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Edwy Plenel, author of For the Muslims, on the opportunity for an alliance of the main left-wing parties in the 2022 French legislative election.

Joanna Walsh picks 5 books that inspired Girl Online: A User Manual

What is left for the left after the reelection of Emmanuel Macron in France? According to Frédéric Lordon, the French election of 2022 will not have been totally in vain if it at least allows us to disengage ourselves from electoral belief. In relation to its purpose, which is to ‘bring politics to life’, election is a fraud.

In memory of Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022)

"When I received an early draft of the opening sections of the book, Ben warned me that some of it was a bit out there. He wasn't wrong."

What is the significance of Auguste Blanqui for contemporary politics? In what ways might his political theory inform or serve as a corrective to recent debates about collective political action and radical social change? Here, Philippe Le Goff argues that Blanqui can help us formulate some of our most basic assumptions and questions today.

Much has been made since Emmanuel Macron's victory over far right candidate Marine Le Pen on April 24th of the scale of his victory. But as Marlon Ettinger writes, with the two previously dominant parties on their last legs, the latest French election represents merely another breakdown in the country's conventional political scene, one that could provide openings for both the left and the right.

The last witness to Berlin’s artistic bohemia interviewed by Jean-Michel Palmier

All books are 40% off in celebration of May Day!

"It’s not fair, living this shitty life, the workers said in meetings, in groups at the gates. All the stuff, all the wealth that we make is ours. Enough. We can’t stand it any more, we can’t just be stuff too, goods to be sold. Vogliamo tutto — We want everything."

An excerpt from Kim Moody's introduction to his classic book An Injury to All, which exposes the roots of modern “business unionism” and the causes of its decline.

In a text full of anger but also hope, the anthropologist Alain Bertho focuses on the stakes of the presidential election between the two rounds.