The Old is Dying
The next Labour government will face the immediate challenge of undoing the damage of austerity. But the economic difficulties we now face run much deeper.
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Females by Andrea Long Chu
To celebrate the launch of Females, it's 40% off!
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‘If I’m dreaming, don’t wake me up’
The Lebanese novelist and essayist Dominique Eddé expresses her amazement at a movement that ‘gives visibility and voice to a people in whom no one believed any more’: a Lebanese people united in solidarity
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Rebellion, Reformism, and Reaction in Latin America: An Interview with Jeffery R. Webber
From Chile to Ecuador, a wave of revolts against neoliberal austerity has swept through Latin America. Elections have brought the Peronists back to office in Argentina, and political crisis to Bolivia under Evo Morales. Brazil remains under the shadow of Jair Bolsonaro, but how enduring is his far-right politics, and what lessons does it signal for the rise of the right elsewhere in the region? Ashley Smith talked with Jeffrey R. Webber about the roots, politics, and trajectory of these struggles.
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Claim Your Commute
Why employers should meet their employees halfway and pay 50 per cent of the commuting fare.
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Happy Birthday John Berger!
Happy birthday to John Berger - see our Berger bookshelf.
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A Shorter Working Week
The next fight laid before workers of the 21st century is to demand a further expansion of freedom in the form of a four-day working week.
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New Economy Starter Pack
FREE EBOOK! Writers on the radical new economic agenda for the left: with contributors from James Meadway, Kyle Lewis, Alice Martin, Mathew Lawrence, Cat Hobbs, Will Stronge, Dave Ward, Luke Hildyard, Howard Reed, Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Julian Siravo, and Grace Blakeley.
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Hostile Environment
How the xenophobic assumptions of the New Right have come to pervade mainstream discourse.
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"We will go until the end, on lachera rien!": Interview with Gilets Noirs
In this interview, conducted by the collective Plateforme Enquête Militante in the summer of 2019, members of the Gilets Noirs and the supporting collective La Chapelle Debout go back over the origins of the movement, its practical modes of organisation, and its horizons
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House Plants and Huacas
In this contribution to Verso's Caliban and the Witch Roundtable, So Mayer celebrates the book's wild edges - its endless elicitations of new political and intellectual opportunities
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“We work here, we live here, and we’re not going anywhere!”
On the 1st October, undocumented migrant workers at 12 companies in Paris went on strike. The strikes called for improvements to pay and the exploitative conditions of work, but the unifying call across all sites, though, was that they be given the right to live and work legally in France. Luke Butterly reports on the organising campaign, and the struggles of undocumented workers in Paris.
