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Making a Felt Rug in Kyrgyzstan
Owen Schalk, July 25, 2025
Traveling through Kyrgyzstan, Owen Schalk finds that memories of Soviet social stability loom large for an aging population confronting an uncertain capitalist future.
Incapable of Military Defeat: The Story of the Iraqi Insurgency (May-August 2006)
Rob Ashlar, July 18, 2025
Continuing his serialized account of the Iraqi Insurgency, Rob Ashlar covers the Summer of 2006, during which Al Qaida in Iraq (AQI) consolidated their control of western Anbar Province.
Is There Such a Thing as Turkish Marxism?
Özgür Yılmaz, July 11, 2025
Özgür Yılmaz provides a historical overview of the development of Marxism in Turkey, arguing that Turkish Marxism follows a pattern of adaptation and selective appropriation. Read Article.
One Man’s War on the Surveillance State: Mark Klein’s 'Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine... And Fighting It'
Gary Levi, July 9, 2025
Gary Levi reflects on the life and work of surveillance whistleblower Mark Klein, who passed away in March 2025. Read Article.
Between Agnosticism and Commitment: The Philosophical Stakes of the Johnston-Chiesa Debate
Yanis Iqbal, July 4, 2025
Yanis Iqbal discusses the tension between agnosticism and atheism, arguing that a critical form of the latter is a necessary ethical component of the socialist political project. Read Article.
First of the City and Last of the State: Benjamin Nichols and Ithaca's Flirtations with Socialism
J.N. Cheney, June 18, 2025
J.N. Cheney provides a retrospective of New York State's last socialist municipal administration, the Ithaca, NY mayoral tenure of DSA member Benjamin Nichols. Read Article.
Publishing Poetry Today and Tomorrow, Pt. II: Temples of What's to Come
Oleander Sārameyas the Younger, June 6, 2025
In a follow-up to their recent piece on the 2024 collapse of Small Press Distribution (SPD), Oleander Sārameyas the Younger returns to clarify the intricacies required for an alternative publishing and distribution model. Read Article.
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. Read Article.
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. Read Article.
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.