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On February 3, 2025, Michael Burawoy was tragically killed in a hit-and-run. Zachary Levenson remembers his teacher and reflects on his intellectual generosity and political commitment.

Sita Balani examines the regulation of white women’s sexuality in the British colonies.

"It is mostly through intimate relationships that we reproduce ourselves emotionally, and that we create our sense of authentic subjectivity. But these relationships are often in themselves a source of pain and frustration." - Alva Gotby

"The home is often not a space of refuge." — Alva Gotby

What would it mean to theorise love as a form of labour? How can we think of our emotional dependency on other people in political terms, rather than as expressions of individual and interior subjectivity?

"There comes a time when every old student must decide whether or not to renew their driver’s license" — Mike Davis

How do we maintain hope in the face of despair and collective political burnout?

Katherine Angel on the endless negotiations of power within sexual experiences.

What makes Marx a stranger to Marxist movements is not simply the difficulty of certain key works and passages, but a series of other obstacles.

"It is impossible to read the introductory, stylistically razor-sharp and rhetorically perfect first pages of the Communist Manifesto without recognizing the society that is ours" – Sven-Eric Liedman

Erik Olin Wright examines the complex tension between class interest and achieving class objectives.