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A Guide to our April Titles

From an anti-racist analysis of the pro-Israel lobby which robustly rebuffs anti-Semitic conspiracies, how the natural and built environment has become a vehicle for siphoning money from the many to the few, and a new collection of stories from the author of Terminal Boredom, this is our guide to our new titles coming out this April!
France on the Eve of a Mass Strike?

On the eve of 7 March, Juan Chingo and Romaric Godin were interviewed by Marina Garrisi for RP Dimanche about the pattern of the current confrontation in France, its potentialities and weaknesses, as well as a series of strategic problems raised by the situation.
Han Suyin and the Literature of Anticolonialism

Erik Linstrum on Han Suyin's lost epic of anticolonial politics
The Met is Built to Behave Like This

The authors of Charged show how the recent Casey Report into the structural failures of the Met comes as no surprise. In fact, they show, such discrimination is implicit in the institution. And the government is only making the situation more dangerous.
Their Regime Must Fall

French President Emmanuel Macron has chosen to force his hugely unpopular pension reform into law without a vote by resorting to Article 49.3 of the French Constitution. Joseph Andras, author of Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us, comments on the move, spreading protests, their historical precedent and possible future.
Simón Vázquez: ‘Radical culture has split away from political and social movements’

Publisher Simón Vázquez launches Verso Libros and Manifest Llibres with the aim of providing ‘sharp tools’ of thought. In his view, radical books are not a niche market.
Politics Theory Other: Fascist echoes w/ Adam Tooze

The latest episode of the Politics Theory Other podcast.
Translating Walter Benjamin

Essays from the translators of Walter Benjamin’s The Storyteller on their approach to their task.
Behind Enemy Lies: War Reporting in the Age of Fake Facts

Read this excerpt from Behind Enemy Lies by Patrick Cockburn and take a moment to view our reading list: The Invasion of Iraq: 20 Years On
The Invasion of Iraq: 20 Years On

Reflecting on the legacy of the war on Iraq, for the Middle East and for the West.
After Black Lives Matter: a Letter From the Editor

"This is the most thorough exercise in historical and political thinking on the topic. The argument is simple with deep implications. Deploying accessible political theory, historical arguments and contemporary examples, After Black Lives Matter points the way toward a different kind of movement and a different sort of society." – Asher Dupuy-Spencer, editor
'Legitimacy' Cretinism

In France today, elections are treated as the primary source of democratic legitimacy. But, Frédéric Lordon argues, this electoral deference fetishizes legal procedure at the expense of political action, thus eroding democratic politics.