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Pyeongchang echoes Rio's legacy: political grandstanding, overspending, greenwashing, white-elephant stadiums, and the militarization of public space.

The claims now being made on universities and public institutions in France provides an opening onto different kinds of critical solidarity and strategy. 

Tithi Bhattacharya offers an introduction to the methods, insights, and strategic implications of Social Reproduction Theory. 

The story of how a chemical weapon banned from war zones was redesigned to target unarmed civilians.  

Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics by Jules Boykoff is 50% off for the duration of the Winter Olympics (until Sunday, February 25 at 11:59pm EST).

On the March 8th Verso staff will be joining women across the world on strike.

"We have an awful lot more to learn about the Russian Revolution."

Kathi Weeks draws on 1970s feminist critiques of romance to investigate the contemporary management discourses of love and happiness at work. 

In his book Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis gives us his version of the events that led to the Tsipras government’s shameful capitulation in July 2015. In the fifth part of a series of articles analyzing the book, Eric Toussaint looks at the earliest days of the Tsipras government. 

Joyce Salisbury examines attitudes toward chastity, sexuality, and gender held by a group of Early Christian women ascetics. 

"There is much in the relationship between states and ultra-right vigilantism that makes the dividing line ambiguous" – Liz Fekete

As the relationship between contemporary states and the far-right strengthens, we look to the crisis from a global perspective with this reading list.