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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.
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.
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.
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.