Category: Article
Russia in Global Competition
Against ahistorical and unscientific pseudo-explanations of Russia’s foreign policy as some consequence of “the Russian psyche,” Jase Short explains how neoliberal “reforms” in Russia have suppressed democracy domestically and driven that nation’s rise as a competitor attempting to beat US capital at its own game. What’s wrong with Russia, Short argues, is that capitalism and democracy cannot coexist there—just as they cannot coexist anywhere.
Commemorating Seventy-Five Years of Nakba
On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Nakba, Amanda Batarseh explores the works of Palestinian writers Mourid Barghouti and Radwa Ashour.
The Political Social Ontology of Astrology
Astrology has regained prominence as a resistance practice that challenges capitalist modernity. Matthew Cull and Nadia Mehdi ask: How might forms of thought inherent to astrological practice render us more, rather than less, susceptible to capitalist control?
Panem et Circenses
Beliu García Parra reports from the front lines of the public healthcare crisis in Spain.
Stand Up and Fight for, and alongside, Your Trans Siblings
In an expanded version. of their speech from Chicago’s Trans Day of Resistance, Danelle Wylder makes an antifascist call to struggle for trans liberation.
On “Being Serious About Ideas”
William Clare Roberts responds to Landon Frim’s and Harrison Fluss’s argument, printed previously in these pages, that Marxist political strategy requires theoretical grounding in dialectical monism.
Materialism and the Crisis of Marxism
What philosophical form corresponds to mass struggles? Arguing against a monistic Marxism, Darren Rosso continues the debate about Fluss and Frim’s reclamation of Enlightenment rationality.
Marxism for the Age of Climate Emergency
The “specter of communism” is passé; are “seeds of degrowth communism” taking root today? Gareth Dale evaluates Kohei Saito’s latest book.
The Mother Gives Birth, the State Kills
Dina Alves tells the story of the Brazilian Mothers of May movement: how it came to be and the challenges it faces in the reality of the Brazilian criminal justice system.