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Five Book Plan: Apartheid PR, boycotts and backlash
Hil Aked picks five books on the propaganda of apartheid states, the social movements boycotting them in response to their racially discriminatory policies, and the repressive state-led backlashes these movements face. -
Cruising for a bruising? Critiquing the British Zionist movement (while trans)
An essay from Hil Aked, author of Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity.
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Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity
Hil Aked discusses taboo, terminology, and the racial politics of Israel/Palestine as it pertains to discussion of the ‘Israel lobby’.
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JOINT PRESS UPDATE by Éditions La Fabrique (Paris) and Verso Books (London)
La Fabrique's foreign rights manager Ernest has been released on bail, but charges unknown and his property remains with police. Our colleague has been summoned to London in four weeks’ time by the British anti-terrorist unit. -
The Alternative in Shreds
Is there still time – or, indeed, is it already time – to revisit communism?
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The Ukrainian ‘Gold Rush’
“The imperative of the US military-industrial complex is not to prepare for war, but to perpetuate and amplify the flow of public money in its direction.”
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JOINT PRESS RELEASE by Éditions La Fabrique (Paris) and Verso Books (London)
Demonstration called in London to protest the treatment of Ernest, foreign rights manager for the French publisher Editions La Fabrique and Alain Damasio (Editions La Volte) by British police.
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A wise government should beware of scorning social dialogue
The legal scholar Alain Supiot, in an article for Le Monde, warns that in claiming the legitimacy of the ballot box against the street, the government’s strategy in the conflict over pension reform is deceitful. The collective action of workers, constitutive of social citizenship, is complementary to democratic life and essential to it. -
100 Years of the Institute for Social Research
An interview with director of the Institute for Social Research, Stephan Lessenich, about the tradition and future of a critical theory of society.
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Sowing Seeds of Change, Empire be Damned
Frantz Fanon believed in the power and potential peasants have to change the world. 60 years after the English release of his ground-breaking text The Wretched of the Earth––and to mark this year’s International Day of Peasant Struggle––Levi Gahman and Johannah-Rae Reyes offer a three-part commentary on why we should too.
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From Churches to Lifehouses
Adam Greenfield, author of Radical Technologies, makes a radical proposition of what to do with the thousands of empty churches in the UK and US. Lifehouses can become the centre of a radical reimagining of what makes a community, and where it comes together.
