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Israel Can’t Imprison Two Million Gazans Without Paying a Cruel Price
Under Israeli blockade since 2007, Gaza is the world's largest open air prison. While major Western media outlets are painting Israel as the victim of a surprise attack, Israeli journalist Gideon Levy argues that Israel's ruthless imprisonment of 2 million Palestinians is to blame for the present violence. -
Black British Feminist Resistance
Black feminist labour is stitched through the tapestry of Black radicalism, even as it falls out of the frame of representation. -
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.