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McKenzie Wark looks at Jackie Wang's new book on carceral capitalism, the predatory state, municipal plunder, and algorithmic governance. 

BDS is not only about permission to speak — it is about the colonial ontology of the world.

A compact, printable history of North Korean nuclear weapons development and US reactions to it. 

Pasokification isn’t the only neologism to come out of the Greek experience of the recent years. What followed Pasokification was Syrizification, and this process proved at least equally devastating in terms of its consequences.

In an extended 1982 conversation with the New Left Review editorial board, Tony Benn reviews his career in Parliament. 

Franco "Bifo" Berardi on the rise of mass violence in America, Donald Trump and white resentment

One Marxist line of inquiry into environmental problems has outshone all others in creativity and productivity: the theory of the metabolic rift.

Ashley Dawson, David Harvey, Mychal Johnson, and Catherine Seavitt discuss the future of cities in the face of climate chaos. 

Can we conceive of revolutions in the name of climate justice, and if so, what do they look like?

A brief history of the second Ku Klux Klan, in printable form, by historian Linda Gordon. 

The World Today with Tariq Ali Podcast is now available on iTunes (Apple Podcasts), Google Play, YouTube and SoundCloud

Jodi Dean asks "whether democracy can name a division adequate to a revolutionary anti-capitalist politics."