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Ben Harker maps Williams’s developing positions on the relationship between culture, consciousness, class power, and socialist strategy.

Penelope J. Corfield writes about the intellectual development of her uncle Christopher Hill, one of the most influential writers on seventeenth century England and leading Marxist historian.

An edited extract from the introduction of Kathi Weeks's Constituting Feminist Subjects, which is republished as part of our Feminist Classics set this month

At the heart of Glasgow's unfolding humanitarian crisis for asylum seekers is a system that rewards profit at the cost of humanity, argues Rosa Dee.

Recent years have seen the convergence of new work practices in the academy. From the smile or die ethos which has migrated from the service sector, to "passionate work" and the expectation that you should not only love your job but that you should take it wherever you go. In this essay, Angela McRobbie asks how we can resist these trends in the neoliberal university, and what the radical pedagogical practices of Stuart Hall and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies can teach us about living and working differently.

On Labour and anti-semitism

What would a renewal of social democracy in Germany mean, and at what price? In this article, Richard Seymour questions the platform and strategy of the new left coalition Aufstehen headed by Sahra Wagenknecht and Oskar Lafontaine.

With the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) entering into a "Grand Coaliton" with Merkel's CDU/CSU in the Bundestag, the rise of the far right AfD particularly in the former leftwing heartlands of Eastern Germany, and the launch of the Sahra Wagenknecht led new left-wing grouping Aufstehen which aims to gather those from the disillusioned left of the SPD and members of Die Linke, where next for German politics? In this article, originally published in FAZ,  renowned sociologist Wolfgang Streeck asks what the platform for a renewed social democratic left in Germany should be, and how this politics find its voice in contemporary political debates.

This article is published alongside a response from Richard Seymour.

Pioneering works of feminism from leading writers including Kathi Weeks, Michele Wallace, and Christine Delphy.

"Our reading in 1968 and thereabouts, done in the context of mass movements of social protest, helped to transform us into revolutionaries."

Norman G Finkelstein on the accusations of anti-semitism against Corbyn's Labour Party.

Geoengineering schemes — still largely hypothetical — not only fail to address the underlying causes of climate change; they carry their own profound political, economic, and ecological risks.