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An interview with Tony Wood on the current state of Russia-US relations, and the West's misguided obsession with Putin.

Two interviews with Eric Blanc on the importance of rank and file organizing in the wave of teachers strikes.

An indispensable window into the changing shape of the American working class and American politics.

Leo Panitch on Ralph Miliband's theory of the state, his debates with Nicos Poulantzas, and the relevance of his work to the Corbyn project, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast.

Michael Hardt – author with Antonio Negri of Empire, Multitude, Commonwealth, and Assembly – interviewed about the shifting sands of American imperialism and the escalation of tensions between the US and Iran.

Despite the tragedy, the marginalisation of social housing and its occupants remain.

On Walter Rodney's concept and practice of ‘Grounding’ as Critical Pedagogy

In these videos, Frances Ryan explores the devastating reality of austerity on disability benefits – providing a damning indictment of a safety net gone wrong. She is the author of Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People

A special issue exploring the tensions of the global conjuncture across three domains: the dynamics of world capitalism, the clash of forces in the political arena, the multifarious production of meaning in the realm of culture.

Response from the left to the government's recent Augar Review of higher education has so far focused on whether it is deliverable, not whether it is desirable. In this article, Oliver Eagleton argues that the left must reject the Report's proposals in full, and replace them with a radical, de-marketised alternative.

Alexander Gallas on the debates between Stuart Hall and Bob Jessop on the nature of Thatcherite hegemony, and the way in which the New Labour era can be seen as a consolidation of Thatcherite neoliberalism, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast.

HBO's new miniseries Chernobyl, a gloomy and lyrical historical drama that tells the story of the catastrophic explosion of a nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine in 1986, has taken the unusual decision to cast a nearly all British cast of actors. Why does Stalinism seem so plausible in a British accent, and what does that say about the parallels between contemporary Britain and the USSR?