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Everywhere we turn, technology promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? 

In these videos James Bridle discusses how, despite the apparent accessibility of digital information, we’re living in a new Dark Age.

Sophie Oudin-Bensaïd died last week at the age of 71. In this article, Paul Alliès remembers Sophie as an ardent internationalist who tirelessly fought for her convictions up to the very end. 

Racial inequality is not only systematic; it is also actively encouraged or passively tolerated by the state. Through strike action and demonstrations, the anti-racist 'Rosa Parks' collective seeks to challenge racial inequality in the name of the equality of all those affected by precariousness and abuses of the state. For this reason, argues Étienne Balibar, it is crucial to support the collective in the two days of action it is organising this Friday and Saturday. 

Socialism won't just improve the material conditions of society. It will also better the souls and creative impulses of everyone in it. 

Jules Gleeson explains the history of pathologisation of intersex people with the term 'Disorders of Sex Development'.

All thinkers have their father-thinkers; none more so than Daniel Bensaïd. The figures of Charles Péguy, Walter Benjamin and Louis Auguste Blanqui recur throughout his work. In this article, Émile Carmes studies Bensaïd's deep engagement over the years with the work of Blanqui.

Joshua Clover discusses rebellion and incarceration in relation to the recurrent crisis of state and capital with Rustbelt Abolition Radio.

Eleanor Marx is one of the most tragically overlooked radical figures in history. Sally Alexander explores her outstanding contribution to radical history.

In this interviewed with the renowned philosopher Alain Badiou around the publication of his latest book Petrograd, Shanghaï (La Fabrique, 2018), he discusses the revolutionary legacy of the twentieth century and the future of Marxist theory.

In an era in which public trust in political institutions is faltering, could the legacy of Hannah Arendt offer a new departure for democracy? Hettie O'Brien analyses Arendt's model of council democracy, and how Barcelona en Comú are transforming the way democracy works.

Demands centering on the need for a "Green New Deal", focused on the creation of a public works “green jobs” infrastructure policy, have helped energise the American left in recent weeks. In this article Matt Huber offers four vital lessons from the original New Deal that contemporary activists and policymakers must learn.