After the BBC's Panorama documentary, the cries against the Labour Party of antisemitism have reached a new pitch. Yet to understand how the "crisis of antisemitism" has been manufactured, we need to look beyond the particular accusations themselves, and to how the left conceives of oppression.
Was Walter Benjamin a refugee or a migrant? Would he be considered as one or the other today? Is this what it means to actualise, to make contemporary, to bring Walter Benjamin into the Now?
On the anniversary of Walter Benjamin's birth, we republish Esther Leslie's Walter Benjamin: The Refugee and Migrant.
Jared Kushner recently outlined the Trump administration's vision for the future of the Middle East. The Bahrain summit saw Kushner announce a $50 billion "peace plan for Palestine", a plan that is filled with "white man’s burden" racism and that would steamroller the rights of the Palestinians. In this article, Dominique Eddé discusses the plan and what the Trump administration's pro-Israeli one-upmanship means for the future of the region.
Nick Estes' history of Indigenous resistance in the US and the struggle for liberation against North America’s settler colonial violence.
After 4 years in power, SYRIZA were defeated in both recent elections, finishing behind the conservative New Democracy party in each. In this article written in the wake of the European election but before the results were announced of the legislative election, two leading members of the Greek left Costas Lapavitsas and Stathis Kouvelakis reflect on the reasons for SYRIZA's defeat and what it would take for the radical left to once more win power.
We need to wrest digital self-determination from surveillance capitalism and the state. How can the work of Frantz Fanon help us in this struggle?
In the latest Verso Podcast, Bhaskar Sunkara is joined by journalist and author Dawn Foster to examine the key ideas behind his new book, The Socialist Manifesto.
From the Algeria to algorithms, Lizzie O'Shea argues that Frantz Fanon’s ideas have much to offer us as we seek to understand, and resist, some of the most profound challenges of living in the digital age.
"As two friends writing this book together, we strive to make the demands of our movement visible" - an excerpt from the Introduction to Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights.
Natasha Lennard, author of Being Numerous, selects five books that shaped her thinking on fascism permeating life under capitalism.
"It was as if decades of theorizing fascism—as an ideology, or a tendency, a practice, something that never quite disappeared —had been erased overnight and all that mattered in the media frenzy was delineating Trump’s similarities and differences to Hitler or Mussolini."
Frances Ryan on her new book, Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast