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The Populist Tactic
"The internet has simply exacerbated the pre-existing trends of the neoliberal period. But at the same time, the internet is not solely a means of communication. It is a social form—a type of association or community, or a machine to generate 'imagined communities.'" -
A letter to Cybele: Goddess of thresholds, transitions, and street raves.
"If you’ll pardon the anachronism: you have always had a special relation to us t-girls.”
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Talking shit
What links Karl Marx, William S. Burroughs, Dalit struggles in India and the Yetties' famous Muckspreader Song? Ed Emery writes on the centrality of excrement, both metaphorical and literal, to the modern world. -
Listening to The People’s History of Scotland
Launching a new history podcast, from the author of The People’s History of Scotland, Chris Bambery. -
Pandora’s Box | History Made Conscious
The opening of pop culture, literature, the arts, aesthetics and all of intellectual life to Marxist view in the late twentieth century marked bold and disruptive possibilities for feminist thought. -
Colonizing Kashmir: Interview with Hafsa Kanjwal
Interview with Hafsa Kanjwal about Indian's decades long occupation of Kashmir -
SALE ENDS TOMORROW! Verso Student Reading Sale: A Recap
Last chance! Save on all books, including pre-orders. PLUS: We've handpicked six ebooks that you can download for free with any purchase! -
Dialect Painting | Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini elaborates a theory of poetry and painting both inside and outside of the language of bourgeois ideology -
Rosa Luxemburg on the purpose of May Day
Rosa Luxemburg observes the changing pulse of the proletarian struggle from the May Day celebrations in 1907. -
Sick in the city
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed spatial conditions as opposed to pure population density as key factors in how infection travels through a city.
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A face in the crowd
Marshall Berman, the celebrated political philosopher and urbanist, died ten years ago this month. His deep commitment to a Marxist humanism, a 'Marxism with soul', has much still to teach us.
