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What Kind of Freedom?: On The Limitations of Academic Leadership in the Palestinian Liberation Movement
Evan Scope Crafts, May 16, 2025
Evan Scope Crafts reports on a failed campaign to reinstate two UT-Austin graduate workers fired for their pro-Palestinian activism in November 2023 and argues that the discourse of 'academic freedom,' which rhetorically undergirded the effort, was detrimental to its prospects.
Computers Are Technically Work
Sam Dee, May 7, 2025
Sam Dee responds to two recent articles by Gary Levi and Sam Heft-Luthy on tech work and tech workers, arguing that properly understanding each of these first requires deconstructing the craft ideology of the tech professions.
Why Do We Need European Left Unity?
Amanda Levi, May 2, 2025
Amanda Levi reports on the recent split in the Party of the European Left (PEL), a bloc of political parties in the EU Parliament, and the effects this has had in the affiliated European Left Youth Network (ELYN). Read Article.
Publishing Poetry Today and Tomorrow: What Are You, In Love With Your Problems?
Oleander Sārameyas the Younger, April 25, 2025
Last April, Small Press Distribution (SPD) collapsed. Without a distributor, hundreds of literary and leftist publishers scrambled to fulfill orders and reclaim their inventory. Many folded, while authors and editors mourned the loss of an industry darling. Oleander Sārameyas the Younger questions those eulogies, asking us to reconsider SPD as a failure of imagination and solidarity. Read Article.
Developing a Revolutionary Program to Unite the US Left
Steve Bloom, April 23, 2025
Responding to Marxist Unity Group's 2025 national congress and building on his recent critique of Lars Lih, Steve Bloom proposes a different way forward for programmatic unity. Read Article.
Is Left Survivalism Possible?
Özgür Yılmaz, April 18, 2025
Drawing on Walter Benjamin's radical theology, Özgür Yılmaz makes the case for a left-wing survivalism. Read Article.
The Risk of Being a Communist: A Critique of the ‘Constitutional Revolution’ Thesis and the ‘Strategy of Patience’
Kolya Ludwig, April 16, 2025
Kolya Ludwig takes issue with the strategy of the Marxist Unity Group, arguing that a successful Marxist strategy must identify an intermediate political goal and a specific political enemy. Read Article.
The Cradle of Civilization on Fire: The Story of the Iraqi Insurgency (Jan-May 2006)
Rob Ashlar, April 9, 2025
Continuing a serialized account of the Iraqi Insurgency, Rob Ashlar covers the resurgence of Al Qaida in Iraq (AQI) in early 2006 following gains made by the US-led coalition forces. Read Article.
Praxis of Alienation and Enmity: On the American Communist Party
Soldier of Love, April 4, 2025
The origins and activities of the recently-founded American Communist Party (ACP) are indicative of the parasocial nature of online activism, argues Soldier of Love. Read Article.
Putting Labor Process in Play
Sam Dee, April 2, 2025
Following up on his piece of last year, Sam Dee analyzes the ambiguous relationship between labor and play as exhibited in the 2013 border patrol simulation video game Papers, Please. Read Article.