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Natasha Lennard, author of Being Numerous, selects five books that shaped her thinking on fascism permeating life under capitalism.

"It was as if decades of theorizing fascism—as an ideology, or a tendency, a practice, something that never quite disappeared —had been erased overnight and all that mattered in the media frenzy was delineating Trump’s similarities and differences to Hitler or Mussolini."

Frances Ryan on her new book, Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast

The past year has seen French society rocked by the Gilets Jaunes protests. Yet, while these protests have been ongoing, the government passed new Asylum and Immigration Law and police violence against migrants has reached new heights of brutality. This translation of a statement by the Gilets Noirs, a movement spearheaded by undocumented migrants, outlines their demands.

In American Breakdown, David Bromwich connects the hollowing out of American democracy and the rise of Trump to decades of imperialism, neoliberal policies, and a strengthening of executive power.

Greenhouse effect, global warming, climate change, climate disruption. Think of the succession of words we’ve used to describe the gradual onset of catastrophe and you see at once how inadequate words can be.

In these videos, Priyamvada Gopal uncovers a complicated history of colonial resistance and attitudes to empire in Britain. She is the author of Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent

Black radicals in London learnt vital lessons from rebellions in the colonies, and interpreted them to a metropolitan audience

An interview with Tony Wood on the current state of Russia-US relations, and the West's misguided obsession with Putin.

Two interviews with Eric Blanc on the importance of rank and file organizing in the wave of teachers strikes.

An indispensable window into the changing shape of the American working class and American politics.

Leo Panitch on Ralph Miliband's theory of the state, his debates with Nicos Poulantzas, and the relevance of his work to the Corbyn project, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast.