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Emmanuel Terray, showing the contradictions in the Western tradition between religious freedom and the rule of law, warns how the Republic's enforcement of secularism promotes violence.

Alain Brossat on how the reaction to the murder of Samuel Paty exposes the divisions and inequalities at the heart of the French Republicanism, and how the violence is doomed to repeat itself.

As Argentina's upper house prepares for its historic vote on abortion rights, Verónica Gago, our leading theorist of the Feminist International, discusses how the struggle around abortion has opened up the central question of 'political decision' for those typically excluded from politics. 

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How Leo Panitch touched the lives of students, scholars and activists.

Alain Badiou gets to grips with the current political moment, and proposes that we are on the cusp of a new epoch: a new mass communism.

An excerpt from Leo Panitch's last book, written with Colin Leys.

Aditya Bahl protests against the continued imprisonment of the Marxist poet, Varavara Rao, and examines how the current cycle of rightwing repression is part of a much longer political history, shaped by the changing relationship between the Indian state and capitalism. 

Looking at the pandemic in its wider political context.

A response to the debate on terrorism and war: the need to avoid escalating forms of repression in the face of attacks by using justice and the rule of law rather than violence.

Matt Kerr, a former postal worker and current union organiser, on the value of post and the parallels between his experiences and Long Live the Post Horn!