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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. 

There is something both refreshing and salutary in rediscovering Ernst Bloch, the philosopher of utopia, at this most anti-utopian age. 

Lefebvre's monument to the unknown painter remains to be built. 

Virou Srilangarajah on the life and work of A. Sivanandan.

Emily Apter revisits the debate on cosmopolitanism and examines Étienne Balibar's conception of cosmopolitics. 

An extract from the forthcoming second issue of Chuǎng, a journal analysing the ongoing development of capitalism in China, its historical roots, and the revolts of those crushed beneath it.