The forty-fifth president essentially argued that, taken to its logical conclusion, an anti-slavery criteria would force us to take down monuments to many of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. Trump is, in effect, calling our bluff: are we willing to face the full extent of racist violence in America’s history?
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Betita Martínez’s work comprises one of the most important living histories of progressive activism in the contemporary era.
With the publication of Que signifie "changer le monde"? [What does 'changing the world' mean?], a new book based on his seminar, Alain Badiou looks back on what attaches him revolutionary hope.
How can cultural workers respond to climate change? Can the cultural work of responding to climate change be a global conversation? In his latest addition to his General Intellects collection of critical appreciations, McKenzie Wark writes about the novelist Amitav Ghosh's influential lectures on "the great derangement."
China Miéville discusses the Russian Revolution and its relevance for today with Eric Blanc, a historical sociologist and author of the forthcoming monograph Anti-Colonial Marxism: Oppression and Revolution in the Tsarist Borderlands.
Today we must remember Heather Heyer and all those who left their homes in the morning to fight for justice, knowing that they might not come back. These people are never angels or saints. They are ordinary people, like you and me. Their refusal could not be silenced.
On this day in 1791, The Haitian Revolution began with a religious ceremony at Bois Caïman. The revolution against against French colonial rule radicalised the spirit of the French Revolution by expanding its aims to cover the universal human emancipation, and lead to the first free black republic.
An open letter signed by more than twenty intellectuals and activists contesting the Israel-centric definition of anti-Semitism employed in a recent resolution passed by European Parliament.
Any concept which — like "exterminism" — collates all the "inertial," "irrational," "symmetrical" and institutionally "autonomous" aspects of the arms race into a single over-riding process will make it harder to understand the purposeful, strategic function of the current arms build-up within the larger context of the New Cold War.
In an interview pegged to the new French edition of Outlaws of the Atlantic, Marcus Rediker discusses his background and the paths that led him to study sailors and pirates.
In this interview with Nicolas Truong, philosopher and writer Frédéric Gros analyses how walking can take on a political meaning. Whether individual or collective, the march is the mode of popular expression par excellence.