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Sino-Israeli Paradiplomacy

Documenting the history of backchannel diplomacy, secretive weapons transfers, and academic lobbying behind Sino-Israeli relations post-1989, Dezhang Yuan argues that the Gaza genocide and New Cold War offer a crucial opening to reshape Chinese policy around Zionism.

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A Thesis on the History of the 21st Century: Technocracy, AI, and the End of the World

Reviewing a trio of books by a sextet of ruling-class ideologues, Mathias Fuelling finds an ambient anxiety hanging over a perceived crisis in American capitalism, with visions of bolstering a Silicon Valley-led technocracy fueled by AI investment reflecting American fears over the dawn of a "Chinese Century."

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We sit down to discuss Lars Lih's new book What was Bolshevism?

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Diagnosing the Populist Impasse: On Varn and Tutt’s "The People are Not One"

Reviewing C. Derick Varn and Daniel Tutt’s new pamphlet, The People are Not One, Nicolas D Villarreal finds a sharp contribution to a debate that may very well shape the future of socialism in our lifetime.

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Abolish Blue Power

Reviewing Stuart Schrader's Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, Julian Assele finds a forceful case for why police abolition is not a utopian moral demand but a political necessity emergent from decades of class struggle.

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Letter: Un-Comradely Love at Jacobin Magazine

July 11, 2026

“In an article titled Romantic Love and Family Are Not the Enemy, which involved a discussion between Jacobin editor Meagan Day and Swedish gender studies academic Evalina Johansson …”

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Letter: China and Marxist State Theory

July 9, 2026

“In my view, the recent article Toward a Marxist State Theory of the Socialist Market Economy, by Theryn Arnold, is not a Marxist analysis of the political-economic situation …”

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Letter: Smash the Platner Left

July 7, 2026

““You’re telling me a guy who joined Blackwater in 2018 did not behave well in his personal life?”Whilst we Brits across the Atlantic have plenty of our own …”

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