100 Years of the Institute for Social Research
An interview with director of the Institute for Social Research, Stephan Lessenich, about the tradition and future of a critical theory of society.
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Sowing Seeds of Change, Empire be Damned
Frantz Fanon believed in the power and potential peasants have to change the world. 60 years after the English release of his ground-breaking text The Wretched of the Earth––and to mark this year’s International Day of Peasant Struggle––Levi Gahman and Johannah-Rae Reyes offer a three-part commentary on why we should too.
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From Churches to Lifehouses
Adam Greenfield, author of Radical Technologies, makes a radical proposition of what to do with the thousands of empty churches in the UK and US. Lifehouses can become the centre of a radical reimagining of what makes a community, and where it comes together. -
A revolutionary party is a way to f*** everything up, methodically
Frédéric Lordon explains why the current moment necessitates a revolutionary party – an organization whose goal is to destroy existing capitalist institutions. -
The Socialist Debate over the Mass Strike
The great debate that shaped socialist practice in the 1890s and the early twentieth century centered on the question of the role of the “mass” or “general” strike in struggles against capitalist hegemony. -
The Mutilated World
AI-generated images proliferate online, spreading through diverse political ecosystems and flourishing in the darkest corners of the internet. But, as A.V. Marraccini writes, what would it mean to create the plan of a real city from AI images, and how could we think through its politics? -
Stone Age Daydreams
More and more people are giving up on work and modern society in order to live off-grid, and resurrecting ideas long associated with anarcho-primitivism. But, what does this impasse tell us about the state of the left today? -
The solution to police failure is not more police
The recently published report of the Casey Review into the internal culture of the Metropolitan Police has revealed the deep institutional failures of British policing. Calls in response for more police will only make the problems worse. -
Verso Book Club: April, May, June
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From the Front Lines of the Largest Academic Strike in US History: Graduate Students Across the UC System Go On Strike
For two weeks, graduate student workers from across the University of California have been leading the largest academic workers' strike in US history. Striking worker Misha Lerner details the history of the strike and workers' demands in this article.
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People Of The Soil
Britain is a country shaped by its landscape. But what are the politics of the British countryside? Richard Smyth tracks the chequered political history of nature writing, from Henry Williamson to Paul Kingsnorth.
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Mauvaise Troupe: Zad NoTAV and the affective connections of contemporary struggles
The zad and NoTAV struggles in France and Italy are some of the most dynamic activist struggles today. This extract from the ebook Zad and NoTAV by the French collective Mauvaise Troupe, asks about the affective connections between contemporary struggles.
