The Bourgeois Olympics and the Workers’ Olympics
In the interwar years the International Workers’ Olympiads were an important part of the labor movement.
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Protean Magazine X Verso Books Reading List
Discounted titles for Protean Magazine subscribers!
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A Radical in Paris
These books will help you engage with all that Paris embodies this summer!
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New Works of Theory in Context
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Modernity and the Climate Crisis
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz examines the history of the environmental crisis with that of modernity. -
Farrukh Dhondy: In The Beginning Was The Word
Farrukh Dhondy explores the beginnings of his desire for revolutionary change and his introduction to Marxism. -
Getting Beyond Hope: Facing up to the climate crisis together
If we want to survive the hard times to come together, in a way that upholds our values, we need to stop investing our faith and energy in institutions that are demonstrably failing us. -
An Outsider’s Guide to Modern Paris
Justinien Tribillon argues that Paris and banlieue are two mythical and geographical spaces that have been constructed in opposition.
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Turning a reprieve into an alternative for power
On 10 July, at the call of several organisations and alternative media, including Contretemps, a rally was held in Pantin on the theme of ‘After 7 July, what next?’ This is the talk given there by Stathis Kouvelakis. -
‘I want to read about women who can’t make things.’
In Hannah Regel’s debut novel The Last Sane Woman, Nicola Long is a few years out of a fine arts degree, listless and unenthusiastically employed in London. -
The Fascist Disposition
What does the word “fascism” mean today, when fossil capitalism continues its accelerated march toward a climate catastrophe and the liberal democracies of North America and Europe support and arm Israel’s genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza? -
Remembering Paul Foot: A Tireless Campaigner for Justice
Paul Foot was one of the most influential investigative reporters of his generation.
