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"Explain the gilets jaunes? What are we supposed to explain? Give reasons why things happen that we didn’t expect? Such reasons, in fact, are rarely missing."

If biopower is the power to make live and let live, then what is geopower? What if the power that lay at the boundary between life and nonlife was becoming more important in the Anthropocene? McKenzie Wark approaches this question through a reading of recent work by Elizabeth Povinelli. 

The struggle for Venezuela will decide the destiny of Latin America, argues Claudio Katz. We must recognise global Right's hypocrisy in its attempts to topple Maduro. But it doesn't act alone: similar forces are alive inside a government that has failed to counteract economic collapse.

Nick Estes asks what it means to be a citizen of a nation that invades your land.

Tariq Sheikh describes the role of youth in the revolutionary movement that, since late-December 2018, has engulfed the country. If this youth revolution succeeds, it will be different from previous experiments, ridding Sudan of the cycle of a coup, followed by revolution, followed by coup.

Jean Tible argues that a living Marxism must be open to contamination in order to break the spell of bewitched capitalism. We must introduce Marx into spaces, times, outlooks and practices that are different from its habitual, white, rationalist ones: "A Marx undomesticated, fuel for struggles. A black, feminist, indigenous, worker, peasant, transgender Marx. A savage Marx."

Meagan Day describes the rapid growth of the Democratic Socialists of America and puts forward an electoral strategy for the socialist movement.

Introducing a free ebook about socialists, elections, and the fight for working-class power.

A reading list on working-class power, elections, and left-wing strategy.

"Those who speak a 'humanitarian' language, more than warning against what could happen, are anticipating a reality that they themselves are deeply invested in seeing materialise." Reinaldo Iturriza López examines the current situation in Venezuela, as the Bolivarian Revolution comes under attack from the same neoliberal forces that fuelled its rise.

Don't call it a romance: Laura Fernández Cordero considers the longstanding relationship between feminism and Marxism, and how fresh interpretations are vital in an uncertain world.

The global far-right is returning at an alarming rate, with the latest example being that of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil (analysed by Perry Anderson in the latest LRB). But, is this fascism? The first thing we need to know before we can answer that is a full definition of fascism as an historical phenomena. In this extract from his republished classic Fascism and Dictatorship, Nicos Poulantzas explains the relationship between fascism and the dominant classes.