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TUGSA member Mathias Fuelling on the Temple University strike

Michael Heinrich on Søren Mau's new book, Mute Compulsion.

The current conjuncture demands rigorous analysis if we are to understand the political moment and develop a strategy to respond to it. Alain Badiou undertakes this task, offering thirteen theses on global politics today and suggesting an organizing strategy for the Left given those conditions.

Tom Nairn, who died on Saturday morning, 21st January 2023, made his name with a series of coruscating essays on the British state published in New Left Review and collected in the 1977 book The Break-Up of Britain.  Here, we republish Tom Nairn's classic account of the nature, and the twilight, of the British state.

“Left unexamined is the true beneficiary of air travel and the true driver of emissions: the airline industry itself.” An excerpt from Climate Change as Class War.

An interview with Dylan Riley on Microverses, viewing the present as history, and what sociology has to offer the left

In this excerpt from Images of Class, Jacopo Galimberti discusses interaction between artists and operaismo and autonomia, as well as the debate around "a turn to aesthetics."

Our quickest reads: perfect for those short on time or attention span.

In this excerpt from The Monster Enters, Mike Davis writes on the 2003 bird flu outbreak in Thailand, and how the confluence of slum conditions, ecological destruction, and agro-capitalism will lead to more outbreaks in the future. 

“Lines of connection formed between previously disparate activists  who were gradually bringing together a world-revolutionary movement.” An excerpt from Making the Revolution Global.

Where do we turn when our bodies, physical and political, are under attack?