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Abolition Is Now: Leah Cowan & Lola Olufemi
Leah Cowan and Lola Olufemi join The Verso Podcast to discuss feminist futures, abolitionism, and the roots of social violence. -
What is Cultural Criticism? Verso Reading
Featuring works from Francis Mulhern, Terry Eagleton, Michele Wallace, and more. -
“Y’all better quiet down.” Sylvia Rivera & the fractures of gay solidarity.
"While the Stonewall rebellion had increasingly been commemorated through the new gender-normative style of the moment, the most criminalized in the community who couldn’t live up to that norm were left behind or unwelcome." -
The Labour Party and Economic Democracy
Writing in 2003, Paul Foot contended that successive Labour governments have abandoned any aspiration to economic democracy. Will a Keir Starmer government be any different in 2024? -
Abandoned Legacy: The Left of Iran and Palestinians
Omid Montazary charts the entwined histories of resistance and collaboration between the Iranian marxist and muslim groups and Palestinian liberation since the Nakba, and asks why this shared legacy has been abandoned today.
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Keir Starmer: The Lawyer
Oliver Eagleton on Labour leader Keir Starmer’s past life as Director of Public Prosecutions, and what it reveals about the kind of politician he is. -
Art, Technology and the Attention Economy
How has technology and the attention economy impacted contemporary art? -
Losing Historicity
Kirk Boyle investigates Fredric Jameson's attempt to confront the challenges posed by the singularity of modernity in the latest instalment of our Jameson at 90 series. -
On Brecht and Method
Olivier Neveux revisits Fredric Jameson's Brecht and Method for our Jameson at 90 series. -
Utopia Hurts
Christian P. Haines reflects on Fredric Jameson's The Seeds of Time and the painfulness of utopia for our Jameson at 90 series. -
Eric Hazan: Friend, Comrade, Publisher
Eric Hazan passed away on 6 June 2024. Tariq Ali reflects here on his lifetime of political commitment and intellectual creativity.
