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Recent years have seen the convergence of new work practices in the academy. From the smile or die ethos which has migrated from the service sector, to "passionate work" and the expectation that you should not only love your job but that you should take it wherever you go. In this essay, Angela McRobbie asks how we can resist these trends in the neoliberal university, and what the radical pedagogical practices of Stuart Hall and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies can teach us about living and working differently.

On Labour and anti-semitism

What would a renewal of social democracy in Germany mean, and at what price? In this article, Richard Seymour questions the platform and strategy of the new left coalition Aufstehen headed by Sahra Wagenknecht and Oskar Lafontaine.

With the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) entering into a "Grand Coaliton" with Merkel's CDU/CSU in the Bundestag, the rise of the far right AfD particularly in the former leftwing heartlands of Eastern Germany, and the launch of the Sahra Wagenknecht led new left-wing grouping Aufstehen which aims to gather those from the disillusioned left of the SPD and members of Die Linke, where next for German politics? In this article, originally published in FAZ,  renowned sociologist Wolfgang Streeck asks what the platform for a renewed social democratic left in Germany should be, and how this politics find its voice in contemporary political debates.

This article is published alongside a response from Richard Seymour.

Pioneering works of feminism from leading writers including Kathi Weeks, Michele Wallace, and Christine Delphy.

"Our reading in 1968 and thereabouts, done in the context of mass movements of social protest, helped to transform us into revolutionaries."

Norman G Finkelstein on the accusations of anti-semitism against Corbyn's Labour Party.

Geoengineering schemes — still largely hypothetical — not only fail to address the underlying causes of climate change; they carry their own profound political, economic, and ecological risks. 

Washington's primary interest in Nicaragua is not getting rid of Ortega but in preserving the interests of transnational capital in the country and the hegemony of capital over any post-Ortega political project.

While the revival of reformist social democracy is cause for optimism, it cannot win a new world without mass pressure from below.     

Aníbal Quijano, the renowned Peruvian scholar and one of the founders of Decolonial Studies, died last month at the age of 87. In this text, an introduction to José Carlos Mariátegui’s essential writings on socialist politics and culture, published in 1991 by Fondo de Cultura, Quijano underscores the powerful influence that Mariátegui held over the theoretical development of Latin American critical thought

"We have to come back to the straightforward explanation that this is a society which is structured by racial oppression and has been for its entire history."