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Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White that appeared in Life magazine above the headline “The Flood Leaves its Victims on the Bread Line,” February 15, 1937. Photo: Getty Images. Disasters and Social Reproduction: Crisis Response Between the State and Community, by Peer Illner. London: Pluto Press, 2020. 208 pages.  Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next), by Dean Spade. New York and London: Verso, 2020. 128 pages.  IN ONE OF photojournalist Margaret Bourke-Whi...

When we politely asked Guardian cartoonist Martin Rowson to explain the basis for a cartoon he had drawn on the Syrian conflict, toys flew to all corners of the room: [Media Lens] has succeeded in riling me. Well done. If I’m proved worng [sic] I’ll apologise. Meanwhile, fuck off & annoy someone else… No time for this anymore. Sorry. I stand convicted as a cunt. End of … Journalists with more self-restraint have worked hard to smile through gritted teeth, dismissing our arguments with ...

Brighton bomber Patrick Magee urges unionists to take ownership of united Ireland debate The aftermath of the 1984 Grand Hotel bombing in Brighton Connla Young Patrick Magee, the man behind the Brighton bomb, and Jo Berry A former IRA man who planted the bomb which almost killed Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet has appealed to unionists to "take ownership" of any future negotiations for a united Ireland. Belfast man Patrick Magee was given eight life sentenc...

  In Empires Endgame, eight anti-racist scholars make a powerful intervention in debates around racial capitalism and political crisis in Britain. While the hostile environment policy and Brexit referendum have thrown the centrality of race into sharp relief, discussions of racism have too often focused on individual behaviours and discrimination. Foregrounding instead the wider political and economic context, the authors trace the ways in which the legacies of empire have been reshaped by gl...

Against the Global Police State The Global Police State (Pluto Press, 2020) The storming of the United States Capitol on January 6 at the behest of then-President Trump, and with the tacit and active support of certain sectors of the state apparatus, has understandably reignited fears over the growth of a neo-fascist movement. And yet, the shambolic nature of the invasion, which saw adherents of the conspiratorial Q’Anon cult largely outnumber the organized far-right militias with combat trai...

by Jeff Halper (Pluto Press, £14.99) THE IDEA of a single democratic state as a political solution for Palestine is nothing new. It was the policy of the Palestinian liberation movement, enshrined in the PLO Charter and only abandoned by the PLO in 1988 in favour of the two-state solution. In this book Jeff Halper, a founder member of the recently established  One Democratic State campaign, argues that Israel never intended the two-state solution to be a solution at all — instead, it was em...

When Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition first appeared in 1983, it was far from an instant classic. Aside from a couple of extended reviews that focused on Robinson’s critique of Marxism, most academic mentions were cursory, hardly bothering with the more challenging aspects of his argument. Coming as it did on the heels of Black Power–era debates over whether Marxism was appropriate for Black struggle, movement intellectuals did engage and debate ...

Anat Matar Anat Matar is a senior lecturer at the Department of Philosophy in Tel Aviv University. She is a member of the “Solidarity with Palestinian Academia and the Struggle Against the Occupation” team at Academia for Equality. She is co-editor (with Adv. Abeer Baker), of Threat: Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israel, London: Pluto Press, 2011. Recent Articles

The JJ Bola Emerging Writers Prize comes with £1,000 and a contract at the Pontas Agency, and is geared to writers from ‘Black, ethnic minority, LGBTQ+, and working-class backgrounds.’ A delivery cyclist rides by Barcelona’s Basílica de la Sagrada Família, April 9. Image – iStockphoto: Manel Subirats Submission Deadline: March 15 The Pontas Literary and Film Agency in Spain will have been in business for 29 years in May, and in a new announcement provided to Publishing Perspectives,...

Modern Diplomacy Published 2 months ago Earlier reports have mentioned Iran’s nuclear scientist Mohsin Fakhrizadeh’s assassination in several ways, but now Iranian officials say he was murdered with the help of a remotely operated machine gun in the middle of the road. has gone. However, Iran still maintains its stand that Israel is behind his murder. He was murdered on 27 November. Iran’s reasoning behind this is very simple that Israel is one of the few countries which has enough reaso...