Blog

How the xenophobic assumptions of the New Right have come to pervade mainstream discourse.

In this interview, conducted by the collective Plateforme Enquête Militante in the summer of 2019, members of the Gilets Noirs and the supporting collective La Chapelle Debout go back over the origins of the movement, its practical modes of organisation, and its horizons

In this contribution to Verso's Caliban and the Witch Roundtable, So Mayer celebrates the book's wild edges - its endless elicitations of new political and intellectual opportunities

On the 1st October, undocumented migrant workers at 12 companies in Paris went on strike. The strikes called for improvements to pay and the exploitative conditions of work, but the unifying call across all sites, though, was that they be given the right to live and work legally in France. Luke Butterly reports on the organising campaign, and the struggles of undocumented workers in Paris.

In this contribution to Verso's Caliban and the Witch Roundtable, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay argues that the persecution of unruly, 'unproductive' women in Europe during the transition to capitalism paralleled the subjection of 'indigenous' populations under colonial rule

In this contribution to Verso's Caliban and the Witch Roundtable, Alys Weinbaum shows how Federici's work illuminates capital's fundamental drive to dominate reproductive processes 

In this contribution to Verso's Caliban and the Witch Roundtable, Peter Linebaugh explicates the intellectual traditions which Silvia Federici drew from and transcended in her innovative study of witchcraft and the origin of capitalism

In this essay, Christopher Law surveys Judith Butler's writings on anti-Semitism and asseses their relationship to Butler's broader political and intellectual project 

In this contribution to Verso's Caliban and the Witch Roundtable, Sarah Jaffe finds echoes of witchcraft in contemporary anti-capitalism

On Monday 21st October, judge Vanessa Baraitser denied Julian Assange's request for more time to submit evidence and the postponement of the full extradition hearing, from its current 25th February date. Here historian and human rights advocate Craig Murray recounts the events in court.

Announcing some new books on our shelves for Autumn!

A story about a dog-life creature who takes on all too human qualities, from Eka Kurniawan's short story collection Kitchen Curse, translated from the Indonesian by Tiffany Tsao.