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In Defense of Sabotage: A response to George Monbiot

Peaceful civil disobedience is not working in the fight against against fossil-fueled climate change. Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline, argues that, contrary to George Monbiot's recent claims, the climate struggle requires a diversity of tactics, including property destruction.
New Left Review 140/141, out now

Aaron Benanav and Tim Barker on the US economy, Hito Steyerl on AI, Grey Anderson on NATO, a previously unpublished early text from Tom Nairn and much more…
The NUJ speaks out against the arrest of La Fabrique's Foreign Rights Manager

The National Union of Journalists has passed a motion condemning Ernest's baseless arrest in London last month.
The Cult of Churchill: Tariq Ali & Priyamvada Gopal on the Verso Podcast

On the latest episode of the Verso Podcast, Tariq Ali and Priyamvada Gopal join Eleanor Penny to discuss the life and legacy of Winston Churchill
Statement by La Fabrique authors

In honour of World Press Freedom Day, we are publishing this statement from La Fabrique's authors in solidarity with La Fabrique's rights manager, Ernest, who was outrageously arrested by UK anti-terrorism police upon his arrival in London from Paris on 17 April.
The detective as social geographer

How the private eye became key in historicizing France’s recent past in the seventies and eighties.
A change of strategy

Marx’s texts from the 1850s onwards took a different approach to his previous work: different not only in their style but also their concepts and formats, but united by their object – capitalism – grasped from different angles and viewpoints.
In his time, Benjamin Lay may have been the most radical person on the planet

Benjamin Lay was one of the first practical abolitionists, grounded in the real day-to-day struggles of enslaved peoples of African descent.
Why We Need Benjamin Lay

Benjamin Lay was a class-conscious, race-conscious, gender-conscious, environmentally conscious man with a fully integrated radical worldview; he was “intersectional” almost three centuries ago!
Faith in Liberation

Lucien Goldmann, the tearaway son of a Romanian Rabbi who would become one of the greatest Marxist sociologists of literature and culture, maintained a lifelong commitment to liberation and to particular form of socialist humanism. Here, Madoc Cairns charts his personal and intellectual development from the tumultuous years in the Romanian communist party of the 1930s to his pioneering studies of Kant and Pascal in post-war France, and the vital role he played in the development of a Marxist study of culture.
Tariq Ali on Tom Nairn

Tariq Ali on Tom Nairn (1932–2023)
What is class today?

Common Wealth’s Amelia Horgan spoke to historian Gabriel Winant about class in the twenty-first century. Gabriel Winant is the author of The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America (Harvard University Press: 2021).