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What's So Special: Marxism and the US-Israel Relationship

Responding to common theories raised in debates about the U.S.-Israel relationship, Elias Shammas attempts to reframe the discussion away from questions of rational imperial action, instead asking "what makes the special relationship so special?"

Elias Shammas, April 8, 2026

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Iran at War: Interview with Yassamine Mather

Yassamine Mather, Lydia Apolinar, April 1, 2026

Harbinger of Collapse: No Country for Old Men, Twenty Years Older

Cliff Connolly, March 25, 2026

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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 racialized surplus labor.

Julian Assele, March 27, 2026

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Communism = Soviets + Electrification: The Electric Grid

April 9, 2026

We join RK to discuss several facets of the electric grid.

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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.