One of Verso's favourite podcasts Suite (212) returns for a new series, with a series of interviews with a range of contemporary artists, writers and filmmakers and other cultural figures about their work, asking about the political issues that inspire them and the socio-economic conditions that have shaped their practice.
Whilst the full effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are yet to be seen, the near-global lockdown of urban centres has been a jarring experience for city-dwellers. But how does the rapid spreading of the virus change our perception of the city? Here, Ravi Ghosh argues that these conditions prompts us to see the city differently, and sets us the urgent task of extending the right to the city to all its inhabitants.
Lauren Velvick on the ways community arts organisations and festivals in Blackburn and Lincoln have responded to the economic and social effects of Covid-19.
Dialectical thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. But since it must use these means, it is at every moment in danger of itself acquiring a coercive character: the ruse of reason would like to hold sway over the dialectic too.
Amid the lockdown, Labour has elected its new leader. Momentum co-founder and former Corbyn aide James Schneider gives a unique insight into the Corbyn years and weighs the prospects for the British left in the age of Keir Starmer.
Franco 'Bifo' Berardi charts the spiralling collapse of the social order under the effects of COVID-19.
Crises are always moments of decisions. They are moments when we must set out what our priorities are, and asks us how we can achieve them. Peter Hallward argues that the present one caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, could provide the immediate conditions for a new way of living. The clock is ticking, and the stakes are clear. What are we going to do?
Could COVID-19 provide the global wake-up call the world needs?
The introduction to Chantal Mouffe's The Return of the Political, a critique of liberal democracy's inability to understand the problems of ethnic, religious and nationalist conflicts.
5 of our classic Radical Thinkers: reissued for our 50th year.
Paige Murphy and Tayler Hackett discuss the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown on the lives of sex workers in the UK
The State is a 'machine' of repression, which enables the ruling classes to ensure their domination over the working class, thus enabling the former to subject the latter to the process of surplus-value extortion (i.e. to capitalist exploitation).