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Getting Beyond Hope: Facing up to the climate crisis together

If we want to survive the hard times to come together, in a way that upholds our values, we need to stop investing our faith and energy in institutions that are demonstrably failing us.
An Outsider’s Guide to Modern Paris

Justinien Tribillon argues that Paris and banlieue are two mythical and geographical spaces that have been constructed in opposition.
Turning a reprieve into an alternative for power

On 10 July, at the call of several organisations and alternative media, including Contretemps, a rally was held in Pantin on the theme of ‘After 7 July, what next?’ This is the talk given there by Stathis Kouvelakis.
‘I want to read about women who can’t make things.’

In Hannah Regel’s debut novel The Last Sane Woman, Nicola Long is a few years out of a fine arts degree, listless and unenthusiastically employed in London.
The Fascist Disposition

What does the word “fascism” mean today, when fossil capitalism continues its accelerated march toward a climate catastrophe and the liberal democracies of North America and Europe support and arm Israel’s genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza?
Revolutionary Lives | Verso Reading

Biographies and memoirs of people who've lived extraordinary, complex lives including Paul Foot, Marx, Toussaint Louverture, and Rigoberta Menchú.
Remembering Paul Foot: A Tireless Campaigner for Justice

Paul Foot was one of the most influential investigative reporters of his generation.
Yesterday's Peasants, Tomorrow's Fascists?

A new book by historian Patrick Joyce explores the lost world of the European peasantry. But, as farmers protest across the continent, what is the future of the world's agricultural workers?
New Left Review 147, out now.

Rashid Khalidi talks to Tariq Ali about the history of the Palestinian national movement, its fraught relations with neighbouring Arab regimes, the realities of the US-run ‘peace process’, Israel’s grip on the Biden Administration and the strategic calculations – or miscalculations – of Hamas.
Magisterial Figurations

For the final instalment of our Jameson at 90 series, Brittany Murray reflects on Fredric Jameson's The Benjamin Files.
Symptoms of the present

For our Jameson at 90 series, Carolyn Lesjak reflects on Fredric Jameson's book Allegory and Ideology and his unique ability to diagnose symptoms of the present.
Uncompromising Dialectics

For our Jameson at 90 series, Oded Nir writes about Fredric Jameson's Raymond Chandler and the presence of totality in art.