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  • The Kites of Jabalia

    The Kites of Jabalia

    Shlomo Sand on the image and reality of the conflicts between Israel and Palestine.

  • Return to the Commons

    Return to the Commons

    Since first occupying Notre-Dame-des-Landes, activists have contructed a world that imagines a more sustainable and communal way of life. In this short film, Ryan Powell and Pierre-Elliot Buet reflect on the promises of autonomous spaces and the challenges that arise in attempts to formalise these meachnisms of collective living. 

  • Race and Class Reductionism Today

    Race and Class Reductionism Today

    What is the relation between race and class? and what do people mean when they say "class reductionism"? Questions of organising strategies relating to race and class have dominated leftist discourse in recent years. In this article, David I. Backer argues that we have to shift the focus of the debate about race and class reductionism to the the role of the relations of production.

  • Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras arrives at the Council of the European Union for the first day of the European Council leaders' summit on March 22, 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. Jack Taylor / Getty

    Syriza’s Repressive Turn

    Alexis Tsipras’s government promised to end austerity. Now it’s defending the banks against people evicted from their homes — and persecuting those who protest.

  • A playlist from Jenny Hval

    A playlist from Jenny Hval

    A playlist from artist, musician and author Jenny Hval, filled with the songs she was listening to as she wrote her debut novel, Paradise Rot.

  • A Move Forward for the Korean Women’s Movement

    A Move Forward for the Korean Women’s Movement

    In response to high-profile accusations of sexual assault and the gathering storm around the prevelance of spy cam footage in the Korean porn industry, the past year has seen a snowballing women's movement in the traditionally conservative Korean society. In this article, So Yun Alysha Park looks at the tactics of the movement and its chances for enacting lasting change.

  • Pascale Casanova: World Citizen of Letters

    Pascale Casanova: World Citizen of Letters

    Pioneering scholar of world literature Pascale Casanova died on 29th September at the age of 59. This essay by Xavier de La Porte originally published in L'Obs, looks back at her life and her work.

  • Jewophobia

    Jewophobia

    This summer, scandals around anti-semitism in the Labour party, and British society more generally, have flared up repeatedly. Yet, amidst the slanging match, nobody has stopped to develop an account of anti-Semitism capable of explaining both its persistence in contemporary Britain and its improper mobilisation as an allegation. In this piece, an extract from an essay in the forthcoming issue of Salvage, Barnaby Raine argues that it is precisely in developing a rigorous theory of anti-Semitism, one that moves away from conspiratorial thinking, is now an urgent task for the left.