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To commemorate the passing of Ursula Le Guin below is an inspiring essay taken from Verso's edition of Utopia, reminding us of the power and potential of imagination.

China Miéville's tribute to Ursula Le Guin published on his blog

The zadists should be credited not only for resisting, but for experimenting with new forms of life.

The father of a member of the Verso community is on hunger strike to protest his imprisonment after being granted a stay on his deportation order.

Rather than be discarded, the term "neoliberalism" needs to be defined with greater precision. 

77 against the present. An interview with Paolo Virno, forty years after the movement of 1977 in Italy. 

Françoise Vergès responds to the "appeal of the 100" published in Le Monde.

The French government's abandonment of the airport project could leave a bitter taste at the Zad if it leads to the expulsion of those who have made the zone their home as well as their battle.

Achin Vanaik surveys a large body of theories of the nation and nationalism, and considers them in the context of contemporary India. 

The success of the American far right in shifting the mainstream is built on the repressed strategies of one forgotten wing of 1968: a particular reading of Lenin’s theory of revolution.

Like US violence in Asia, the symbolic infantilization of Asians has a long history.

Kristin Ross describes the history behind two territorial struggles in Europe and examines their political consequences.