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In this essay, Christopher Law surveys Judith Butler's writings on anti-Semitism and asseses their relationship to Butler's broader political and intellectual project 

In this contribution to Verso's Caliban and the Witch Roundtable, Sarah Jaffe finds echoes of witchcraft in contemporary anti-capitalism

On Monday 21st October, judge Vanessa Baraitser denied Julian Assange's request for more time to submit evidence and the postponement of the full extradition hearing, from its current 25th February date. Here historian and human rights advocate Craig Murray recounts the events in court.

Announcing some new books on our shelves for Autumn!

A story about a dog-life creature who takes on all too human qualities, from Eka Kurniawan's short story collection Kitchen Curse, translated from the Indonesian by Tiffany Tsao.

British political coverage is fixated on Brexit. But as Corbyn advisor Andrew Murray argues in this excerpt from The Fall and Rise of the British Left, anyone seeking to intervene in British politics today must examine the deeper social and economic divisions that have resulted from decades of neoliberal governance

Carlo Ginzburg, author of The Cheese and the Worms, is one of Europe's most influential historians. In this interview with Claire Zalc, Ginzburg discusses the influence of his parents - the novelist Natalia Ginzburg and scholar of Russian literature Leone Ginzburg - his childhood in Fascist Italy, historical method, Aby Warburg, and the continuing importance of historical scholarship.

In this edition: Perry Anderson on left liberalism, Aaron Benanav on automation theory, and more.

In this excerpt from The Case for the Green New Deal, Ann Pettifor outlines six principles that should guide the transition to an economy capable of sustaining life on earth

In Capital Is Dead, Mckenzie Wark argues that the dominance of the capitalist class may be ending. In order to grasp this epochal transition, leftists must follow the young Marx - and abandon or adapt inherited modes of thought.

Protests in Algeria have been building since the start of the year. The protests, that have already forced former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to step down after 20 years, have lately been facing increasingly hostile repression from police and security services. In this interview with imprisoned student leader Yani Aïdali, he discusses the nature of the student movement, and the possibility of its generating a national-level co-ordination.

The protests in Hong Kong continue to escalate. Yet, the Western left has struggled to come to terms with the situation – torn between the contradictory desire to support the movement and the mainly liberal democratic demands of the protestors themselves. In this article, Pang Laikwan analyses the nature and stakes of the movement.