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Going Awry: Žižek’s Misfires in Immigration and Radical Politics

Raphael F. Alvarenga contends that Žižek’s post-2015 approach to migration, while retaining the language of radical politics, embraces a managerial logic of border control that blunts the universalist and emancipatory thrust of his earlier theory.

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On the Zionist Para-State

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Statement on the War in Iran

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Building Epistemic Capacity: A Review of "Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry"

Sam Dee reviews Notes Towards a Digital Workers' Inquiry by the Capacitor Collective, published by Common Notions Press.

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Process and Totality: A Review of David McNally's 'Slavery and Capitalism'

David McNally's Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History offers a necessary corrective to the New History of Capitalism (NHC) group by embracing Marxism's revolutionary commitments, argues Julian Assele.

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Uneven and Confused Development in Left Art Criticism: A Review of Adam Turl's 'Gothic Capitalism'

Adam Turl's recent work on art, Gothic Capitalism: Art Evicted From Heaven & Earth, substitutes aesthetic choices for concrete advice on cultural organizing, argues Patricia Manos.

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Letter: We Need Organization, Not Idols

March 17, 2026

“We are standing in the midst of an utterly absurd theater. The crimes of Jeffrey Epstein need no further elaboration. The Right is seizing the high ground, but …”

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Letter: Flogging a Dead Strawman

March 8, 2026

“Nicolas Villarreal continues to accuse me of publishing only “pure empirical analysis”; and that I “ these facts into theories so as to construct narratives familiar with”, which …”

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Letter: Questions for Marxist Unity Group

March 5, 2026

“I am writing from the perspective of a DSA member who is an outsider to Marxist Unity Group (MUG) —although I know a few members—and curious about its …”

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