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Two Halves of the Same Book

Drawing on the work of Ludwig Fleck, Foppe De Haan intervenes in the debate between Jibreel Kateb of Cosmonaut and P.K. Gandakin and Sarkozy of Geese Magazine regarding philosophy of science, arguing for a synthesis that can take into account the subjective and objective elements of knowledge production.

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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 composition method risks a voluntarist view of capital’s counteroffensive and leads to a flawed critique of revolutionary organization.

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Donald interviews C Derick Varn and Daniel Tutt, authors of "The People Are Not One" in the wake of their recent tour promoting their book.

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Israel's Lobby Under Review

Abel Bisrat reviews Israel's Lobby by Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick, finding a worthwhile expansion of previous scholarship for our contemporary era rather than a mere retreading of work by authors like Mearsheimer and Walt. Yet more work remains in mapping the class fractions behind Zionism and its stranglehold over …

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Garrisoning White Power

Julian Assele reviews Gautham Rao's White Power: Policing American Slavery, arguing that its analysis of how racial domination determined American policing and notions of "public order" is further strengthened by a grounding in Marxist categories of labor command and capital accumulation.

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Letter: Back to Comintern - The Struggle for International Communist Regroupment

September 17, 2026

“We are living through a revival of socialism as a political movement. The rise of a new socialist party in the United States, for all its own limits, …”

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Letter: The Problem of Unequal Exchange

September 15, 2026

“With the recent article by Pepe Gómez Merchán reopening the debates around unequal exchange in Cosmonaut, I figured now would be a good time to spit out what …”

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Letter: DSA Should Support Locking Up Fascist Criminals

September 12, 2026

“One thing I’ve found strange, as a longtime observer and recent member of the Democratic Socialists of America, is the leftist group doesn’t seem to do a lot …”

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