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  • Of what value are psychoanalytic concepts and methods for social justice?

    Of what value are psychoanalytic concepts and methods for social justice?

    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. 

  • Neoliberal Subject(s)

    Neoliberal Subject(s)

    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.

  • Verso Radical Diary 2019!

    Verso Radical Diary 2019!

    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.

  • The Kites of Jabalia

    The Kites of Jabalia

    Shlomo Sand on the image and reality of the conflicts between Israel and Palestine.

  • Return to the Commons

    Return to the Commons

    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. 

  • Race and Class Reductionism Today

    Race and Class Reductionism Today

    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.

  • Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras arrives at the Council of the European Union for the first day of the European Council leaders' summit on March 22, 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. Jack Taylor / Getty

    Syriza’s Repressive Turn

    Alexis Tsipras’s government promised to end austerity. Now it’s defending the banks against people evicted from their homes — and persecuting those who protest.

  • A playlist from Jenny Hval

    A playlist from Jenny Hval

    A playlist from artist, musician and author Jenny Hval, filled with the songs she was listening to as she wrote her debut novel, Paradise Rot.