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The Mutilated World

AI-generated images proliferate online, spreading through diverse political ecosystems and flourishing in the darkest corners of the internet. But, as A.V. Marraccini writes, what would it mean to create the plan of a real city from AI images, and how could we think through its politics?
Stone Age Daydreams

More and more people are giving up on work and modern society in order to live off-grid, and resurrecting ideas long associated with anarcho-primitivism. But, what does this impasse tell us about the state of the left today?
The solution to police failure is not more police

The recently published report of the Casey Review into the internal culture of the Metropolitan Police has revealed the deep institutional failures of British policing. Calls in response for more police will only make the problems worse.
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From the Front Lines of the Largest Academic Strike in US History: Graduate Students Across the UC System Go On Strike

For two weeks, graduate student workers from across the University of California have been leading the largest academic workers' strike in US history. Striking worker Misha Lerner details the history of the strike and workers' demands in this article.
People Of The Soil

Britain is a country shaped by its landscape. But what are the politics of the British countryside? Richard Smyth tracks the chequered political history of nature writing, from Henry Williamson to Paul Kingsnorth.
Mauvaise Troupe: Zad NoTAV and the affective connections of contemporary struggles

The zad and NoTAV struggles in France and Italy are some of the most dynamic activist struggles today. This extract from the ebook Zad and NoTAV by the French collective Mauvaise Troupe, asks about the affective connections between contemporary struggles.
A Guide to our April Titles

From an anti-racist analysis of the pro-Israel lobby which robustly rebuffs anti-Semitic conspiracies, how the natural and built environment has become a vehicle for siphoning money from the many to the few, and a new collection of stories from the author of Terminal Boredom, this is our guide to our new titles coming out this April!
France on the Eve of a Mass Strike?

On the eve of 7 March, Juan Chingo and Romaric Godin were interviewed by Marina Garrisi for RP Dimanche about the pattern of the current confrontation in France, its potentialities and weaknesses, as well as a series of strategic problems raised by the situation.
Han Suyin and the Literature of Anticolonialism

Erik Linstrum on Han Suyin's lost epic of anticolonial politics
The Met is Built to Behave Like This

The authors of Charged show how the recent Casey Report into the structural failures of the Met comes as no surprise. In fact, they show, such discrimination is implicit in the institution. And the government is only making the situation more dangerous.
Their Regime Must Fall

French President Emmanuel Macron has chosen to force his hugely unpopular pension reform into law without a vote by resorting to Article 49.3 of the French Constitution. Joseph Andras, author of Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us, comments on the move, spreading protests, their historical precedent and possible future.