What mutations in the circulatory logic of capital and spectacle have occurred since September 11th? In their 2005 book Afflicted Powers: Capital in a New Age of War, Bay Area collective Retort argue that neoliberalism has moved from an era of austerity programmes and agreements to one of all out war – over air, land, and media. Here Anustup Basu reviews their book and traces the demise of a Kantian modernity based on ‘enfranchisement and eternal peace’ and the rise of one based on ‘weak citizenship and perpetual conflict’

With Iraq transformed into a vast Free Trade (War) Zone, how are unionised workers fighting back against the occupation’s neo-Ba’athist regime? Ewa Jasiewicz, who recently returned from eight months working with human rights groups, families, Palestinian refugees, women’s groups and trade unions in Baghdad and Basra, reports

In Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle Slavoj Zizek applies his theoretical apparatus to the war on terror once again. Mark Fisher reviews the book and finds that there are some things the US intelligence services didn't know they knew