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An interview with Etienne Balibar explores how concept and history drives his thinking of Marx

From New Delhi, Shigraf Zahbi reports on how "the virus" became "the Muslim virus" in less than a week.

Barnaby Raine writes to mark the launch of a new class  on Marx and his writing, as part of The Brooklyn Institute summer season

Freya Marshall Payne looks at how communities have been imagined under COVID-19 and what the future of Mutual Aid might be after the virus.

Henry Wallace was attacked and then dismissed because he proposed “a century of the common man and woman.” Almost eighty years of that century have passed since his dismissal, and his fight for the future is largely forgotten.

What we're reading, watching, listening to, and doing.

Books that challenge the notion of empire and offer a history of anti-colonial, anti-racist struggle.

Leslie Kern discusses the care work and feminized labor that keeps cities running, asking: once the global pandemic subsides, will care work be forced back into obscurity, or will we work to re-organize our cities in ways that support, value, and redistribute care more equitably?

Books that outline the historical dynamics of populist movements, to current left populism and fascism. Featuring Chantal Mouffe, Enzo Traverso, Nancy Fraser, and more.

Jessie Kindig's introduction to There Is No Outside: Covid-19 Dispatches, an urgent new ebook collection of essays on the global pandemic, from n+1 and Verso Books.

An interview with the sociologist Vivek Chibber on academic Marxism, anti-discrimination and workers' movement.

To commemorate Nakba Day, a reading list on the history of the region and the Palestinian struggle for liberation.