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  • Care Crisis and Care Strike

    Care Crisis and Care Strike

    In State of Insecurity, Isabell Lorey explores the possibilities for organization and resistance under the contemporary status quo, and anticipates the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious. In this extract she looks at care crisis and care strike.

  • Seven Theses on the Capitalist Democratic State

    Seven Theses on the Capitalist Democratic State

    What is the capitalist democratic state and how should it be confronted? The left has typically seen the state either as an instrument of class rule that needs to be "smashed" or, as with social democracy, as a neutral medium which can be wielded by functionaries with the correct ideas. In this, a series of seven theses on the nature and function of the capitalist state, Michael A. McCarthy argues that both are wrong and that we need a reinvigoration of the late work of Nicos Poulantzas for a full, democratic understanding of the state.

  • Andres Rodriguez

    Kanders Must Go: An Open Letter from Theorists, Critics, and Scholars [Updated list of signatories]

    Open letter signed by theorists, critics, and scholars calling for the removal of Warren B. Kanders – CEO of a company responsible for the manufacturing and marketing of weapons such as the tear gas used against migrant families at the U.S./Mexico border, Water Protectors at Standing Rock, protestors in Ferguson, Oakland, Palestine, Puerto Rico, Egypt – from the board of the Whitney Museum.

    Now updated with the signatures of more than 100 artists, including a number of artists participating in the upcoming 2019 Whitney Biennial.

  • Crush the Saboteurs

    Crush the Saboteurs

    Since Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labour Party, the language of treason has returned to British political discourse - notably so with the recent video footage of soldiers in Afghanistan firing at a picture of Corbyn and Nigel Farage's claims that he would ‘pick up a rifle’ if Brexit was not delivered. In this article, Eleanor Penny analyses what it at stake in this new language of treason and what that means for British politics and society.