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In the latest issue: Göran Therborn on the global middle classes, Lola Seaton on eco-nationalism and more

Judith Butler speaks to Alex Doherty about her new book, The Force of Nonviolence.

While 2020 has assaulted an already beleaguered City University of New York with a range of new challenges, the university system is also transforming into a veritable laboratory for different liberation strategies. 

Leisure and work and ‘private life’ make up a dialectical system, a global structure. Through this global structure we can reconstruct a historically real picture of man and the human at a certain step in their development: at a certain stage of alienation and disalienation.

McKenzie Wark, author of Sensoria, discusses algorithmic injustice, racial capitalism and Afropessimism alongside the work of Jackie Wang.

On the publication of a new collection of writing, John Howe recalls his encounter with the father of AfroBeat at the Shrine, Lagos.

The crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic has revealed major flaws in the nature of the British state – and the left's thinking on state power as well. In this article, Christine Berry argues that what is required is a new, democratic conception of state power as a way out of the crisis.

An interview with Avery F. Gordon by Brenna Bhandar & Rafeef Ziadah, editors of Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought

2020 is the 50th anniversary of the founding of Verso Books. In that time we have published books that have become classics of the left. We also published Class War's A Decade of Disorder. Here, Colin Robinson, former editor at Verso, recounts the events leading up to its publication – and the subsequent fire-bombing of the Verso offices in retaliation.

'For all the lab work and vaccine hunts, it is ultimately society itself that pandemics put under the microscope.' 

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An interview with Gail Lewis by Brenna Bhandar & Rafeef Ziadah, editors of Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collectiver Action and Radical Thought, available from Verso