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As the relationship between contemporary states and the far-right strengthens, we look to the crisis from a global perspective with this reading list. 

There is something both refreshing and salutary in rediscovering Ernst Bloch, the philosopher of utopia, at this most anti-utopian age. 

Lefebvre's monument to the unknown painter remains to be built. 

Virou Srilangarajah on the life and work of A. Sivanandan.

Emily Apter revisits the debate on cosmopolitanism and examines Étienne Balibar's conception of cosmopolitics. 

An extract from the forthcoming second issue of Chuǎng, a journal analysing the ongoing development of capitalism in China, its historical roots, and the revolts of those crushed beneath it. 

In celebration of the centenery of (some) women's right to vote in the U.K. Sheila Rowbotham's Rebel Crossings tells the history of the intercontinental, cross-class and radical origins of Women’s suffrage

The Zad will host a huge victory party in Notre-dames-des-Landes on February 10. 

In an interview, Andreas Malm describes how he came to study ecology and considers the prospects for the climate movement. 

Zoé Samudzi on anti-black psychic violence as a kind of governmentality.  

Nancy Fraser and David Harvey discuss the future of capital and capitalism. 

A brief attempt to think critically about the potential of a student "fee strike" to run alongside the University and College Union strike.