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Africa should not be left blank on the map of scholarship that seeks to understand 1968 in a global perspective.

How a Black United Front in Harlem, the Students’ Afro American Society, and Students for a Democratic Society took on Columbia University, Mayor John Lindsay, the New York Times, the NYPD in 1968 — and won!

McKenzie Wark considers the question "Why Marx now?" through a close reading of one of the Communist Manifesto's most famous lines. 

From Verso's own list as well as from the shelves of some other great publishers, a selection of key Marxist art and literary theory titles to mark the bicentenary of Marx's birth – including John Berger's proposal for 'revolutionary art', Susan Sontag's essay 'Notes on Camp', Michele Wallace's virtuosic Invisibility Blues and much more.

A tour of some of the key London locations in Marx's life.

Löwy discusses the many deaths and afterlives of Marxism, Romantic anti-capitalism, and universalism and Latin American Marxism. 

Marx biographer Sven-Eric Liedman asks this very question in his new book. Here he reviews the various biographies that exist – books that in one way or another claim to deal with the complete Marx, his life and his works. 

To mark the bicentenary of the birth of Karl Marx, a range of Marxists choose their favourite book by and about the great man. With contributions from China Miéville, Sara Farris, Mike Davis, Esther Leslie and more!

Elmar Altvater has died, shortly before his 80th birthday.

An excerpt from Angelo Quatttrocchi's lyrical eyewitness account of May 1968 in Paris. 

What the state and its representatives cannot bear is the fact that for ten years the ZAD has experimented forms of life which prefigure a possible future society in the here and now.

May 1968 stands at the precipice into which the historical labor movement will descend.