Today marks the 31st anniversary of the assassination of Thomas Sankara, leader of the Burkinabè August Revolution which overthrew country’s corrupt military leadership in 1983. In this essay, Amber Murrey reflects on Sankara's legacy, and the ways in which that legacy is remembered via art and music in West Africa.
How do we think through the relation between race and class in capitalism? Responding to the recent intervention of Adolph Reed, Joshua Clover and Nikhil Pal Singh argue that, following Stuart Hall, race is the modality in which class is lived and that only by capturing the fundamental social experience of the unity of race and class can we avoid the pitfalls of separating them analytically and falling into "bothandism".
Psychoanalysis has been criticised for being bourgeois, narcissistic, and too focused on the individual at the expense of socio-economic circumstances. With an increasing popular interest in issues of social justice, has the discipline lost its relevance? In the third part of her series of articles on Freud, Linda Roland Danil makes a case for the continued importance of psychoanalytic treatment, and shows that these individual acts of resistance can have repercussions in society at large.
The tendency to see art and science as two distinct and antithetical spheres is the dominant way of viewing the two in contemporary society. Yet, as Jessie Florence Jones argues, it is only through creative attempts to bridge this divide, like recent exhibitions at FACT in Liverpool, can we nurture the revolutionary artists, and scientists, of the future.
The millions whose photographs are taken are not referred to in the histories and theories of photography. From an early stage, it was assumed that the people photographed provided the resources and the cheap or free labor for the large-scale photographic enterprise. In this fourth part of the Unlearning Decisive Moments of Photography series, Ariella Azoulay looks at photographers as cultural agents of imperialism.
In an interview with Elizabeth Adetiba, founder of the Me Too movement Tarana Burke emphasizes the crucial nature of centering marginalized voices and attacking institutional forces in the conversation around sexual violence.
A feminism fit for the twenty-first century: presented in this beautifully illustrated edition.
How should we think about race in relation to class formation on the left? In this article, Adolph Reed responds to the recent interventions of David I. Backer and Nikhil Pal Singh.
Our radical diary is back for 2019! Packed full of dates from across radical history, this week-to-view diary is the perfect planner for the year ahead.
Shlomo Sand on the image and reality of the conflicts between Israel and Palestine.
Since first occupying Notre-Dame-des-Landes, activists have contructed a world that imagines a more sustainable and communal way of life. In this short film, Ryan Powell and Pierre-Elliot Buet reflect on the promises of autonomous spaces and the challenges that arise in attempts to formalise these meachnisms of collective living.
What is the relation between race and class? and what do people mean when they say "class reductionism"? Questions of organising strategies relating to race and class have dominated leftist discourse in recent years. In this article, David I. Backer argues that we have to shift the focus of the debate about race and class reductionism to the the role of the relations of production.