On Communist Work in the Working Class Movement
In a debate on labor strategy, Kat and Chantelle argue for the merger of political, economic, and theoretical struggles; for boring from within the reactionary …
Letter: Break Now, or Forever Hold Your Peace
In Thursday’s debate, the true condition of President Biden’s mental state was revealed to the public in the most embarrassing fashion imaginable. To die-hard establishment …
A Review of “Ron Carey and the Teamsters”
Edgar Esquivel catalogues the rise, fall, and redemption of Ron Carey and his work with the Teamsters. At a time when the International Brotherhood …
Letter: The Economics of Feasible Degrowth
In the degrowth debate there are a number of misconceptions and fallacies that I believe need to be cleared up. Recently, I was reading Comrade …
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 …
Letter: Subject-less Marxism, A Reply to Kolya Ludwig
According to Kolya Ludwig’s letter “Retreating from the Subject,” my critique of Slavoj Žižek dispenses with his “political conclusions without addressing the deeper problem of …
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 …
The New Thing: Jazz Music in the Cold War, 1950-1970 with Christian Noakes
Jackson and Donald are joined by Christian Noakes author of Do It Yourself, Brother: Cultural Autonomy and the New Thing to discuss jazz music and …
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 …
Letter: Retreating from the Subject, A Reply to Yanis Iqbal
Yanis Iqbal’s recent critique of Slavoj Žižek’s theoretical and political project illuminates two matters of concern: The political content that emerges from Žižek’s psychoanalysis and …
Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Working-Class Culture and Red Vienna with Gabriel Kuhn
We join Gabriel Kuhn, author of books like Soccer vs. the State and Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Forging a militant working-class culture for a discussion on …
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 …