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The history of sabotage as a suppressed tool of the labor movement, and what it can bring to a new generation of climate activism. 

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Agnes Khoo-Dzisi charts the political, social and economic consequences of COVID crisis in Ghana, and proposes a unified response from the Global South

Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin, longstanding friends, reflect on the relationship between philosophy and gender, and the differentiated paths and visions this can generate.

Bruno Amable, author of forthcoming The Last Neoliberal, explores how the ‘visionary’ speeches of the current French leaders to reveal an authoritarian turn.

Alain Brossat and Alain Naze argues that every revolution involves storming the places of power. Surely, the insurrection by the alt-right on January 6th should not cause crocodile tears on the part of those who seek radical change?

Andreas Malm makes an impassioned call for the climate movement to escalate its tactics in the face of ecological collapse.

Alice Swift on the history of Reclaim the Power and Ende Gelände.

"Who manages the digital commons? As the public sphere becomes an privatised platform, who watches the watchmen?" –Leo Hollis, editor

Who are the activists of Extinction Rebellion, and how has their particular set of tactics come to set the limits for climate activism?

Introducing this month's Verso Roundtable, a series of three articles in conversation with Andreas Malm's How to Blow Up a Pipeline.