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The Rise and Fall of Participatory Management in the People's Republic of China, Part 1: The Consolidation of the Party-State

In part one of a three-part serialized series examining the systemic limitations and historic potentials of democratic workplace management in the People's Republic of China, Mark Reid details the rise of Staff-and-Workers’ Congresses, the transition from a mixed to planned economy, and the experimentation of the Great Leap Forward era.

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The Poverty of Terminology

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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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We rejoin Charlie and Bryce for a recap on what has transpired since the Your Party founding conference

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Capital’s Musk: A Review of Slobodian and Tarnoff’s “Muskism”

Reviewing Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Julian Assele foregrounds class antagonism and re-situates Muskism as a class strategy to re-discipline globally mobile and fragmented labor, whose efforts only further intensify the imperial and capitalist crisis.

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The Catechism for American Power

Abel Bisrat finds more religious thinking than reasonable argumentation in Shadi Hamid's The Case for American Power.

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Letters: The Theses That Eat Themselves

June 9, 2026

“Withers is more honest than most DSA strategy documents, but this creates a problem. He lists programmatic unity, non-reformist reforms, the rank-and-file strategy, red unions, Panther-model mutual aid, …”

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Letter: Socialist Integrity and the Pigs

June 5, 2026

““Here lies the heart of the authoritarian dimension of neoliberal politics: the structure of the state may vary, the political personnel and its behaviour too, what is essential …”

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Letter: Anti-AI Manifesto

June 3, 2026

“About a month ago, I finished writing a work titled “The Anti-AI Manifesto.”I have published it in two versions, a complete version that is some sixteen thousand words …”

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