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The author Hilary Mantel, who died on the 22nd September at the age of 70, is best remembered as the celebrated author of the Wolf Hall trilogy that follows the rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII. In this interview with John Rees and Paul McGarr, originally published after the release of her great historical novel about the French Revolution A Place of Greater Safety in 1992, she discusses her early political formation on the left, and the relationship between politics and literature.

In the third and final installment of this interview series, Jacques Rancière reflects on May 1968 and neoliberalism in order to contextualise his work criticising the Althusserian distinction between science and ideology, as well as to shed light on how his own philosophy developed in relation to those of Althusser, Bourdieu, and Foucault.

"I found very appealing the idea of a surveillance spiral between a mother and her daughter"—artist, María Medem, talks us through the design process for Is Mother Dead.

Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean introduce Claudia Jone's essay, "An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!,” an essay that extends and complements the crucial and hard-to-access writings collected in Organize, Fight, Win.

Walter Rodney’s life and legacy — explored in literature and on screen.

In this second interview of the "Critique of the School in Post-’68 French Thought" series, Roger Establet details his experience as a member of the Althusserian research group on "the school" and, in particular, Pierre Bourdieu's influence on their thinking.

Raina Lipsitz looks to Miami for lessons from a radical Black-led abolitionist organization.

Robert Bevan traces the construction of racially and ethnically segregated urban neighbourhoods.

Christian Baudelot founded a research group on "the school" with other students of Louis Althusser in the wake of 1968's events. In this interview, he details the group's ambitions and its trajectory. 

A statement in support of the protests in Iran, and in solidarity with political prisoners, from a group of Iranian activists in exile and former political prisoners

Michel Valensi, director of Editions de l'éclat, talks political publishing, the evolution of book production with the rise of the internet, and what it means to be a political publisher.

Climate fascism is percolating through the cracks of global capitalist crisis. The Zetkin Collective's foreword to the forthcoming Spanish-language edition of White Skin, Black Fuel offers a concise analysis of the current juncture and outlines what must be done to resist the forward march of climate fascism.