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In the height of graduation season, Gary Wilder reflects on the future and fallacies of US universities after the stundet-led pro-Palestine encampments. 

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Oliver Eagleton on Labour under Starmer. 

On what would have been Arno Mayer's 100th birthday, we're republishing Arno Mayer's Memory and History, an expanded speech defending his practice of history, featured as afterword to Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?

For Juneteenth: take 30% off books on slavery and race in America, including pre-orders of The Weight of Nightmares: Time and the Politics of Reparations for Slavery

A report from Woodbine, in New York City, on making the Lifehouse a reality.

40% off books on tech, including The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI and preorders on The Rulers, and 60% off all ebooks, until June 30th.

The final instalment of Robin Blackburn's 1963 essay 'Prologue to the Cuban Revolution'.

The afterword of the German translation of Belgian Surrealist Marcel Mariën's Theory of Immediate World Revolution, out in English for the first time this September. Preorder now for 30% off until Tuesday, June 16th.

In this essay, originally published by Race Today in 1983, C.L.R. James discusses Rodney's work in relation to the revolutionary seizure of power.

“If Walter Rodney’s assassins were under the impression that they could arrest the flow of his ideas by destroying his body, they could not have been more wrong.” — Angela Davis

Walter Rodney describes the ways colonialism reversed the continent's various paths of progress in order to solidify colonial exploitation.