Harbinger of Collapse: No Country for Old Men, Twenty Years Older
Cliff Connolly reflects on the events of 2005-2025 for No Country for Old Men’s twentieth anniversary, focusing on its predictive power for the decline of the US empire.
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Against Civil Society: A Review of Anton Jäger’s 'Hyperpolitics'
Julian Assele reviews Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics, finding fault in a conception of civil society that implicitly takes it as a neutral field of conflict rather than a weapon in class struggle used by capital to discipline surplus labor.
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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.
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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Letter: On the Cuban Question - Holding the Line and Reconstructing Organization
March 24, 2026
“Currently, many internal optimists within the Left maintain a positive outlook on the situation in Iran. However, regarding the actions the United States may soon take against Cuba, …”
Letter: Errors of "Zionist Para-State" framing
March 23, 2026
“Dear editors:I read with dismay your republication of Rob Ashlar's "On the Zionist Para-State." If Ashlar believes that his analytical framing of the Zionist Para-State is useful, it …”
Letter: Fool's Socialism
March 23, 2026
“My aunt and uncle were big Maddow fans from her start, and in 2017 I remember them becoming deeply concerned about Russiagate. For months we talked, them going …”