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In this essay, Nathan Jurgenson defends the selfie from its critics. Neither basic, nor narcissistic, the selfie is a mirror of identity; a performance that reveals far more than it conceals. 

The scale of the impending climate crisis is now apparent to more or less everyone. Yet, whilst it's been the left that has taken the lead in reponding to climate change for several generations, it is increasingly the far-right who are developing political responses to catastrophe. This has been reflected in the growing eco-fascist movement, a movement who were parachuted to global prominence on the 15th March this year when one of their number murdered fifty people in two Christchurch mosques. In this article, Eleanor Penny analyses eco-fascism and asks what it will take the left to deal with the scale of the climate crisis.

Natasha Lennard's Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life asks what it takes to fight fascism.

The Tories have a millennial problem. That's the conclusion of a series of interventions in the past few months from a range of Conservatives, not least Liz Truss free-market conservatism to  “Uber-riding, Airbnb-ing, Deliveroo-eating freedom fighters". But what's behind this appeal to the lifestyle freedom of the "Boohoo generation"? In this article, Orlando Lazar argues that debating the left on the terrain of freedom is dangerous territory for the Tories, and one which elides the dynamics of modern capitalism.

In response to the increasing iniquities of contemporary capitalism, Michel Aglietta argues that the only way out is through increasing political democracy, and a radical democratisation of the economy. 

Enzo Traverso interviewed by Vincent Martign about the current state of the international left and its future prospects.

The first annual Christopher Hill Memorial Lecture was given on November 3rd 2018 in Newark and 27th March 2019 in London by Professor Justin Champion, and titled "Heaven Taken by Storm: Christopher Hill, Andrew Marvell and the Dissenting Tradition". In this, the text of the lecture, Champion defends Christopher Hill's Marxist method against its revisionist detractors and seeks to extend Hill's reading of Andew Marvell, particularly his reflections on Marvell's topical satires in verse and prose of the Restoration.

Bhaskar Sunkara explores socialism’s history and presents a realistic vision for its future.

An essay from Communal Luxury by Kristin Ross

The following essay is by Gail Lewis and is taken from "Black Women's Employment and the British Economy" from Inside Babylon.

In State of Insecurity, Isabell Lorey explores the possibilities for organization and resistance under the contemporary status quo, and anticipates the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious. In this extract she looks at care crisis and care strike.

What is the capitalist democratic state and how should it be confronted? The left has typically seen the state either as an instrument of class rule that needs to be "smashed" or, as with social democracy, as a neutral medium which can be wielded by functionaries with the correct ideas. In this, a series of seven theses on the nature and function of the capitalist state, Michael A. McCarthy argues that both are wrong and that we need a reinvigoration of the late work of Nicos Poulantzas for a full, democratic understanding of the state.