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Syria Burning by Charles Glass
“Tells us more about the reality of Syria and its future than could be gained from any other single source.” – Patrick Cockburn (from the foreword) -
The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger
"John Pilger’s work has been a beacon of light in often dark times. The realities he has brought to light have been a revelation, over and over again, and his courage and insight a constant inspiration.” – Noam Chomsky -
Crowds and Party by Jodi Dean
"In this enthralling and exhilarating book, Jodi Dean shows that, contrary to neo-anarchist cliche, the party form and class struggle are very far from being outmoded. The revival of the party has produced a surge of enthusiasm in contemporary left politics...” – Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism
Authors
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Arundhati Roy
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Benedict Anderson
“Everything Anderson wrote was boldly original, challenging assumptions by uncovering a neglected or suppressed voice.” – Guardian -
Ellen Meiksins Wood
“Meiksins Wood is a rare breed-an academic with the soul of a storyteller.” —Morning Star
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Wang Hui
Wang Hui is a Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua... -
Tsering Woeser
Tsering Woeser is a poet, essayist and blogger, and one of the Tibetan movement’s most prominent... -
Hsiao-Hung Pai
"Pai's important contribution is her unrelenting focus on the different fates that await rich and poor."—Gregor Benton
Events
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April 20, 2016
London, United Kingdom
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Guardian Live: Seymour Hersh in conversation with Paul Johnson
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April 21, 2016
London, United Kingdom
London Review Bookshop
Seymour Hersh at the London Review Bookshop
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May 19, 2016
Khalili Lecture Theatre,, SOAS
Khalili Lecture Theatre,, SOAS
The City of London and the Global Power of Finance
Blog
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Jacques Rancière and Étienne Balibar: Solidarity with the Tolbiac Occupation
Jacques Rancière and Étienne Balibar expressed their solidarity with students protesting Hollande's labour reforms. The students have occupied the Tolbiac Faculty of the Pantheon-Sorbonne University since 22nd March. Workers, Students, High-Schoolers, Intellectuals – All Together!
A convergence of struggles, and a meeting of minds as well. Such was the dual constellation shining over Wednesday night’s meeting at the Tolbiac Faculty [in Paris, occupied by students since 22 March].Two of the messages that were read out particularly caught the attention of the packed-out auditorium: those sent by Jacques Rancière and Étienne Balibar.
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“Let’s bring the catastrophe to them!”—Frédéric Lordon against French labour reforms
The French government's labour reforms will scrap the 35 hour week and strip workers of protection from arbitrary dismissal. Activists have been opposing the proposed changes since the start of March, in a series of huge protests across the nation. Frédéric Lordon, author of Willing Slaves of Capital: Spinoza and Marx on Desire, addressed yesterday's rally in the Place de la République at the largest protest so far.
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"You have built the ships for your boss. Why not build them for yourselves?"
Today, April 1st, the Chicago Teachers Union is holding a walkout and "day of action" to demand a better contract and protest the state's chronic underfunding of city schools.
"I guess the important thing to say is we're just very conscious of the fact that we're part of a broader movement that needs to figure out how to fund social services," CTU Vice President Jesse Sharkey told the Chicago Tribune, "and we're trying to ask people to see April 1 in that broader context." For more on Friday's strike, see Mark Brenner in Labor Notes, and Micah Uetricht's interview with CTU executive board member Sarah Chambers in Jacobin.
Below is an excerpt from a talk given by ISO member Leia Petty, as part of an ISO meeting held on Wednesday, March 30 at Verso Brooklyn, called Socialism: Getting from a moment to a movement, about the challenges of taking socialism from an idea to a reality. The following piece places our current struggles in historical context by discussing the revolutionary workers strike in Seattle in 1919. -
Ten Questions for Tariq Ali
The interview below was conducted via email by Selim Nadi as part of his research on theoretical and political exchanges between the French and German radical left during the era of decolonization, between 1945 and 1975.
How did you politicize yourself? In particular, what was the process that made you such a leading figure in the anti-imperialist camp (especially during the Vietnam war)?It wasn’t exactly a self-politicization. I was born in Lahore, grew up in that city, went to school and university, and didn’t move to Britain until October 1963. My class locations were contradictory: the larger family were feudal, but my parents had broken loose on many levels and become members of the Indian Communist Party and later, after Partition, its weak Pakistani offshoot. In other words, I grew up in a communist milieu, and mixed, from a very young age, with the intellectuals, poets and journalists of the left, as well as peasant and trade union leaders who were always welcome in our house. My first recorded attendance of a meeting is when I was almost 6 years old. There was a large May Day meeting in Lahore in 1949, as the Eighth Route Army and other guerrilla detachments, triumphant against the Japanese occupiers and the corrupted and brutal nationalists of the KMT, were converging on Beijing. The main chant in Lahore was “Friends, we will take the Chinese Road.”