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"As a revolution, 1968 failed [....]. Nevertheless, 1968 changed almost everything in both culture and politics."

Linda Roland Danil explores Freud's ambiguous position on women's emancipation in light of the #metoo movement.

Max L. Feldman on Jacob Rees-Mogg's nostalgic view of British history and the pitfalls of creating a national military myth.

Karl Polanyi is being hailed as the intellectual inspiration behind Labour's new economic strategy. But, as Gareth Dale notes, his work, though rich, lacks a thorough conception of political power.

Ralph Miliband on how the reasonable men of capitalism orchestrated a coup against Salvador Allende in Chile 45 years ago today.

Is Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities more relevant than ever? Now 50% off as part of our Student Reading Sale.

Tom Mills, author The BBC: Myth of a Public Service, discusses the problems of the UK media, the Labour Party leadership's proposals for media reform, and the media class's aversion to workplace democracy with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast

Stathis Kouvelakis on how Yorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth can help us understand Tsipras's capitulation to the Troika. 

In the first part of the series Unlearning Decisive Moments of Photography, Ariella Azoulay urges us to unlearn the knowledge that calls upon us to account for photography as having its own origins, histories, practices, or futures, and to explore it as part of the imperial world that we operate in. 

Antony Lerman on the need to understand the history of the current attempt to define antisemitism.

Nandini Sundar on the recent attempts to silence those who have raised their voice against the abuse of state power in Modi's India.

London’s violence ‘epidemic’ is increasingly discussed as a problem contained amongst young Black men. Becka Hudson argues that this framing fails to stand up to scrutiny, and that its repetition is facilitating racist, draconian state responses to the problem.