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Inspired by Marie Kondo, we've had a clear out! All books on this list are now 70% off until January 27, 23.59 EST.

The Gilet Jaunes protests have rocked the French political establishment in recent months. There has rarely been a president as hated as Macron is today, and his leadership looks increasingly enfeebled. In this article, Dardot and Laval analyse the protests and what they might mean for French poltics.

Ten years ago this month, Russian human rights advocate and journalist Stanislav Markelov was shot and killed by a Russian ultranationalist Nikita Tikhonov on a busy Moscow street. The aftermath of the murder helped to bring to light the collusion between the Russian state and the nexus of ultranationalist groups responsible for Stanislav Markelov's killing. In this article Thomas Rowley and Guiliano Vivaldi analyse the events that lead up to the murder, and Markelov's incredible work fighting for the oppressed in Russia.

This month two socialists were sworn in to Congress: Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of the Bronx. There are now 131 women in Congress, more than ever before, many of them progressive women of color. In this article, Liza Featherstone argues that this offers hope that we can break free of the tired feminism vs. socialism debate that dominated the 2016 presidential primary.

In memory of the great Rosa Luxemburg, a letter to Sophie Liebknecht.

With election of Jair Bolsonaro as President of Brazil, Antonio Negri reflects on the resurgent global far-right.

"For today, I have to close" - Rosa Luxemburg's last letter to Clara Zetkin.

Joni Alizah Cohen discusses the relationship between transmisogyny and anti-semitism in Nazi ideology and her article, 'The Eradication of “Talmudic Abstractions”: Anti-Semitism, Transmisogyny and the National Socialist Project', with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast

In January 1919, the German Social Democratic Party turned guns on its own supporters, brutally putting down the Spartacist uprising. In this article historian and writer Klaus Gietinger argues that as right-wing mass movements rock countries across Europe and the good old SPD seems doomed to collapse, the party must finally confront its own history.

An excerpt from J.P. Nettl's re-issued biography of Rosa Luxemburg.

Jacques Ranciere interviewed in Chile about his work, contemporary politics and the rise of the far-right.

The past year has seen the continuation of the debates in the DSA around questions of class, identity and strategy. In this article, David I. Backer argues against a class separatism which would reduce questions of identity to those of class, and argues for a new perspective which is attentive to both the structures and the experience of capitalist society.