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.
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 artist, musician and author Jenny Hval, filled with the songs she was listening to as she wrote her debut novel, Paradise Rot.
In response to high-profile accusations of sexual assault and the gathering storm around the prevelance of spy cam footage in the Korean porn industry, the past year has seen a snowballing women's movement in the traditionally conservative Korean society. In this article, So Yun Alysha Park looks at the tactics of the movement and its chances for enacting lasting change.
Penelope J. Corfield reflects on the personal and political life of her late uncle, the eminent Marxist historian Christopher Hill. Throughout his life, Hill was deeply committed to the principle of equality and the vision of a just society without poverty and exploitation - egalitarian ideals that are as important today as they were in the 1640s.