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British universities are targeting and punishing their students for expressing support for Palestinians. In Testimonial 17 of our Palestine Uncensored series, a medical student describes being suspended from their university as retribution for their public solidarity with Palestine.

Søren Mau discusses what communism might look like, as well as the key themes in his book Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital.

Though E.P. Thompson is recognized as one of the 20th century's great historians, during much of his life, "the writing of history took a back seat to the actual making of history." For the centenary of Thompson's birth, Julian Harber reflects on the lesser-known Edward as teacher and political activist.

In the final instalment of our Own This! roundtable, Trebor Scholz responds to the previous contributions and lays out his vision for platform cooperativism going forward.

Judith Butler was planning to speak at a Palestine solidarity event in Paris in December until the city's mayor unilaterally cancelled it. Here, Butler describes the chain of events leading up to the cancellation and affirms the necessity of resisting political censorship around Palestine.

In part 4 of our Own This! roundtable, David O'Connell explores the relationship between trade unions and workers' cooperatives.

Part 3 of our Own This! roundtable looks at the United Taxi Cooperative, a worker-governed to provide affordable dispatch services while generating new lines of business that honor drivers’ craft and relationships to San Diego communities.

A look ahead: with books from Legacy Russell, Frederic Jameson, and Robin Blackburn.

In Part 2 of our Own This! roundtable, James Muldoon reflects on the challenges of building a cooperative society through the example of the nineteenth-century US labor association, the Knights of Labor.

Introducing Verso Books' roundtable on Trebor Scholz's book, Own This!

In Part 1 of our roundtable on Trebor Scholz's book Own This! Salonie Muralidhara reflects on the challenges and rewards of scaling cooperative through her work with the Gujarat State's Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA).