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“Nothing that you make in the world exists in isolation from the social and political and ecological dimensions of it.’’

The following is a comment on a forum held earlier this year engaging with the works of the late Patrick Wolfe, leading theorist on settler colonialism and author of Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Racism.

How the police endanger us and why we need to find an alternative. The End of Policing is 40% off until October 20, 23.59 PST

During Black History Month we share a letter written by James Baldwin, one of the foremost novelists and public intellectuals of the 20^th century. In 1970 Baldwin wrote an open letter to the then imprisoned Communist Party activist Angela Davis expressing his solidarity, and reflecting on racism and Black radicalism in America. This letter, reproduced below, also features in If They Come in the Morning…, a collection of classic writings on race edited by Angela Davis.

For too long the field of criminology in general, and police studies in particular, has cut itself off from larger questions of justice.

Judith Butler addresses the charges of antisemitism leveled at supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, and the related anti-boycott acts currently before both the US House and Senate.

To mark the 50th anniversary of Che Guevara's death.

Jason Moore on the origins of the twenty-first century's "distinct, but mutually formative" crises of capitalism and ecology.

An excerpt from Marianne Fritz's The Weight of Things with an introduction from translator Adrian Nathan West.

Ronald Grigor Suny discusses the Russian Revolution and its historiography. 

Should we debate whether another writer deserved the “honour” of the Nobel Prize in Literature more than Kazuo Ishiguro? Consider the nature of this particular distinction.

An exploration of Bernal's contribution to the politicization of science and scientists, above all the development of the Social Relations of Science movement.