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The first installment of a new text by Stathis Kouvelakis on the development, events and legacy of the Paris Commune, published in three parts across the week. 

Johanna Fernández, author of The Young Lords: A Radical History and a leading member of the movement to bring Mumia Abu-Jamal and other political prisoners home, reports on Mumia's COVID-19 diagnosis. 

Henri Lefebvre's account of the ideology of the Paris Commune, newly translated into English 

In this new edition of a classic, The Intellectual and His People, Jacques Rancière analyzes a question key to struggle: How does the intellectual relate to the masses they theorize about and, ultimately, for?

Jacques Rancière explains the temporality of the promise and how it shapes our political reality.

Historian Alexander Zevin looks through the pages of the Economist and finds a record of democracy's challenge to liberalism.

That diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives presuppose equity is what allows them to assimilate with ease into administrative austerity and the degradation of work. We must raise our expectations about what needs to change about higher education to make it accessible to all.

Ashley Roach-McFarlane recovers a portrait of a forgotten radical, and founder of the Notting Hill Carnival

Connections between patriarchy, policing, and the failures of representational politics were brought into sharp focus last weekend by police violence at the vigil for Sarah Everard.

Published to mark the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, Owen Holland discusses socialist poetics in the time of the Commune.

Gustave Lefrançais has been unfairly overlooked in accounts of significant actors in the Paris Commune, argues Daniel Bensaïd.

Lizzie O'Shea reflects on the revolutionary vision of the Communards, 150 years after the establishment of the Paris Commune.