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  • Stokely Carmichael's Black Power Address

    Stokely Carmichael's Black Power Address

    In late 1966, Stokely Carmichael was arrested during a Mississippi rally in the aftermath of the Selma campaign. On his release, he advocated Black Power, representing a break with the theory of nonviolent resistance. Strongly influenced by the work of Frantz Fanon and his landmark book Wretched of the Earth, along with others such as Malcolm X, Carmichael led SNCC to become more radical. He resigned as chairman in May 1967 and became more closely aligned with the Black Panther Party. To celebrate the anniversary of his birth, we publish the text of his speech delivered at the University of California at Berkeley expounding on his aims forty-nine years ago in October 1966.

  • Paolo Gentiloni and Matteo Renzi, December 2016. via Wikimedia Commons.

    Country for Old Men

    Youth grievance was a major part of the 59 per cent vote that forced the resignation of Italy's former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in December 2016. Crankish remarks by the Democratic Party’s labour minister about young people leaving the country reflect the often gerontocratic codes of Italian public life, but they also drew political debate back onto one of the country’s defining social ills.

  • Our Aesthetics

    Our Aesthetics

    In General Intellects I only touched on aesthetic questions. This essay extends my treatment there of Hiroki Azuma and Angela McRobbie, with a look at an influential book by Sianne Ngai.

  • Jacques Rancière, June 2015. Photo by Stéphane Burlot. via Libération. 

    Rancière: Democracies on the move

    Should we await le Grand Soir – the climactic "great night" of revolution? Or re-organise other common worlds in the here and now, making visible the capacities and intelligence of all those who live in them? 

  • It's Grime Wot Won It

    It's Grime Wot Won It

    One of the most unexpected media storms of the 2017 general election was over the hashtag #Grime4Corbyn. In this extract from The Wire Primers, acclaimed music writer Simon Reynolds takes us on a tour of Grime's seminal records.

  • Dome of El Koubba Mosque, Tunis; where Ibn Khaldun studied.

    Ibn Khaldun and The Myth of "Arab Invasion"

    In this excerpt from Ibn Khaldun: The Birth of History and the Past of the Third World, Yves Lacoste shows how Ibn Khaldun's work refutes the myth of the "Arab invasions [of the Maghreb] of the eleventh century," despite the uses to which it has been put by the authors of the myth.