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The Midterms, the Speaker Vote, and the 2028 Trap

The Democrats are heading for a good night on November 3, and DSA is about to send more members to Congress than ever before. But between January's Speaker vote and the fight over a 2028 endorsement, Joseph Perez argues the American socialist movement has to answer a question it has avoided for a decade: who do its representatives actually answer to?

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A Forgotten Sinai Conflict

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The Kahane Connection: A Review of "Who Killed Alex Odeh?"

In a review of Jason Osder and William Lafi Youmans 2026 documentary Who Killed Alex Odeh, Tovi Rose traces how Meir Kahane's militant Jewish supremacist ideology became mainstream in Israel.

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We trace the multi-faceted history of the Kurdish movement across the Middle East.

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Against Their Interests? Understanding the Right-Wing Poor

Marcela Gottschald reviews Brazilian sociologist Jessé Souza’s O pobre de direita (The Poor on the Right), an inquiry into the social basis of support for right-wing politics among poor whites and Black evangelicals in Brazil.

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Points of Arrival

Julian Assele reviews Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver, edited by Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter. While Cleaver rightly seeks to recenter working-class agency and grapple with the changing shape of class struggle, his incomplete application of the class …

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Letter: Mystifying Marx in the Age of AI

October 29, 2026

“As capital pours billions into artificial intelligence to displace human labor, the relevance of Marx’s value theory has never been greater. Marx demonstrated that surplus value derives exclusively …”

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Letter: Against PMC Denialism

October 27, 2026

“I would like to thank Cosmonaut Magazine for publishing two recent articles that have better than anyone else exposed the bankruptcy of the modern US left and its …”

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Letter: Uncertainty Isn’t Good Enough

October 23, 2026

“Thanks to Anthony P. Teso for responding to my recent letter. As I wrote, the strategic demand for democracy was crucial to classical Marxism and has been overlooked …”

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