Recent months have seen French politics rocked by two political events: the gilets jaunes protests and the Emmanuel Macron's public statement calling anti-Zionism a form of anti-semitism. In this, an open letter to philosopher Alain Finkielkraut following the attack on him recently in Paris during one of the protests, Dominique Eddé powerfully writes of the pains of the Palestinian people and struggle for a better world.
In this edited excerpt from Dreams of Leaving and Remaining, James Meek presents a topsy-turvy United Kingdom, where Robin Hood now steals from the poor to give to the rich – and gets away with it.
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Jules Joanne Gleeson and Nathaniel Dickson present eight theses on the future of trans politics.
Escalating tensions between the world's two great powers signal an important shift in global politics. In this, the introduction from the latest issue of New Left Review, Susan Watkins discusses the nature of US power and its rivalry with China.
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In response to staff at the University of New Mexico unionising, the university have brought in lawyers from the notorious union-busting law firm Jackson Lewis. In this article, David Correia, associate professor at the university, discussing the current state of higher education in the US and the long history of anti-union activities.
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of changes to his global empire - could we be entering into a new stage of development for the internet behemoth? In this article, Lewis Bassett looks at the development of Facebook, and argues for greater democratic control over the use of data.
Debates continue to rage across the political spectrum on the reality, or not, of white privilege. In this article, David Roediger argues that it is only by admitting both the reality of white advantage whilst also understanding the immense poverty and desperation of many poor white Americans, can we win in the struggle for a more humane society.
For the third consecutive year the new transnational feminist wave has called for a day of global mobilization on 8 March. In the face of a global crisis of historic dimensions, women and LGBTQ+ people are rising to the challenge and staging a global response. After the upcoming 8 March, the time has come for taking our movement a step further and calling for transnational meetings and assemblies of the movements: for becoming the emergency brake capable of stopping the capitalist train running at full speed, and hurtling all humanity and the planet we live in, toward barbarism.
On International Women’s Day we strike against the sexist, racist and criminal laws that jeopardise the lives of sex workers. Support the English Collective of Prostitutes by reading the following and signing the petition to decriminalise prostitution.
An anticapitalist feminism has become thinkable today, in part because the credibility of political elites is collapsing worldwide. This manifesto shows us how we can build a radical and transformative feminism.