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Regardless of whether Boris Johnson manages to win the UK General Election on December 12th, the Conservative Party is in deep and possibly existential crisis – a consequence of the long-term effects of neoliberalism on the state, the party, and the ruling class itself.

On Friday, November 1^st, hundreds of people jumped the turnstiles of the New York City subway system in a mass fare evasion following a raucous march through the streets of Brooklyn. The demonstration was called in reaction to an intensification of policing on the subway in the past few months. With further protests scheduled for this Friday in Harlem, Andy Battle looks at the context of the protests in the history of police and state violence in the city, and the re-enclosure of the social in New York over the last forty years.

On the 10th November, around 13,500 people marched through Paris to demand an end to anti-Muslim speech, discrimination against Muslim women, and anti-Muslim violence in French politics and society. Yet, the month leading up to the demonstration, as Musab Younis charts in this article, showed just how deep Islamophobia runs in contemporary France.

10 books that you do not want to miss from this year.

10 stand-out paperbacks from 2019, from Municipal Dreams to New Dark Age!

In office since 2006, Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, has been overthrown in a coup d’état. Debate on how this happened and what it all means has been proliferating on the international left. Ashley Smith talked with Jeffery R. Webber and Forrest Hylton, two long-time observers of Bolivia, to get a better sense of the issues at stake.

Throughout the 2019 general election campaign Politics Theory Other podcast will be releasing regular election special episodes covering topics including: Labour's grassroots campaigning model, the digital war, the leadership styles of Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, Scotland and what the general election means for Scottish independence, and much besides.

How we conceive of the state has profound effects on how we understand political strategy. In this essay, written in response to Michael A. McCarthy's recent intervention, Zachary Levenson and Teresa Kalisz argue that only by seeing the state as truly relational can we avoid the pitfall of placing undue emphasis on organising within the state, rather than the vital work of base building.

British politics, since the 2017 general election, has been dominated by Brexit. What is at stake in the debate, and what are the possible outcomes after December 12th?

Evo Morales didn’t resign; he was overthrown by a coup d’état.

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