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We need a way of assessing not just what is wrong with capitalism, but what is desirable about alternatives.

Eighty years ago, in August 1940, Leon Davidovitch Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico by Ramon Mercader, a fanatical agent of the Stalinist GPU. In this article acclaimed historian and thinker Michael Löwy looks at his writing on revolutionary art and assesses their contemporary relevance.

How to design an Adorno book? An interview with designer Neil Donnelly on his inspiration for the cover of The Authoritarian Personality.

How the Israel Defense Force Made a Nation, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast.

Susan Weissman responds to Steven Smith's letter to the LRB on Tariq Ali, Victor Serge and Trotsky.

Adorno's The Authoritarian Personality "represents one of the most sophisticated attempts to explore the origins of fascism not merely as a political phenomenon, but as the manifestation of dispositions that lie at the very core of the modern psyche."

On the anniversary of genocidal campaign against the Rohingya community in Myanmar, Carlos Sardiña Galache sets out the origins of the crisis.

Join us for an event series exploring abolition and mutual aid in the UK.

Radical thought, urgent theory, feminist rage: rethink your reading for the academic year ahead.

The compound crises of long-term environmental pollution, decades of economic disinvestment, and a pandemic proving especially deadly for working-class people forced to congregate indoors at home or on the job, make for a deadly intersection in a handful of New York City neighborhoods. The hot city is quite literally a killer.

Port disasters, such as the recent deadly explosion in Lebanon, are an inevitable consequence of capital's global circulation, argues Edna Bonhomme.  

Policing is many things and all of them are about mobility. Police arrest mobility through traffic stops and checkpoints, interrupt mobility with borders and curfews, monitor mobility by helicopter or camera, force mobility by firing tear gas or sending in police dogs.