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What the state and its representatives cannot bear is the fact that for ten years the ZAD has experimented forms of life which prefigure a possible future society in the here and now.

May 1968 stands at the precipice into which the historical labor movement will descend. 

In a new episode of Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast, Mehrsa Baradaran looks at the history of the racial wealth gap and the ways that Black banks have often acted to distract from more fundamental solutions. 

The first issue of Barricade sees light this month. 

Why France’s biggest police operation since May 68 is prepared to kill for Macron’s neoliberal nightmare.

Nisha Kapoor, author of Deport, Deprive, Extradite, locates the recent Windrush scandal in the long history of empire. Kapoor thinks through the role of citizenship as a tool of empire, showing how imperialism continues to pervade our everyday life. How do we think and do anti-racism? Connections must be made between the Windrush scandal, the War on Terror and deportation targets: all projects of state violence are an attack on our civil liberties.

Philosopher Lewis R. Gordon discusses the relevance of Frantz Fanon's thought to activists and intellectuals today, and the misconceptions that have shadowed his best known work. 

South African film Inxeba (The Wound) reveals the developmental power male spaces hold over those coerced into passing through them.

In addition to the newfound sympathy for the Windrush generation, we should remember that ‘illegal immigrants’ are our kin, especially if we are to challenge the racism at the heart of the ‘hostile environment’.

"I think the days of pitting feminism against socialism or Marxism are over," says Nancy Fraser in a new short video.

In celebration of the Announcement that Forensic Architecture have been nominated for the 2018 Turner Prize we bring you an excerpt from The Least Of All Possible Evils by Eyal Weisman, the director and one of the founders of Forensic Architecture.

When, if ever, is it justified for the state to surveil, infiltrate and repress political movements? Connor Woodman replies to Alex Vitale's The End of Policing, and argues for an abolitionist perspective on political policing