Toward a People’s History of the University of Maryland: AFSCME Local 1072
Emily Fox recounts the history of AFSCME Local 1072, a militant union of campus staff at the University of Maryland organized during a period often …
Articles
Eco-Leninism: A Much Needed Corrective
Martin Rose argues that Lenin’s classic political strategy offers an alternative to the economism which plagues both sides of the debate around ‘degrowth.’ Within the …
Escaping America’s Constitutional Bind: A Review of Aziz Rana’s “The Constitutional Bind”
Luke Pickrell reviews Aziz Rana’s recent book, “The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them.” Introduction At a private gathering last …
Galeano in Mogadishu: Sheep and the Emergent Geography of Gulf Capitalisms
Adapting radical Latin American theories of economic geography, Jaime Litvak argues that a regionally-centered, extractive economic subsystem links the Arab Gulf and northeast Africa. Introduction …
Against Frum on Woodrow Wilson
Hank Kennedy sets the record straight on Woodrow Wilson’s legacy – one of service to the imperialist capitalist class abroad and brutal and racist repression …
The Monsters We Become: On “How to Read Like a Parasite”
Conrad Hamilton offers his review of Daniel Tutt’s recent book How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche, an inquiry …
Nasserism and the Egyptian Revolution of 1952
Rudy, Andrew and Eric sit down to discuss Egypt from its origins as an independent polity under Mehmed Ali up to the Sadat years, with …
Letter: To Communists and Communist Organizations
Communists in Manchester will be standing in the general election, whenever it is called. We will be standing in Manchester Central on a communist manifesto …
Labor Notes and Labor’s Next Year
Leland Olds responds to the recent Labor Notes conference with an analysis of the current state of U.S. labor organizing and proposes a syncretic strategy …
Left-Communism, Palestine, and National Liberation
RJ Park critiques the supposed “internationalism” of adherents of the left-communist tendency that reject support for Palestinian national liberation. By and large, Marxists around the …
The Modern Left and the New Right-Wing Radicalism
While right-wing radicalism has grown and taken on new forms, the left today remains stuck in illusions of liberal capitalism as the end of history. …
What’s the Problem with Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-Criticism?
The modern-day left continues to repeat fairy tales that Lenin’s early philosophical work is vulgar, undialectical and abandoned by its author in later years. None …
Slavoj Žižek and the Politics of Abstract Negativity
Yanis Iqbal breaks down Slavoj Žižek’s philosophical narrative of abstract negativity, revealing it to be politically disabling and epistemologically reductive. Almandrade, The value and the …
Towards a Marxist Stance on Electoralism
Assessing the foundational Marxist canon and the contemporary US landscape, Bluebird argues for strategic participation in Bourgeois elections to advance a revolutionary agenda and the …