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The State Is Declared: The Story of the Iraqi Insurgency (October-December 2006)

Continuing a serialized account of the Iraqi insurgency, Rob Ashlar gives an in-depth analysis of the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq, fractures in the Sahawat movement, and the choices faced by Sunni Iraqis trapped between sectarian depravity and the Coaltion collaboration. Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.

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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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Letter: The Blockade Is Real. The Question of Power Remains.

June 17, 2026

“Albert Gil has written the rare defense of Cuba that argues rather than asserts, and his letter deserves a reply in kind. He is right about the thing …”

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Letter: Stakes of the Twenty-First Century

June 15, 2026

“Nicholas Villareal’s comments on the economics of degrowth are a valuable contribution to the discourse on eco-socialism. None of his major points—that labor cost is separate from material …”

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Letter: "I'm a Member"

June 13, 2026

“I’m a memberso persuade me Change my mind! Change my mind!Not in the way of Stephen Crowded But through roberts rules of order style debate, yo. Don’t ask …”

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