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Good sex shouldn't depend on faultless self-knowledge. Katherine Angel puts forward the case for desire's emergent and contextual nature.

Marie Edwards' powerful feminist manifesto from 1974.

Moving with trends across the economy, people increasingly purchase their clothes online. But what has this done to labour in the fashion industry? Here, Angela McRobbie writes on the new political economy of fashion, and the degradation of labour in this traditionally feminised sector.

From Charlotte Brontë to Carrie Bradshaw, via Betty Friedan: Leslie Kern on how urban architecture has expanded and constrained women's freedom to live independently and without men. 

Despite its flagrant impossibility, heterosexuality can inspire a utopian love of difference in those who choose to follow its path, argues Sophie Lewis. Just don't look to the 'straight camp' of Love Island for inspiration. 

Natasha Lennard reflects on the enduring necessity of marriage in order to prove one's love to the state.

For feminists, this election presents a clear choice — between advancing the interests of 1 percent of women and fighting for the liberation of the rest. Bernie Sanders is on the side of the 99 percent.

After three-and-a-half weeks of fierce campaigning, Ireland goes to the polls today. Belfast based journalist Luke Butterly looks at what it’s all about, and what might come next

Sean Bonney, one of the finest British poets of our time, died in Berlin on 13^th November. William Rowe discusses his life and work.

Joe Biden is someone who, by virtue of the political, social, and historical forces that shaped his life, made choices and drew political lessons that not only make him ill-suited to combat Trumpism but led him to help engineer the very conditions that handed Trump victory in the first place.

This month 100 years ago, in February 1920, Ernst Toller and Ernst Niekisch became cell neighbours in the Bavarian prison fortress of Niederschönfeld. Both had occupied leading posts in the government of the ill-fated Bavarian Soviet Republic. Here we present a translation of Niekisch's account of his imprisonment with Ernst Toller in Niederschönfeld prison, providing a valuable insight into the aftermath of the Soviet.

History tells us is that progress for working people has only ever been achieved by the collective self-empowerment of organised labour.