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On the 33rd anniversary of his assassination in a French-backed coup, we celebrate the life and career of the revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara.

The question of human needs is a central question in Marxist theory. Here, Max L. Feldman reads the desert island imaginary in order to examine what exactly a human need is, and whether those needs can point beyond capitalism.

The North Bronx Collective is a group of BIPOC and QBIPOC women artists, educators, community gardeners and long-time local organizers spearheading popular initiatives against policing, gentrification, and food apartheid. And while their work has had to adapt to the pandemic and anti-cop rebellions of 2020, a red thread leaps out from the various modes and forms of their organizing: a commitment to community and democratic control of land, institutions, and resources, against the rule of property, the power of the carceral state, and the ongoing legacy of colonialism.

"What was feminism, and how were we to recognize it, across all eras and all regions of the globe?" – Jessie Kindig, Verso Editor, looks back at the publication of The Verso Book of Feminism.

Gargi Bhattacharyya assesses the stumbling blocks for electoral paths to socialism in the aftermath of Corbynism.

For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century history of women’s movements in Asia and the Middle East. Kumari Jayawardena presents feminism as it originated in the Third World, erupting from the specific struggles of women fighting against colonial power, for education or the vote, for safety, and against poverty and inequality.

Kate Soper on the case for building a world beyond consumerism. 

As the crisis of capitalism unfolds, the need for alternatives is felt ever more intensely. The struggle between radical movements and the forces of reaction are merciless. Over the last twenty-five years, radical intellectuals across the world have produced important and innovative ideas. The endeavour to transform the world without falling into the catastrophic traps of the past has been a common element uniting these new approaches.

Theodore W. Allen draws lessons from Irish history, comparing British rule in Ireland with the “white” oppression of Native Americans and African Americans, in this excerpt from The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1, a groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America.

Rossana Rossanda, one of Il Manifesto’s founding editors, passed away on Sunday at the age of 96. Here, comrade Luciana Castellina writes about her extraordinary life and her influential position on the Italian left.

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Rossana Rossanda, one of Il Manifesto’s founding editors, passed away on Sunday at the age of 96. The following extract from her memoir, La Ragazza del Secolo Scorso, published by Verso as The Comrade from Milan, appeared in New Left Review in 2008, prefaced by a short introduction to her life and work.