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Giving voice to inner screams

For the late Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène, cinema was always an opportunity for dialogue with the audience. In this essay, Henry Roberts explores the aesthetics and political power of Sembène's cinematic oeuvre.
Lenin looks back in anger

In this excerpt from Lenin’s Childhood, Isaac Deutscher creates a scene from the Twentieth CPSU Congress, 1956, where an imagined Lenin reflects on what Leninism has become.
Lenin: Geared to One Purpose

In Not By Politics Alone, Tamara Deutscher describes a Lenin whose whole being was geared to one purpose, the purpose of the revolution.
Realizing Africa

"Through his filmmaking and overall cinematic framework, Sembène realized the dream of a unified and borderless Africa which its political leaders have yet to produce." Matene Toure revisits Ousmane Sembène's 1988 film Camp de Thiaroye, highlighting his life's ambition of inspiring revolutionary action through film.
Antonio Negri on Lenin's The State and Revolution

Antonio Negri argues that The State and Revolution by Lenin is the best introduction to Marxism as it places bodies within the daily revolutionary struggle.
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.