Interview with Marina Simonin, who in 2018 with Clara Laspalas and Alexis Cukier, took over the management of French Marxist publisher Éditions Sociales. In it she discusses the history of the publisher and the role of publishing within the French left.
Mitchell Dean responds to the review of his book The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution (co-written with Daniel Zamora) published in the journal Foucault Studies.
How has Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP) succeeded in freeing unprecedented numbers of "long-termers" from New York State prisons?
Isabell Lorey on the rise of authoritarian populism in Europe and beyond.
Emmanuel Macron's campaign to be re-elected French President has come under increasing strain in recent weeks following the so-called “the McKinsey Affair,” named after the giant American consulting firm that was paid enormous sums by the French government for reports that were often completely useless. Frédéric Lordon asks what the controversy says about the state in contemporary capitalism, and what the affair's effects on the forthcoming French elections will be.
Even in times of defeat, the class struggle continues. Everything is not possible at all times, but there are always forks in the road and opportunities – all too often missed – for the forces of popular emancipation. Reflecting on the lessons of the student movement of 1986 and the shattered 'Greek Spring', Stathis Kouvelakis sketches a way forward for the left in 2022.
In the second part of their series on the global conjuncture, Nikhil Pal Singh and Joshua Clover survey our present economic and ecological impasse, and search through the ruins for the green shoots of solidarity and for the "openings that are necessarily present when things fall apart."
According to Esther Benbassa and Jean-Christophe Attias, Éric Zemmour is a far-right politician who, by playing on his status as a Jew, gives the far right, which is traditionally anti-Semitic, a veneer of respectability.
The industry often presents the relation between job precarity and environmental degradation as a zero-sum game: if something is to be gained in terms of good jobs, something must be lost on the the side of health and environment. Here, Lorenzo Feltrin argues that employment precarisation and environmental degradation are far from incompatible, they both result from the capitalist imperative to economise while producing evermore commodities.
Scorched Earth insists on the inseparability of social disintegration and environmental collapse under global capitalism. Civil society and ecosystems are eroding simultaneously.
The history of Ukraine is inextricably linked with antisemitism, from the pogroms of the Russian Civil War to the Ukrainian nationalist complicity in the Holocaust. Such historical connections have once more come to the fore during Russia's invasion of the country, now lead by a Jewish president. Here, historical sociologist Brendan McGeever writes on this complicated past, and what the present Jewish attachment to the idea of Ukraine means for both Jewish identity and the ongoing history of racism in the region and beyond.
Maya Adereth and Neil Warner of Phenomenal World interview Michael Mann on the study of history and the reemergence of great power politics