It’s been one year since Donald Trump was inaugurated, and one year since millions of people flooded to the streets for the anti-inauguration protests and the women’s marches to welcome Trump to his first day in office. This US politics reading list will inform and inspire readers to keep resisting. Â
Achin Vanaik surveys a large body of theories of the nation and nationalism, and considers them in the context of contemporary India.Â
Kristin Ross describes the history behind two territorial struggles in Europe and examines their political consequences.Â
Lynne Segal on the revolutionary power of joy and how to keep political optimism alive in contemporary capitalism.
Judith Butler asks what happens when free speech clashes with other basic values.
In one of his final statements, Nicos Poulantzas discusses the relationship between Marx and Lenin, communist parties and social movements, and the institutions of representative democracy after the Eurocommunist turn.
Balibar discusses nationalism, universalism, Europe, resistance, and the influence of Althusser.Â
Responses from Chiara Bottici, Neil Faulkner, Rose Sydney Parfitt, Tim Jacoby, Charlie Post, Yannis Stavrakakis, William I. Robinson, Laurence Davis, Elena Loizidou, Cenk SaraçoÄźlu, Eva Nanopoulos, Chip Berlet, Stephen Hopgood, and Jessica Northey.Â
What made Trump and Trumpism possible is a crisis of hegemony.
Gerassimos Moschonas compares the emergence and consolidation of the various European social-democratic parties.Â
Are “organizing” and “spontaneity” really opposites?
Marxists should attend to the specific ways in which public law both conditions and is conditioned by social power and political activity.