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In the latest issue: Susan Watkins on Ukraine, Göran Therborn on the global left, Frigga Haug on learning and more!

On Sunday 30th October Lula, the leader of the Brazilian Workers' Party, marked a remarkable political comeback, winning a third term as Brazilian president over the right-wing incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro. But as Oliver Basciano writes, the Brazil Lula will now lead is a very different one from that of his first term in 2003, with fresh challenges ahead for the Brazilian left.

In this interview, the great historian Carlo Ginzburg reflects on Italy's current right-wing insurgency and the role history can play in helping us ask questions about the world we live in.

For Jacques Rancière, the future of anti-capitalist resistance lies in the proliferation and expansion of autonomous democratic movements like the gilets jaunes in France, Occupy Wall Street in the US, and the indignados in Madrid. In this interview, he explains why only authentically egalitarian movements can transform today's society.

A guide to all our new titles coming out in November!

With the victory of Lula in Brazil, we give you 12 books for both understanding Brazil and Latin American, as well as books to continue the struggle elsewhere.

Invite these women in, and let their voices pull on you: we pick our favourite witchy quotes from The Verso Book of Feminism.

What did it mean to be a Marxist philosopher in the twentieth century? In this 1963 essay, Henri Lefebvre reflects on his life-long commitment to Marxist philosophy and all of the contradictions therein.

Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell and Joreen's feminist manifestos.

The inimitable Mike Davis passed away this week, leaving behind a lifetime of political writing that will help socialists sharpen our analysis for generations to come. In this remarkable short essay, Davis describes his own political development through encounters with two of the intellectual giants of his youth, Herbert Marcuse and Isaac Deutscher. 

Herbert Marcuse's ideas animated young people's protests in 1968, but today he's rarely discussed. Simon Blin argues that it's time to return to Marcuse's radical ideas in order to think anew about the struggles we face today.