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Kitsch and woo-woo: cinematic visions of the ultrarich

Recent years have seen a boom in cinematic fantasies of the uber-wealthy where viewers are treated to mass spectacles of excess. But can any of them ever match the reality of the new elite, which is always dumber, more tasteless, and yet still more morally grotty than fiction could allow?
Nine Days in May, 1926

Churchill’s fiscal lunacy created the conditions that led to the 1926 general strike.
Politics Theory Other: The backlash against Palestine solidarity w/ Hil Aked

The latest episode of the Politics Theory Other podcast.
Les Soulèvements de la Terre have succeeded in reorienting the gaze of city dwellers towards the countryside

In this in-depth interview, Kristin Ross discusses her recently published book, La forme-Commune, and the protests that have been erupting across France.
Revelation’s Edge

No politics but class politics: but which class and what politics? Joshua Clover and Nikhil Pal Singh argue, against those who seek to cleave race from class, that the proletariat is found, like power, anywhere there’s people.
Abolition Geography: Ruth Wilson Gilmore & Dalia Gebrial on the Verso Podcast

Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Dalia Gebrial join Eleanor Penny to discuss prison abolition, racial capitalism, and critical geography.
Class War in Ten Novels

Mark Steven, author of Class War: A Literary History, lists the ten greatest novels of class warfare, from a mythic retelling of the Haitian Revolution to a radical reassertion of humanity in the face of dehumanization.
Walter Benjamin's legacy

In this video Esther Leslie and Stuart Jeffries discuss the life and legacy of Walter Benjamin.
David Harvey talks to Verso Books

The radical intellectual discusses becoming a Marxist, and his latest work on Marx's Grundrisse.
Emmanuel Macron’s republican order

While the French people strike, protest against, and decry Macron's law raising the pension age, Macron remains unmoved, immune to the people's demands. This, Jacques Rancière argues, inaugurates a new era for the French state: one of brutal police repression.
The Parthenon Marbles: The Case for Reunification

The return of the marble chapters from the British Museum to Greece will be fulfilment for Greece and for world heritage.
A Conversation with Ernest Mandel

“The fact that I am still alive is really the exception to the rule.”