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“If you want to vote Democrat, you are being very disloyal to Jewish people and very disloyal to Israel" After this declaration by Donald Trump and the wave of international outrage it provoked, we publish here an extract from Houria Bouteldja’s book Whites, Jews and Us. Houria makes an interesting contribution to unravelling the relationship between Western nation-states and their Jewish populations since the end of the Second World War. She argues that not only has white antisemitism not disappeared (it is rather metamorphosing into consensual philosemitism) but it is also being imputed almost exclusively to France’s postcolonial subjects, black or Muslim. The book stirred up a fiery polemic in France, where the author is regularly and viciously attacked by the mass media, the guardians of “republican order” and white universalism.
 

To celebrate the launch of The World Transformed 2019 programme we're offering 50% off all our essential Labour reading!

In this edition: Daniel Finn on Labour, a portrait of Mark Fisher by Simon Hammond, and more.

Mario Tronti’s Workers and Capital is a landmark work in the history of Marxism. A central theme of the work is the concept of autonomy. In this article, Seth Wheeler analyses the shifting understandings of autonomy in the history of the left, and Tronti's unique contribution.

The defence of Christian identity is now central to the far Right’s misogynistic and racist campaigns, and some religious leaders are colluding.

Rethink your reading for the academic year ahead.

Franco “Bifo” Berardi recalls the first time he read Mario Tronti's Workers and Capital in 1967, at seventeen years old.

Protests continue to erupt in Hong Kong, sparked by an extradition bill that would allow the Hong Kong authorities to transfer Hong Kong residents to mainland Chinese courts. Yet, as Ho-fung Hung argues, the roots of the movement go much deeper than the demand for self-determination, and have the potential to have dramatic and systemic consequences for ever-increasing US-Chinese imperial rivalry.

Tariq Ali on the situation in Kashmir

The recent decision by the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi to end Kashmir's special status has once more brought the brutal colonial-style military occupation of the region by the world's largest democracy to global attention. In this, an extract from the book Kashmir: The Case for Freedom, Pankaj Mishra asks why, despite the demands of the population, "does the immense human suffering of Kashmir occupy such an imperceptible place in our moral imagination?"

Fifty years ago, British troops were deployed on Northern Irish streets in the name of keeping the peace. But their actions simply worsened the crisis — fueling a conflict that still casts a shadow today.

Natasha Lennard on whether or not Donald Trump and the movement that has coalesced around him ought to be characterised as fascist and the history of anti-fascist violence and its treatment by the media, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast.