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Antonio Negri on the Gilets Jaunes and the new wave of protests in France.

The gilets jaunes protests have been marked by a variety of different actions, ranging from the attempts to block oil refineries to the racist attitudes expressed during selective blockades. So what does the yellow vest really mean? A yellow vest is a banal object – it is itself devoid of meaning. In this article, Félix Boggio Éwanjé-Épée argues that this is precisely why progressive forces must fight back against the appropriation of the movement by the Far Right, and hegemonize the meaning of the gilets jaunes. 

Capitalist climate governance has always relied on pseudo-reforms that leave the richest free to accumulate capital, while dumping taxes on working people to nudge them in the 'right direction'. But as the protests of the gilets jaunes show, many working people no longer accept the moralising terms of capitalist approaches to climate change. In this article, Andreas Malm argues that if we really want to save this Planet, we must pursue a different kind of climate politics, one that could learn a great deal from the methods and tactics of the gilets jaunes.

History is filled with cases of left wing governments whose economic plans were sunk by the disciplinary power of global financial markets. With the very real chance of the Labour Party winning any forthcoming general election, would the same happen to them? In this article, Scott Lavery analyses the current conjuncture of global capitalism to see what room to maneuver Corbyn's Labour would have.

The social warfare unleashed by Macron in the past 18 months has sparked anger in the French population. In this article, Frédéric Lordon analyses the gilets jaunes protests.

Emmanuel Macron's regime is in tatters, with plummeting approval ratings and the growing wave of "gilets jaunes" protests. But could this growing discontent be the start of an anti-bourgeois bloc to challenge the neoliberal consensus?

In the introduction to The Limits to Capital, David Harvey explains his rationale and genesis of this major rereading of Marx's seminal text.

In this excerpt from A Companion to Marx's Capital: The Complete Edition, David Harvey discusses Marx's method and urges readers to "hang on like crazy" through the first three, arduous, chapters of Capital, Volume I.

Aria Alamalhodaei interviews Anna Feigenbaum about airborne politics, the use of tear gas as border control, and what resistance to nonlethal weapons looks like.

The spectre of climate catastrophe looms over the ongoing gilets jaunes protests. How can we imagine a liberated future when we can barely even imagine a future without mass extinction? Sophie Wahnich looks at the concept of posterity and revolutionary citizenship from the French Revolution and what it can teach today's activists in this article, originally published by Libération.

"John Berger is one of the world’s most vital corresponders" - Ali Smith introduces John Berger at a landmark British Library event.

John Berger's 1967 essay of materialist art criticism.