their university as retribution for their public solidarity with Palestine.
Søren Mau discusses what communism might look like, as well as the key themes in his book Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital.
Though E.P. Thompson is recognized as one of the 20th century's great historians, during much of his life, "the writing of history took a back seat to the actual making of history." For the centenary of Thompson's birth, Julian Harber reflects on the lesser-known Edward as teacher and political activist.
In the final instalment of our Own This! roundtable, Trebor Scholz responds to the previous contributions and lays out his vision for platform cooperativism going forward.
Judith Butler was planning to speak at a Palestine solidarity event in Paris in December until the city's mayor unilaterally cancelled it. Here, Butler describes the chain of events leading up to the cancellation and affirms the necessity of resisting political censorship around Palestine.