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Long Read: Generation Left Rejected History. Does It Have a Future?

by Michael Chessum

From Occupy Wall Street to Millbank, the generation that awoke in 2010 rejected left history, writes Michael Chessum. Is this why it's struggled to form a coherent political tradition?

NovaraFM: History, Humanity, Heresy

Archaeologist David Wengrow upends everything we thought we knew about social evolution in a new book written with David Graeber.

Long Read: Forget ‘Liberté’ – 17th-Century Indigenous Americans Knew a Lot More About Freedom Than Their French Colonisers

by David Graeber and David Wengrow

On issues like personal freedom, gender equality, sexual mores and popular sovereignty, indigenous American attitudes were far more progressive than 17th-century European ones - and far more like our own, write David Wengrow and the late David Graeber.

Opinion: David Graeber’s Archive Should Continue to Uphold the Ideas He Championed in Life

by Nika Dubrovsky

When he died, David Graeber left behind an enormous archive. His wife, Nika Dubrovsky, considers how to deal with it in a way that continues the collaborative spirit he enacted and upheld throughout his life.

Analysis: For David Graeber, Theory and Action Were Inseparable

by Thomas Swann

David Graeber lived his political values - and through everyday acts of communism, he argued, many of us do too.

Opinion: David Graeber’s Real Contribution to Occupy Wall Street Wasn’t a Phrase – It Was a Process

by Marisa Holmes

Far more significant than his co-creation of the phrase "We are the 99%", David Graeber gave Occupy Wall Street the very democratic values that underpinned it.

Analysis: David Graeber Reminded Us of the Political Value of Anthropology

by Alpa Shah

David Graeber's love of anthropology was intimately tied to his desire to build an anti-capitalist politics; it makes us think beyond the political limits of our own societies to realise that there are other, better ways of doing things.

Analysis: Anarchism Shaped David Graeber. Then He Shaped Anarchism

by Shane Little

Having first discovered the ideology as a teenager, David Graeber used his experiences as an activist and an anthropologist to develop his own theory of anarchism, one that is rooted in practice and the belief that we can remake the world at any given moment.

Opinion: Sex Work Is Not a Bullshit Job

by Marin Scarlett

When so many jobs exist solely to rationalise capitalism – as the late David Graeber’s thesis argues – sex workers respond to a real demand. Simply trying to end that demand is flawed, writes Marin Scarlett in our series exploring the life and ideas of Graeber on the first anniversary of his death.

Analysis: David Graeber Was Right: A Debt Free World Is Possible

David Graeber played a vital role in the debt cancellation movement, showing everyone, from activists to policymakers, that mass debt cancellation is not only possible now, it's been happening for centuries. This is the first article in our series exploring the life and ideas of David Graeber on the first anniversary of his death.

Report: Welcome to Slacker School: Learning From the Best How to Work the Least

by Clare Hymer

Lockdown has clarified that there is more to our lives than bullshit jobs, and nothing better than living them on company time. Clare Hymer meets some of Britain's most skilled skivers.

Analysis: What Would Jesus Do? Cancel the Rent

Opinion: David Graeber Was Right to Recognise the Importance of the Kurdish Struggle

by Giran Ozcan

David Graeber was an early and committed supporter of the Kurdish freedom movement. We can remember him the way he remembered the people of Rojava who gave their lives in the fight against Isis, writes Giran Ozcan - by living out our ideas in practice and making a commitment to solidarity that goes beyond words.

Obituary: An Everyday Anarchist: David Graeber, 1961-2020

by Paul Mason

David Graeber - anthropologist, author, anarchist and friend to many - died this week in Venice aged 59. A lifelong fighter for social justice, his ultimate achievement will be in the “everyday communist society” we create, writes Paul Mason.

Obituary: The Opposite of a Cynic: David Graeber, 1961-2020

by James Butler

Novara Media would likely not exist without anthropologist and activist David Graeber, who died on Wednesday. He helped give us the confidence to start out, and the conviction that left media – and especially left media that is able to think for itself – actually matters, writes James Butler.

TyskySour: Rojava: Trump Betrays the Kurds

As Trump gives the green light for a Turkish invasion of Rojava, we ask David Graeber what hope there is left for Syrian Kurds. Plus, the latest on Extinction Rebellion’s Autumn Uprising with Aaron Bastani.