Last month saw the 10th anniversary of the British student movement, and its symbolic starting point at Millbank Tower. But, in the midst of a new crisis, and with student unrest resurfacing, what can the ultimate failure of the movement teach us today?
A leader of Latin America’s powerful new women’s movement rethinks the meaning of feminist politics.
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“The shabby record of private investment-led political economy would not have surprised Keynes.” Tim Barker in Part III on the Verso Roundtable on Automation and the Future of Work.
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Brett Christophers, author of Rentier Capitalism, on the extraordinary dominance of monopolistic rent-seeking in the UK economy, in the latest episode of the Politics Theory Other podcast.
As carelessness takes hold in so many domains of life, and as community ties are profoundly weakened, the family is often encouraged to step in as society’s preferred infrastructure of care.
In Automation and the Future of Work, Aaron Benanav uncovers the structural economic trends that will shape our working lives far into the future. What social movements, he asks, are required to propel us into post-scarcity, if technological innovation alone can’t deliver it?
In the aftermath of the assassination of Samuel Paty, Jacques Ranciere demands that we rethink the relationship between the state, secularism and the freedom of expression.
This open letter, signed among others by Virginie Despentes, Adèle Haenel, Annie Ernaux, Jean-François Bayart and Alexis Jenni, deplores the fact that the link between Western military interventions and terrorist attacks is never questioned.
Jean-François Bayart, professor of political sociology, argues that the denunciation of ‘Islamo-leftism’ rests on a misunderstanding of history and reveals the consolidation of a ‘republican McCarthyism’ at the heart of the state and the media.
Where did the future go? Anton Jäger and Daniel Zamora on the short-sightedness of calls for a universal basic income. Part II of the Verso Roundtable on Automation and the Future of Work.