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Books that challenge the notion of empire and offer a history of anti-colonial, anti-racist struggle.

Leslie Kern discusses the care work and feminized labor that keeps cities running, asking: once the global pandemic subsides, will care work be forced back into obscurity, or will we work to re-organize our cities in ways that support, value, and redistribute care more equitably?

Books that outline the historical dynamics of populist movements, to current left populism and fascism. Featuring Chantal Mouffe, Enzo Traverso, Nancy Fraser, and more.

Jessie Kindig's introduction to There Is No Outside: Covid-19 Dispatches, an urgent new ebook collection of essays on the global pandemic, from n+1 and Verso Books.

An interview with the sociologist Vivek Chibber on academic Marxism, anti-discrimination and workers' movement.

To commemorate Nakba Day, a reading list on the history of the region and the Palestinian struggle for liberation.

Luke Butterly charts the plight of undocumented migrants in France, the Gilet Noirs, during the COVID-19 crisis

In a violent and warming world the rich can afford to protect themselves—with gated neighborhoods, getaway homes, and walled nations—and the poor are left with few options but climbing over the barriers and sometimes cramming their life stories into a sympathetic narrative. As other doors have been slammed on migrants by successive administrations—the “line” to get in has become so long and serpentine, it effectively serves as another wall—claims of fear are increasing.

The Progressive International demands that this crisis should be the starting point of a new socialist internationalism. By Nihal El Aasar

Liberal feminism outsources oppression. A global pandemic has made that even clearer. 

The current crisis has made the dangers of austerity painfully clear. Harry Quilter-Pinner argues for a new, popular consensus on the welfare state based on equality and justice.

In an new preface from Disobey!, Frédéric Gros observes the gilet jaunes and proposes a new way of thinking about protest, and government's response to it.