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How NYC Won the Rent Freeze: Organizing Before, Through, and Against a Socialist Executive

Sam Alquila gives an organizer's perspective on how NYC won its historic rent freeze, arguing that the tenant movement's independence was crucial to navigating the zigs and zags of organizing in a complex ecosystem of nonprofits, grassroots organizations, and NYC-DSA.

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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: From "Vibe Coding" to "Auf Einmal"

November 5, 2026

“Nicolas D. Villarreal’s "Marxism in the Age of AI" rightly brings our attention back to Marx’s 1857–1858 Grundrisse ("Fragment on Machines"), where fixed capital absorbs the "general intellect" …”

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Letter: When "Social Relation" Loses its Meaning

November 3, 2026

“Peter Ross has responded to my critique of his value theory work, and he has largely doubled down on his original points. He insists that it is only …”

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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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