Making Fires Does You Good
Author Diaty Diallo on the lessons of street action and fire building in Paris during the protests against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms.
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Translating Crooked Plow
"When people speak of this book in Brazil, they speak of it not only as a published novel but as an event, a happening, something of national importance." — Johnny Lorenz, translator. -
The myth of the reforming monarch - Britain and the Gulf w/ David Wearing
The latest episode of the Politics Theory Other podcast. -
A Message from Andreas Malm’s Publishers to the French State
Andreas Malm's publishers denounce the French government's invocation of Malm in its authoritarian decree dissolving the Soulèvements de la Terre. -
Macron and the Civil War in France
Macron recently side-stepped France's Parliament to institute an unpopular, neoliberal law raising the country's pension age. But Macron is only the most visible symptom of a system that has become totally infected with neoliberalism. -
La fabrique press release dated June 22, 2023
La fabrique has released a statement on the recent dissolution of Les Soulèvements de la Terre. -
Press Release from Soulèvements de la Terre
In France, over the past two weeks, more than thirty arrests have been made in environmentalist circles, and attempts have been made to dissolve Les Soulèvements de la Terre, despite the fact that more than 100,000 people have publicly claimed to belong to the movement, and despite the support of dozens of trade unions, farmers' organisations, associations, parties, MPs, senators and intellectuals. -
Make it New
Recent years have seen a growing number of convincing pop songs produced entirely by machines. But what does this development tells us about contemporary culture's increasing homogeneity, and can artists use the technology against itself to create something genuinely new? -
"This Revolution has begun, and is in progress"
Frederick Douglass on the weakness of masters and anticipating revolutionary time. -
Who is funding the anti-abortion movement in Europe?
The anti-abortion movement relies on global wealth to carry its extremist ideology into the mainstream.
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Walter Rodney and the Russian Revolution
Vijay Prashad on the importance of Walter Rodney's lectures on the Russian Revolution.
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The Groundings With My Brothers at Fifty
In this excerpt from The Groundings with My Brothers, author and educator, David Austin, reflects on Walter Rodney’s vital text, 50 years on.
