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Writing in 2003, Paul Foot contended that successive Labour governments have abandoned any aspiration to economic democracy. Will a Keir Starmer government be any different in 2024?

Oliver Eagleton on Labour leader Keir Starmer’s past life as Director of Public Prosecutions, and what it reveals about the kind of politician he is.

How has technology and the attention economy impacted contemporary art?

Kirk Boyle investigates Fredric Jameson's attempt to confront the challenges posed by the singularity of modernity in the latest instalment of our Jameson at 90 series.

Olivier Neveux revisits Fredric Jameson's Brecht and Method for our Jameson at 90 series.

Christian P. Haines reflects on Fredric Jameson's The Seeds of Time and the painfulness of utopia for our Jameson at 90 series.

Eric Hazan passed away on 6 June 2024. Tariq Ali reflects here on his lifetime of political commitment and intellectual creativity.

Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire by Adam Greenfield is one of our Verso Book Club July reads.

Happy Apocalypse: A History of Technological Risk by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz is one of our Verso Book Club July reads.

The repression of pro-Palestine speech since October 7 has sparked new demands from the Left that free speech be protected – including bigoted speech on the Right. In this essay, Sneha Krishnan argues that there can be no equivalence drawn between racist and anti-racist speech.

Marina Garcés lays out the need for critical dissent as a new beginning for the humanities in apocalyptic times.