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Ruth Wilson Gilmore: On the Centenary of Lenin's Death

Ruth Wilson Gilmore asks how might the politics explained or implied in Lenin’s writings inform our analytical and practical grasp of what is to be done now, in her introduction to Imperialism and the National Question.
Big Ship Stuck

Georgina Voss explores the strangeness of scale in global supply chain systems through the ship that launched a thousand memes, the Ever Given.
Testimonial 15: In defense of Palestine solidarity

In testimonial 15 of our Palestine Uncensored series, scholars in Vienna speak out about the University of Vienna's unilateral cancellation of a teach-in series about Palestine. In the face of censorship, they ask "What would it mean for our solidarity to rest not on notional liberal values, but on a materialist commitment to Palestinian life and endurance, justice and liberation?"
Reclaiming Lenin

For the centenary of Vladimir Lenin's death, Paweł Wargan revisits Lenin's revolutionary thought and shows how Lenin can help us navigate our political conditions today.
Thinking with Lenin on the Centenary of his Death

Introducing new editions on Lenin.
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Marx and Crisis

Here, we publish the translation of the first part of Daniel Bensaïd's introduction to Karl Marx, Les Crises du capitalisme. Bensaïd offers an incisive synthesis of Marx's thought on capitalist crisis across all three volumes of Marx's Capital.
Engineering a kitchen in Gaza
Enzo Traverso on Fascism, Marxism and Israel

Enzo Traverso in conversation with his Verso editor, Sebastian Budgen.
Testimonial 14: Germany can censor its scholars, but it cannot hide its complicity

Germany's repression and censorship of Palestinian solidarity has been especially brutal. In testimonial 14, Thamil V. Ananthavinayagan's describes how his chapter for a collection on settler colonialism was rejected for its discussion of Germany's culpability in the ongoing genocide against Palestinians.
Toni Negri was a reader and continuer of Karl Marx, in an astonishing combination of literality and freedom

Étienne Balibar praises the work of his friend the Italian thinker Antonio Negri, who died on 16 December. Negri theorised creative resistance and new forms of revolt in the face of globalised capitalism.
All departments of human activity

Raphael Samuel grapples with the idea of a ‘people’s history’ in this excerpt from Workshop of the World.