The Benalla Affair in Context
The revelation that Emmanuel Macron’s bodyguard disguised himself as a riot cop in order to beat up protestors exposes larger problems with the presidency and policing in France.
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The Fire is Ours: A Statement from Ni Una Menos
If the law is not passed, we will not leave the streets, and they will not be able to leave the congress building, because in the street legal abortion is already the law.
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Freud the Socialist, Freud the Revolutionary
Linda Roland Danil makes the argument for reading Freud as a revolutionary figure, and asks what value Freud's work holds in the age of widening inequality.
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Imran Khan's Impossible Reformism and the Limits of Pakistani Democracy
The results of the Pakistani election offer some cause for hope, but no leader will be able to fundamentally reshape the country as long as the economy is choked by structural limitations and the military is able to exploit the War on Terror.
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When a Map is More than a Map
In this interview extract Giuliana Bruno thinks beyond conventional cartography to present a narrative guide to the imagination, from medieval emotional mapping to Situationist psychogeography.
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Learning How to Talk, Learning How to Build: Elaine Mokhtefi in Post-Independence Algeria
How did a young American woman, born to a secular, working-class New York Jewish family and raised during the Depression, end up in Algiers during a heady period of revolutionary fervor?
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Who’s guilty of antisemitism? Questioning Labour's Definition Bind
Peter Hallward presents the case against Labour adopting the full IHRA definition of antisemitism.
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Richard Seymour on the Labour Party's anti-semitism row
Richard Seymour discusses the ongoing anti-semitism controversy in the Labour Party, the scale and nature of modern anti-semitism, the Labour Party's new code of conduct on anti-semitism, and the media campaign against the Corbynite left with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast.
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The Pundit
Opinion columns were designed by God to have the same lifespan as a croissant.
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Prisons and Class Warfare: An Interview with Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Ruth Wilson Gilmore discusses the function of prisons under racial capitalism, abolitionist organizing, mass incarceration and class struggle, and what has changed since the publication of Golden Gulag.
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Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast — Episode 48: Jennifer Le Zotte on the Sale and Consumption of Second-Hand Clothing
Historian Jennifer Le Zotte joins Betsy Beasley and David Stein to discuss used clothing and the place of second-hand goods in the capitalist economy.
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Senegal’s Street Fighting Years
Researcher and activist Pascal Bianchini describes the lasting effects of the 1960s–70s student movement in Senegal and the condition of the Senegalese left today.
