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The sea has long been a defining feature, indeed an inevitability in Cuban art, literature, and life. Now it turns ominous.

The arrest and imprisonment of Tommy Robinson turned him into a cause célèbre for the rejuvenated global far-right. Following his release on bail, Eleanor Penny discusses the reaction to his arrest, free speech, and the death cult of the far-right.

Verso presents a reading list to engage with issues concerning the rise of the far-right, and the means of defending against it. 

The revelation that Emmanuel Macron’s bodyguard disguised himself as a riot cop in order to beat up protestors exposes larger problems with the presidency and policing in France. 

If the law is not passed, we will not leave the streets, and they will not be able to leave the congress building, because in the street legal abortion is already the law.

Linda Roland Danil makes the argument for reading Freud as a revolutionary figure, and asks what value Freud's work holds in the age of widening inequality.

The results of the Pakistani election offer some cause for hope, but no leader will be able to fundamentally reshape the country as long as the economy is choked by structural limitations and the military is able to exploit the War on Terror.

In this interview extract Giuliana Bruno thinks beyond conventional cartography to present a narrative guide to the imagination, from medieval emotional mapping to Situationist psychogeography.

How did a young American woman, born to a secular, working-class New York Jewish family and raised during the Depression, end up in Algiers during a heady period of revolutionary fervor?

Peter Hallward presents the case against Labour adopting the full IHRA definition of antisemitism.

Richard Seymour discusses the ongoing anti-semitism controversy in the Labour Party, the scale and nature of modern anti-semitism, the Labour Party's new code of conduct on anti-semitism, and the media campaign against the Corbynite left with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast.

Opinion columns were designed by God to have the same lifespan as a croissant.