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A tour of some of the key London locations in Marx's life.

Löwy discusses the many deaths and afterlives of Marxism, Romantic anti-capitalism, and universalism and Latin American Marxism. 

Marx biographer Sven-Eric Liedman asks this very question in his new book. Here he reviews the various biographies that exist – books that in one way or another claim to deal with the complete Marx, his life and his works. 

To mark the bicentenary of the birth of Karl Marx, a range of Marxists choose their favourite book by and about the great man. With contributions from China Miéville, Sara Farris, Mike Davis, Esther Leslie and more!

Elmar Altvater has died, shortly before his 80th birthday.

An excerpt from Angelo Quatttrocchi's lyrical eyewitness account of May 1968 in Paris. 

What the state and its representatives cannot bear is the fact that for ten years the ZAD has experimented forms of life which prefigure a possible future society in the here and now.

May 1968 stands at the precipice into which the historical labor movement will descend. 

In a new episode of Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast, Mehrsa Baradaran looks at the history of the racial wealth gap and the ways that Black banks have often acted to distract from more fundamental solutions. 

The first issue of Barricade sees light this month. 

Why France’s biggest police operation since May 68 is prepared to kill for Macron’s neoliberal nightmare.

Nisha Kapoor, author of Deport, Deprive, Extradite, locates the recent Windrush scandal in the long history of empire. Kapoor thinks through the role of citizenship as a tool of empire, showing how imperialism continues to pervade our everyday life. How do we think and do anti-racism? Connections must be made between the Windrush scandal, the War on Terror and deportation targets: all projects of state violence are an attack on our civil liberties.