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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.

British political coverage is fixated on Brexit. But as Corbyn advisor Andrew Murray argues in this excerpt from The Fall and Rise of the British Left, anyone seeking to intervene in British politics today must examine the deeper social and economic divisions that have resulted from decades of neoliberal governance

Carlo Ginzburg, author of The Cheese and the Worms, is one of Europe's most influential historians. In this interview with Claire Zalc, Ginzburg discusses the influence of his parents - the novelist Natalia Ginzburg and scholar of Russian literature Leone Ginzburg - his childhood in Fascist Italy, historical method, Aby Warburg, and the continuing importance of historical scholarship.