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Kevin Ochieng Okoth discusses the key ideas in his new book Red Africa: Reclaiming Black Politics.

Our appetite for literary diaries has never been greater, with TikTok and Twitter feeds filled with snippets of writing from Virginia and extracts from Sylvia Plath’s food diary. But what can the contemporary desire for the diaries of others tell us about our individualistic society?

An open letter from Berlin's cultural workers calling on Germany’s cultural institutions and workers to oppose historical injustice and ongoing ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

Western critics of Israel's apartheid policies and far-right government are frequently accused of antisemitism, but leftist and left-liberal Israelis have been decrying the country's descent into fascism for years. In this article, Alberto Toscano argues that fascism is embedded in the logic of Israel's colonial project.

In response to the conflict in Gaza, the international media has systematically downplayed the severity of the events and aided in Israeli obfuscation and falsehoods. Richard Seymour surveys the media's "lunatic equanimity in the face of barbarism".