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Jean-Luc Nancy on religion in the modern world.

Here, published for the first time, is an extract from the renowned socialist cultural theorist Raymond Williams's famous ‘When Was Modernism?’ lecture, delivered at the University of Bristol in March 1987, and taken from the newly published Culture and Politics: Class, Writing, Socialism – the first Williams book for more than three decades to include new material.

Originally delivered at a conference in Paris in 2015, here Judith Butler discusses the work of philosopher Ernesto Laclau – who she describes as "one of the truly great thinkers in our lifetimes" – in relation to that of Marx, and to the power of the negative.

Previously unpublished essay on the town of Halifax as a centre of Chartist activity by historians Dorothy Thompson and E.P. Thompson.

An unpublished essay by the historian and leading member of the Communist Party Historians' Group Dorothy Thompson on the Communist Party of Great Britain.

"Julian Assange is a victim of torture and inhuman treatment. This is a threat not just to Assange himself but to freedom of speech everywhere in the world. Nils Melzer’s book is the essential, utterly forensic analysis of this case."

Presenting the Strike MoMa Reader 

The titles below trace this history and provide the backdrop for understanding class struggle today in the context of the collapse of neoliberalism: 

Combatting climate change will take more than adapting to its symptoms. In this reflection on COP26 and a year of climate disaster, Andreas Malm argues that governments need to start targeting the causes of the climate crisis, beginning with fossil fuels. 

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In an article for il manifesto, Claudio Natoli reflects on the life and work of Enzo Collotti. One of the most important historians of European fascism and the anti-fascist Resistance, Collotti died in Florence on October 7 aged 82.

On 28 April 1971, the first issue of the daily version of il manifesto hit the newsstands. Despite countless difficulties, phases when its survival was deeply imperilled, and periods when it temporarily had to suspend publication, fifty years later the newspaper is still with us — and thriving.