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The social warfare unleashed by Macron in the past 18 months has sparked anger in the French population. In this article, Frédéric Lordon analyses the gilets jaunes protests.

Emmanuel Macron's regime is in tatters, with plummeting approval ratings and the growing wave of "gilets jaunes" protests. But could this growing discontent be the start of an anti-bourgeois bloc to challenge the neoliberal consensus?

In the introduction to The Limits to Capital, David Harvey explains his rationale and genesis of this major rereading of Marx's seminal text.

In this excerpt from A Companion to Marx's Capital: The Complete Edition, David Harvey discusses Marx's method and urges readers to "hang on like crazy" through the first three, arduous, chapters of Capital, Volume I.

Aria Alamalhodaei interviews Anna Feigenbaum about airborne politics, the use of tear gas as border control, and what resistance to nonlethal weapons looks like.

The spectre of climate catastrophe looms over the ongoing gilets jaunes protests. How can we imagine a liberated future when we can barely even imagine a future without mass extinction? Sophie Wahnich looks at the concept of posterity and revolutionary citizenship from the French Revolution and what it can teach today's activists in this article, originally published by Libération.

"John Berger is one of the world’s most vital corresponders" - Ali Smith introduces John Berger at a landmark British Library event.

John Berger's 1967 essay of materialist art criticism.

What is the nature of the gilets jaunes protests that have rocked France over recent weeks? In this interview, originally published in Libération, Chantal Mouffe analyses the protests and the chances for them coalescing into a left-wing political movement.

John Berger presents his singular engagement with one of his greatest enduring influences, the eclectic German critic and thinker Walter Benjamin. 

The Feminist Anti-Fascist Assembly is inviting all women, queers and migrants to lead the ‘No to Tommy Robinson, No to Fortress Britain’ demonstration on Sunday, 9th December, 11am-3pm at BBC Portland Place.

A selection of key works on or by one of the most influential authors of our time, John Berger