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Murray Edmond's performance writing on Auckland's monuments. What gets commissioned, created and installed in the name of the public? We have released this piece early in response to public disputes about monuments.

An introduction to this special issue of Counterfutures.

Universal state housing as a practical solution to Aotearoa New Zealand’s trenchant housing crisis. Affordable, secure, and decommodified housing for all.

A vision for a 21st-century cooperative-housing model for Aotearoa New Zealand. Cooperative housing as a third way between ownership and renting.

Reflections on best practice for community engagement in urban-redevelopment projects. Empowering communities through effective, meaningful, and culturally relevant engagement processes.

An account of the Porirua regeneration project from Housing Action Porirua. Community resistance to state-led gentrification.

An argument for urban-planning reform and spatial justice. Implementing the kāinga model as practical decolonisation.

Reflections on effective community-engagement practices in Porirua. To provide suitable housing and neighbourhoods for Pasifika, architects and urban planners must expand their cultural kete.

Interviewed by Dylan Taylor, Camia Young and Thomas Nash imagine a new era of regenerative urban design.

Review of Ian Smith, Pākehā Settlements in a Māori World. The archaeology of early colonial settlements in Aotearoa told in five phases.

Review of Raquel Rolnik, Urban Warfare. A global panorama of housing policy in the era of footloose financial capital.

Review of Samuel Stein, Capital City. A critical account of the age of real-estate capital and the transformation of the city.

Tim Corballis on what optimisms are possible at the heart of the Covid-19 pandemic and the associated state responses. Can it lead us to lastingly question what is essential?

Warwick Tie reflects on his face mask, and his reluctance to wear it.

Murdoch Stephens on New Zealanders returning home in Covid-19 times.

A history of primitive accumulation and the New Zealand dairy industry. The fifth National government and the enclosure and degradation of freshwater commons as the latest chapter in this long history.

Mining the late work of Marx for its intersections with te ao Māori. Whakapapa as a central concept in the development of a Māori Marx.

Extending Erik Olin Wright’s socialist compass to make a case for Māori socialism — a socialist economy in which tino rangatiratanga is formative.

Lacan, Deleuze and Guattari, and the role of femininity in the class struggle. Everyday sartorial interventions as a tactical reification of femininity.

How might emotional states be transposed to the political sphere? A psycho-political investigation of hate and its value for Left politics.

Denise Blake and Amanda Thomas interview Dame Catherine Healy about the history of the New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective.

Deliberative democracy as a cure for the ills of neoliberalism in a settler-colonial state?
Max Rashbrooke responds to David Parker's review here.

A detailed account of the erosion of the liberal centre and the spread of populism across the United States, United Kingdom, and continental Europe.

A case for the enduring relevance of Shulamith Firestone.

A history of state censorship, the New Zealand home front, and undelivered mail during the Great War.