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  • We need a national People’s Power campaign

    We need a national People’s Power campaign

    To win public support for the cause of energy transition, People’s Power campaigns need to develop radical new forms of energy democracy, ones that involve equitable popular access and governance directed to the needs of those who have borne the toxic brunt of fossil capitalism.

  • The viral emergency in Palestine

    The viral emergency in Palestine

    How has the pandemic made itself felt in Palestine?  S C Molavi and Eyal Weizman, of Forensic Architecture, look at how Israel has used the coronavirus crisis in order to further consolidate its regime of surveillance and domination against Palestinians.

  • Announcing Spectre Journal

    Announcing Spectre Journal

    Announcing Spectre, a new journal of new, internationalist, Marxist-feminist, anti-racist analysis, strategy, and debate--a project that needs your help by May Day!

  • Politicising depression during a pandemic

    Politicising depression during a pandemic

    The Coronavirus pandemic has confined us to our households, caused thousands to lose their jobs and spread debilitating panic and despair. Calls to crisis helplines are surging and the majority of us are feeling anxious or low. But, Sian Bradley asks, can politicising these feelings help forge collective healing?

  • Five book plan: The making of Putin’s Russia

    Five book plan: The making of Putin’s Russia

    As Vladimir Putin attempts to extend his grip on power into the future, Tony Wood, author of new-in-paperback Russia Without Putin, picks out five books that will help us think about how Russia works, and where Putin's power came from in the first place.

  • All the little flowers by Theodor Adorno

    All the little flowers by Theodor Adorno

    The most blissful memory of a person can be revoked in its very substance by later experience. He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

  • The Midnight Hour: The Watts Uprising

    The Midnight Hour: The Watts Uprising

    The lead-up to the Watts rebellion in 1965 and the findings of the Hard-Core Unemployment report published in December 1965 by two veteran researchers at UCLA’s Institute of Industrial Relations.

  • Viral terminology, technology and capitalism

    Viral terminology, technology and capitalism

    Viral metaphors abound in the cultural and corporate spheres. The AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s influenced the way we spoke about the burgeoning internet technology sector – replete with computer "viruses" and "bugs" – and in doing so helped to entrench existing heirachies. The language of the Covid-19 pandemic is already infiltrating how the crisis is written about and, as Nathalie Olah argues, the way we narrate a crisis has fundamental implications for how it is seen, and who is hit hardest by its effects.

  • Life in Lockdown: Breanne Fahs

    Life in Lockdown: Breanne Fahs

    In this new series, authors give us a window into their quarantined days. Here Breanne Fahs waxes poetic about Carey Mulligan, John Prine, and comfort foods.