John Berger's unique and uncompromising voice as an art critic owed in large part to his political commitments. A unapologetic Marxist, Berger judged art not simply by its aesthetic value but by its capacity to help its observers recognize their collective power.
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The Berkeley Faculty Association on how the struggle over the People's Park exposes the structural contradictions of privatization strategies at UC Berkeley.
"Socialists and activists can deny the snake the right to eat democracy, kill the planet, imprison and harm us, destroy our ability to care for one another." A letter from the editor for Nancy Fraser's Cannibal Capitalism,a September Verso Book Club pick!
What might it look like for survivors of sexual violence to recover the lived reality that has been stripped from their bodies, to once again take their own words and thoughts seriously? Translators Kieran Aarons and Cédrine Michel write about Elsa Dorlin's Self-Defense.
Etienne Balibar's 1964 critical reflection on Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron's book The Inheritors remains important reading for Marxists today.