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Andrew Key on Pier Paolo Pasolini's resetting of the life of Christ in the impoverished landscapes of Southern Italy, and his debt to the thought of Erich Auerbach. 

The second installment of a new text by Stathis Kouvelakis on the development, events and legacy of the Paris Commune, published in three parts across the week.

The latest episode of the Politics Theory Other podcast. 

An interview with Robin Kelley and Charisse Burden-Stelly on Black liberation and socialism.

The first installment of a new text by Stathis Kouvelakis on the development, events and legacy of the Paris Commune, published in three parts across the week. 

Johanna Fernández, author of The Young Lords: A Radical History and a leading member of the movement to bring Mumia Abu-Jamal and other political prisoners home, reports on Mumia's COVID-19 diagnosis. 

Henri Lefebvre's account of the ideology of the Paris Commune, newly translated into English 

In this new edition of a classic, The Intellectual and His People, Jacques Rancière analyzes a question key to struggle: How does the intellectual relate to the masses they theorize about and, ultimately, for?

Jacques Rancière explains the temporality of the promise and how it shapes our political reality.

Historian Alexander Zevin looks through the pages of the Economist and finds a record of democracy's challenge to liberalism.

That diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives presuppose equity is what allows them to assimilate with ease into administrative austerity and the degradation of work. We must raise our expectations about what needs to change about higher education to make it accessible to all.

Ashley Roach-McFarlane recovers a portrait of a forgotten radical, and founder of the Notting Hill Carnival