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Rossana Rossanda, one of Il Manifesto’s founding editors, passed away on Sunday at the age of 96. The following extract from her memoir, La Ragazza del Secolo Scorso, published by Verso as The Comrade from Milan, appeared in New Left Review in 2008, prefaced by a short introduction to her life and work.

Ruling the Void offers an authoritative and chilling assessment of the prospects for popular political representation today. In the long-established democracies of Western Europe, electoral turnouts are in decline, membership is shrinking in the major parties, and those who remain loyal partisans are sapped of enthusiasm. Peter Mair’s classic book weighs the impact of these changes, which together show that, after a century of democratic aspiration, electorates are deserting the political arena.

Aranyo Aarjan writes about the situation in West Bengal following Cyclone Amphan

Adam Shatz's classic profile of Mike Davis from 1997. Shatz touches on the writing and success of City of Quartz, Davis's time working at New Left Review, and his general refusal to uncritically follow the postmodern trends of class-skeptical left intellectual life into the late 20th century.