What is ecofeminism, and why is it necessary in the fight for climate justice?
The next episode in our new podcast series, Climate Crisis: Time for a New Society. A collaboration between the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brussels and Verso Books.
The next episode in our new podcast series, Climate Crisis: Time for a New Society. A collaboration between the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brussels and Verso Books.
Tensions between Russia and America over the build-up of Russian troops on its border with Ukraine and the expansion of NATO have been increasing in recent months. In this extract from his book Russia Without Putin, Tony Wood details the long history of these geopolitical tensions, and why we are likely to see more turbulent, unpredictable times ahead.
Ilya Budraitskis examines the flawed foundations on which Russian Anti-American sentiment was built.
Canada has been rocked in recent weeks by the "Freedom Convoys" that have descended on the nation's cities and blocked border crossings across the country. Bryan D. Palmer maps the political and social composition of this new alt-right uprising.
The Russian Marxist revolutionary Alexandra Kollantai was a key leader of the Russian Socialist movement, the only woman in the early Soviet government, and a tireless campaigner and writer for women's emancipation. For Valentine's Day, we present an extract from her review of The Sexual Crisis by the German writer Meisel-Hess. It is a reminder that Kollontai's ideas on sexual relations and women's liberation were part of a more general ferment of ideas on these questions in Western Europe at the beginning of this century.
For more, listen to Kristen Ghodsee on Kollontai, and on the political economy of Valentine's Day.
Katherine Angel on the endless negotiations of power within sexual experiences.
Racecraft is not a euphemistic substitute for racism. It is a kind of fingerprint evidence that racism has been on the scene.
Much has changed in London the past 60 years but the extreme inequality at display in the streets remains. Patrick Joyce strolls through his old home city.
Excerpted here, Revolutionary Mathematics peels back the layer of mystification that shrouds our understanding of what machine learning has already done and what it can do for us in the future.
Enzo Traverso on post-fascism in times of pandemic.