is Professor of Cultural and Political Theory at the University of East London, where he has been based for many years. He has been involved with both mainstream party politics and extra-parliamentary activism throughout his adult life, having been an active participant in the social forum movement of the early 2000s, a member of the founding national committee of Momentum (the controversial organization established to support Corbyn’s leadership of Labour), and being a current elected member of the management committee of Compass, a pluralist left-wing think tank and lobby group. His most recent publications include the translation of Maurizio Lazzarato’s Experimental Politics and the book Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism (Pluto, 2014) and Twenty-First-Century Socialism (Polity, 2020).