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Putin, Prigozhin, and the coup

The immediate crisis for Vladimir Putin’s Russian regime is over. A deal was reached with the Wagner coup leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin. He turned his Moscow-bound troop convoy around, late on Saturday 24 June, and sent his fighters back towards their bases in southern Russia and occupied Ukraine. As we go to press on 27 June, there are hints the deal may not hold, but we don’t know.

The Wagner troops had killed a dozen Russian helicopter crew, shot down after attacking the Wagner insurgency.

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US bosses pursue child labour

The right and far-right in the US are emboldened and on the attack. Having already flooded state legislatures this year with hundreds of bills aiming to smash the rights of LGBTQ+ people, many of which explicitly target the rights of LGBTQ+ youth, the conservative right are likewise aiming for an unprecedented expansion of child labour. As the cost of living spirals, the right are waging amongst the most flagrantly abusive forms of class warfare; rolling back weak laws at the state and federal level to force kids from poor families into work.

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The politics of emotional life

Alva Gotby’s They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life is the latest contribution to a growing series of Verso books on the topic of Social Reproduction Theory, in which Gotby explores the concept of emotional reproduction. She defines this as, on the one hand, the work of generating certain feelings in those around us, and, on the other, the work of maintaining the social norms that are both “cause and effect” of emotional labour as we know it.

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