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10 stand-out paperbacks from 2019, from Municipal Dreams to New Dark Age!

In office since 2006, Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, has been overthrown in a coup d’état. Debate on how this happened and what it all means has been proliferating on the international left. Ashley Smith talked with Jeffery R. Webber and Forrest Hylton, two long-time observers of Bolivia, to get a better sense of the issues at stake.

Throughout the 2019 general election campaign Politics Theory Other podcast will be releasing regular election special episodes covering topics including: Labour's grassroots campaigning model, the digital war, the leadership styles of Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, Scotland and what the general election means for Scottish independence, and much besides.

How we conceive of the state has profound effects on how we understand political strategy. In this essay, written in response to Michael A. McCarthy's recent intervention, Zachary Levenson and Teresa Kalisz argue that only by seeing the state as truly relational can we avoid the pitfall of placing undue emphasis on organising within the state, rather than the vital work of base building.

British politics, since the 2017 general election, has been dominated by Brexit. What is at stake in the debate, and what are the possible outcomes after December 12th?

Evo Morales didn’t resign; he was overthrown by a coup d’état.

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In these videos Maya Goodfellow explores Britain's long history of anti-immigration politics, and the reality of climate breakdown on migration. She is the author of Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats.

The next Labour government will face the immediate challenge of undoing the damage of austerity. But the economic difficulties we now face run much deeper.

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The Lebanese novelist and essayist Dominique Eddé expresses her amazement at a movement that ‘gives visibility and voice to a people in whom no one believed any more’: a Lebanese people united in solidarity

From Chile to Ecuador, a wave of revolts against neoliberal austerity has swept through Latin America. Elections have brought the Peronists back to office in Argentina, and political crisis to Bolivia under Evo Morales. Brazil remains under the shadow of Jair Bolsonaro, but how enduring is his far-right politics, and what lessons does it signal for the rise of the right elsewhere in the region? Ashley Smith talked with Jeffrey R. Webber about the roots, politics, and trajectory of these struggles.