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  • A black and white photograph showing the Petrograd Soviet in session, with crowds of delegates in a busy, semi-circular chamber taken from above

    Key words: Dual Power

    Wayne Price unpacks a concept that lies at the heart of much of Marxist and anarchist thinking on how to overthrow capitalism

  • A photograph of an abandoned car with the words 'rust in piece' painted on its side. Two mannequin torsos are resting on the car's bonnet

    1995: The year we nearly changed the world

    Inspired by the collapse of the Berlin wall and end of South African apartheid, a generation of radicals danced onto British roads and into social justice history. Thirty years on, Esther Freeman traces the movement’s energy – and its legacy

  • A group of Orthodox Jewish men at a protest, with Palestinian flags in the background, holding a placard reading 'Judaism condemns the State of "Israel" and its attrocities'.

    Key words: Zionism

    Richard Kuper examines what zionism is (and isn’t) and how it works as an explicitly settler colonial project

  • A collection of front pages of Big Flame, collaged together as part of the front cover of Big Flame Building Movements, New Politics

    Big Flame: Building Movements, New Politics – review

    Max Farrar and Kevin McDonnell’s book demonstrates how much Big Flame has to teach the modern left, writes Kevin Davey

  • Building the post-Soviet world

    From the corrupt to the inspired, Owen Hatherley charts the architecture that followed the fall of the Soviet Union

  • Tariq Ali speaking at Subversive Festival in Zagreb

    You Can’t Please All – review

    Tariq Ali’s second memoir demonstrates his depth as a radical writer and thinker, writes Sheila Rowbotham

  • An early 19th century illustration of the Luddite figurehead Ned Ludd, shown as a giant urging his followers onward.

    The Mechanic and the Luddite – review

    Jathan Sadowski’s book lays the groundwork for a more cohesive resistance against capitalist technology, writes Paula Lacey

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