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In the aftermath of two earthquakes in Mexico, the state and the political system have provided little but frustration for residents affected.

In the twenty-first century any world war is a civil war, and any civil war affects the world. Does this mean the end of the Age of Revolutions, or a whole new understanding of what revolution entails?

The only way to overcome the divisions within the working class is to confront them directly. The problem of white supremacy must be fought out openly within the working class.

To celebrate this weekend's The World Transformed festival we're offering 40% off all our essential Labour reading!

Galvano Della Volpe's consideration of literary realism after Engels' famous remarks on Balzac and Lenin's on Tolstoy.

"We need to radically reorganise politics from the bottom up": in these videos George Monbiot explains some of the ideas behind his new book, Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis.

As the experience of Strike Debt has shown, it has proven difficult to aggregate acts of defiance and default into a political force. Must Utopia go further, then: not just to erase the debts we have, but to break the economic and legal apparatuses that create debt, in order to ensure that nobody will need to go into debt ever again?

In a new video, David Harvey discusses how to read Capital today.

To confront this changing landscape of work, we need today to draw on Marxist feminist analyses of gendered forms of both waged and unwaged work. The practical implication of this is that, if we want to both understand and resist contemporary forms of exploitation, Marxists can no longer remain ignorant of or separated from feminist theories and practices. 

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 third part of a series of articles analyzing the book, Eric Toussaint traces how Varoufakis influenced Tsipras to abandon the economic policies of the Syriza programme once in government. 

Kate Millett remembers her mother.  

Much of the UK tabloids' coverage of SOAS students’ demands is an unedifying combination of 1980s “loony Left” bashing and Trumpism.