Crises are always moments of decisions. They are moments when we must set out what our priorities are, and asks us how we can achieve them. Peter Hallward argues that the present one caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, could provide the immediate conditions for a new way of living. The clock is ticking, and the stakes are clear. What are we going to do?
Could COVID-19 provide the global wake-up call the world needs?
The introduction to Chantal Mouffe's The Return of the Political, a critique of liberal democracy's inability to understand the problems of ethnic, religious and nationalist conflicts.
5 of our classic Radical Thinkers: reissued for our 50th year.
Paige Murphy and Tayler Hackett discuss the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown on the lives of sex workers in the UK
The State is a 'machine' of repression, which enables the ruling classes to ensure their domination over the working class, thus enabling the former to subject the latter to the process of surplus-value extortion (i.e. to capitalist exploitation).
To combat the subordination of women requires an approach that combines a politics of redistribution with a politics of recognition.
With the COVID-19 pandemic increasing in severity by the day, governments across the world have invoked viral metaphors to effect emergency legislation, in the process clamping down on civil liberties. In such a circumstance, what can the work of those who have studied liberal regimes' propensity to make the state of exception the rule, such as Giorgio Agamben and Carl Schmitt, offer to us – if anything at all?
In these videos, Juno Mac and Molly Smith discuss the issues around the Nordic Model approach to prostitution law and how the criminalisation of sex work, the drug market and trafficking harms sex workers. They are the authors of Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
Owen Hatherley reflects on the generational divides that have emerged over the course of the last two UK general elections by charting the musical evolution of The Smiths. Comparing Morrissey’s political trajectory to those of many voters throughout the North of England, Hatherley investigates the roots of the North’s departure from anti-Thatcherite collectivism to nationalist reaction.
Jean Baudrillard on the sociology of interior design: an extract from the new Radical Thinkers edition of The System of Objects
The ECHO mobile library currently travels around 250km to 11 locations in and around Athens each week, offering access to free reading material for the 115,000 refugees currently in Greece. But, they need your help to purchase a new van so they can continue this vital work.
Here, the ECHO librarians discuss their work in light of the radical history of libraries.