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#6: Evidence of Things
Not Seen

Featuring:
Poetry by Kay Gabriel
Photography by Luc Delahaye
Art by Bahar Behbahani
Fiction by Katie Kane and David Naimon

Contents:
Richard Seymour: ‘Caedmon’s Dream: On the Politics of Style’
Robert Knox: ‘Against Law-sterity’
Esther Leslie: ‘Men of Doubt: Fortini, Benjamin, Brecht’
Barnaby Raine: ‘Jewophobia’
China Miéville: ‘Silence in Debris: Towards an Apophatic Marxism’
Asad Haider: ‘Eight Theses on Identity’
Alex Alvarez Taylor: ‘The Left and Louis-Ferdinand Céline’
Sivamohan Valluvan and Malcolm James: ‘Left Problems, Nationalism and the Crisis’
Daniel Hartley: ‘The Person, Historical Time and the Universalisation of Capital’
Yvan Najiels: ‘The Demise of the International Proletariat of France: Talbot as Political Turning Point’
Parastou Saberi: ‘Urban Geopolitics and ‘The Immigrant’: Lessons from Toronto’
Joe Hayns and Selim Nadi: Interview with Selim Nadi of the Parti des Indigènes de la République

#5: Contractions

Sølvi Goard on transfeminism
China Miéville on Presidentialness
Sarah Grey on salvaging languages
Andrea Gibbons on the Grenfell fire
Valerio Starita on the new French movements
Harrison Fluss & Landon Frim on the alt-right
Sam Kriss on post-truth politics
Jordy Cummings on Trump and the Deep State
Pearl Ahrens on the ZAD
Richard Seymour on Marxism as sarcasm
Maïa Pal on migrant subjectivity and Brexit
Owen Holland on the commune in fin de siecle poetry
An extract from Enzo Traverso’s Left Wing Melancholia, on representations of revolution in film.

Plus, exclusive to the print edition: an outstanding piece of long-form fiction, ‘Available Light’, by Max Schaefer, poetry from Caitlín Doherty and Ed Luker, and an art essay by Thomas Dylan Eaton.

#4: Order Prevails in Washington

Perspectives 4: Order Prevails in Washington by the Editors
Saturn Devours His Young: President Trump by Jamie Allinson, China Miéville, Richard Seymour & Rosie Warren
The Walls of the Tank: On Palestinian Resistance by Andreas Malm
Extract from ‘Clickaway’ by Verity Spott
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Celebrity Apprentice: Notes on the US Election by Benjamin Kunkel
Civilisation vs Solidarity: Louise Michel and the Kanak by Carolyn J. Eichner
Notes on Walls by China Miéville
Annonay part 2 by Caitlín Doherty 
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Conduit by Rupa DasGupta
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Disaster Islamism by Jamie Allinson
Trump and the Present Crisis by Nikhil Pal Singh
An Angle on Management Cruelty by Verity Spott
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Class and Brexit: Or, Why We Should Stop Worrying 
About the Working Class and Focus on Capitalismby Kyle Geraghty
Serf ‘n’ Terf: Notes on Some Bad Materialisms by Sophie Lewis
None Shall Pass: Trans and the Rewriting of the Body by Richard Seymour
Ruins of a Future Empire by Joseph Tomaras
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#3: Or What’s a Hell For?

Perspectives 3: Or What’s a Hell For? by the Editors
Neither Westminster Nor Brussels by the Editors
Technically Female: Women, Machines, and Hyperemployment by Helen Hester
The Realism of Audacity: Rethinking Revolutionary Strategy Today by Panagiotis Sotiris
Corbyn Blimey: Labour and the Present Crisis by John Merrick
The Political Is Political: In Conversation With Yasmin Nair by Rosie Warren
White Overseers of the World by Zach Sell
Setsuden by Terese Svoboda
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Parasite Gods by Scrap Princess
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Year V by Hannah Elsisi
From Choice to Polarity: Politics of, and, and in Art by China Miéville
Extract from From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Annonay part 1 by Caitlín Doherty
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The New Swedish Fascism: An Introduction by Shabane Barot
About Two Worlds by David Mabb
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Red Summer 1919 by Teresa Svoboda
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Finance, Economics and Politics by Tony Norfield
The Abasement of Trauma by Jen Izaakson
The Medium by Bethany Fine
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BENGHAZI by Sam Kriss

#2: Awaiting the Furies

Perspectives 2: Awaiting the Furies by the Editors
Messiah by Rafeef Ziadah
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Anthropochory by Michelle Farran
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On Social Sadism by China Miéville
Salvaging Situationism: Race and Space by Andrea Gibbons
Trans/War Boy/Gender: The Primitive Accumulation of T by Jordy Rosenberg
Some Final Words on Pessimism by Rosie Warren
FRAUEN-WERK-STADT part 2 by Caitlín Doherty
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Hedge Funds, Hype and Hindu Fascism: Modi Visits His Mother Country by Kalpana Wilson
The Ljubljana School of Radicalism by Richard Seymour
from ‘Mnemosyne’, ‘Grassland’, and ‘Splash Page’ by Joan Banach
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Don’t Share by Rafeef Ziadah
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Is an Injury to One an Injury to All? Some Critical Thoughts on Trade-Union Internationalism Today by Katy Fox-Hodess
12 Theses on Astrology by Sam Kriss
Doykayt: Yiddishland for All by Sai Englert
Extract from Revolutionary Yiddishland by Alain Brossat & Sylvia Klingberg
Chorus of the Deported by Franco Fortini
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The Person Who Was Followed Around By Men in Pig Masks: A Play in One Act by Nick Mamatas

#1: Amid this Stony Rubbish

Perspectives 1: Amid This Stony Rubbish by the Editors
Don’t Mourn, Accelerate by Jamie Allinson
Marxism for Whores by Magpie Corvid
Communism Without Guarantees: On Franco Fortini by Alberto Toscano
Marxism by Franco Fortini
Bring Back Fanon by Franco Fortini
To Be Young in a Time of Crisis by Kevin Ovenden
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From Ferguson to #BlackLivesMatter by Trish Kahle
From ‘Seroxat, Smirnoff, THC’ by Laura Oldfield Ford
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Italy 1977-1993 by Franco Fortini
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Neoliberalism as the Agent of Capitalist Self-Destruction by Neil Davidson
Second Home by Caitlín Doherty
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Wish We Were Here: A Melancholy Postcard by Joana Ramiro
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Against the Anthropocene by Daniel Hartley
maiitude by Season Butler
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They’re Not Racist But: UKIP and the Crisis of Britain by Richard Seymour
Extract from ‘ANNONAY’ by Caitlín Doherty
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The Ectoplasm of Neoliberalism by Karen Mirza
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Re-asking the Housing Question by Mary Robertson
They Know It, Muammar by Kunle Wizeman Ajayi
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The Limits of Utopia by China Miéville
Building a Sex Workers’ Trade Union: Challenges and Perspectives by Morgane Merteuil
Wake Sankara, Burkina Is Red Again by Kunle Wizeman Ajayi 
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Dancing on the Grave: Salvage, The Walking Dead and the End of Days by Nicholas Beuret & Gareth Brown
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow: Indian Fascism Now by Pablo Mukherjee
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Milton Friedman: An Obituary by Mark Bould
Complicity by Franco Fortini 
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