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Love does not exist in a vacuum. In post-Apartheid South Africa, the tensions between radical solidarity and quiet diligency stand to rupture even the purest human connections. 

The death of Alain Krivine on 12 March, aged eighty, saw the passing of the last of the leading ‘68ers who had remained faithful to the revolts of his youth, mixing anti-imperialism, anti-Stalinism and anti-capitalism. He combined his fidelity to his cause with a clear integrity, at odds with sectarianism or the lust for power.

Perspectives on Russia's history and the wider geopolitical landscape, featuring Tony Wood, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Ilya Budraitskis, and more.

Verónica Gago on Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker’s classic history of maritime radicalism and how, to this day, it inspires fresh readings in different parts of the globe.

A global atlas of feminist strike and the organizations that sustain it, from the indomitable Verónica Gago

Ayyaz Mallick remembers Aijaz Ahmad, author of In Theory who passed away on 9 March 2022.

A certain revival of interest has been felt in recent years for Françoise d'Eaubonne and her theories. The dangers that she warned us of at the dawn of the 1970s—deforestation, nuclear danger, pollution, resource exhaustion—is of burning topicality.

Where did the idea of ecofeminism come from?

As Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, with horrifying consequences, our need for a deeper understanding of the conflict increases. In this reading list Tony Wood, author of Russia Without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War, selects five books that question Russia's foreign policy and evolving nationalist ideology, as well as the wider geopolitical tensions at play.

Verso editor Jessie Kindig on editing Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, part of a roundtable of responses to Potential History.

Alberto Toscano reviews the Spinozan social science approach of Frédéric Lordon, as exemplified in his book Imperium: Structures and Affects of Political Bodies.

Zoë Druick asks if documentary films can escape their imperial past, part of the Verso roundtable "Unlearning Imperialism" considering the work of Ariella Aïsha Azoulay.