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Patrick Cockburn examines the threads between the pandemic and the media's coverage of age of endless war.

The bestselling books of 2020, including Vivian Gornick, Adorno, Angela Davis, Mike Davis, and Judith Butler.

In an interview Alain Badiou considers the possibilities of a politics outside the state and the problem of power

New York City is steadily sinking into the sea. . .Is there not a plan for that? 

It's now a year since  the Indian government rescinded the autonomy of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, effectively cutting off the beleaguered area from the outside world. In this, Shoaib Shafi speaks to Kashmiris about their experience of a year in lockdown.

"Despite India’s successful overthrow of British rule, it has created a colonial occupation of its own in Jammu and Kashmir. And recently, it has been taking its cues straight from Israel’s playbook."

Recent years have seen a boom in the genetic testing industry. Now, for relatively little money you can have your DNA analysed to see where your ancestors came from. But what does this industry say about how we view race and genetics, and is this merely a return of discredited and politically reactionary race science?

Daniel Guérin (1904-1988), was a French libertarian-communist perhaps best known for his controversial 1960s attempt to synthesize Marxism and anarchism. Here, translated into English for the first time, is the text of his speech about anti-racist struggle in both the US and France.

Feminist reading featuring Nancy Fraser, Nina Lakhani, Andrea Long Chu, Juno Mac and Molly Smith, Leta Hong Fincher, Sophie Lewis and Elizabeth Martínez.

The convergence of capitalism and print technology on the fatal diversity of human language created the possibility of a new form of imagined community, which in its basic morphology set the stage for the modern nation. 

On the 60th anniversary of Jean-Paul Sartre's key text on Marxism, Robert Boncardo shows us why it is still relevant, and urgently needed, today.

The development of distinctive property forms in English agriculture entailed new forms of class struggle. If we want to sum up the ways in which class struggle between landlords and peasants 'liberated' capitalism, it might be closer to the truth to say that capitalism was advanced by the assertion of the landlords' powers against the peasants' claims to customary rights.