In State of Insecurity, Isabell Lorey explores the possibilities for organization and resistance under the contemporary status quo, and anticipates the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious. In this extract she looks at care crisis and care strike.
What is the capitalist democratic state and how should it be confronted? The left has typically seen the state either as an instrument of class rule that needs to be "smashed" or, as with social democracy, as a neutral medium which can be wielded by functionaries with the correct ideas. In this, a series of seven theses on the nature and function of the capitalist state, Michael A. McCarthy argues that both are wrong and that we need a reinvigoration of the late work of Nicos Poulantzas for a full, democratic understanding of the state.
Open letter signed by theorists, critics, and scholars calling for the removal of Warren B. Kanders – CEO of a company responsible for the manufacturing and marketing of weapons such as the tear gas used against migrant families at the U.S./Mexico border, Water Protectors at Standing Rock, protestors in Ferguson, Oakland, Palestine, Puerto Rico, Egypt – from the board of the Whitney Museum.
Now updated with the signatures of more than 100 artists, including a number of artists participating in the upcoming 2019 Whitney Biennial.
Our Autumn 2019 Catalogue, jam packed with hot takes, current analysis and our new Verso Fiction Imprint!
Since Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labour Party, the language of treason has returned to British political discourse - notably so with the recent video footage of soldiers in Afghanistan firing at a picture of Corbyn and Nigel Farage's claims that he would ‘pick up a rifle’ if Brexit was not delivered. In this article, Eleanor Penny analyses what it at stake in this new language of treason and what that means for British politics and society.
Kevin Ochieng Okoth celebrates the work and legacy of radical Guyanese historian and revolutionary Walter Rodney.
Stone Men explores how Palestinian labour built the land of Israel, and how to use this history in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine.
Tariq Ali on the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange earlier today.
Four landmark texts of political theory by David Harvey are now 50% off!
George Souvlis interviews Enzo Traverso on the emergence of far-right movements across the European continent, drawing on Traverso's extensive body of work since the 1990s.
On the latest Suite (212) on Resonance FM, Juliet Jacques talks to Brian Eno, about new music, new technology, neoliberalism, and the responsibilities of artists in 2019.
March saw attacks on Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar for expressing solidarity with the people of Palestine and for criticising the outsized U.S. political preoccupation with the Israeli state. In this article, Sophia Azeb reads the targeting of Omar through the work of the late poet and activist June Jordan, and argues that only by bearing witness can we hold the state to account.