Category: Article
Materializing Race
Jack Norton and David Stein respond to John Clegg and Adaner Usmani’s argument that mass incarceration isn’t about racism. Norton and Stein demonstrate that Clegg and Usmani are both conceptually misguided and empirically wrong.
The Exception as the Rule
Lina Nasr El Hag and Olena Lyubchenko argue that ongoing organizing in the face of COVID-19 reveals how class struggles in Toronto are inseparable from fights waged on feminist, antiracist, and other fronts, all in the name of reclaiming life over profits.
Unfixing South Asian Identity
Drawing upon autobiographical reflections, JS Titus explores the class stratification of South Asians in the United Kingdom. Titus argues that class and oppression, rather than idealized identities, must be the basis of forging solidarity today.
Yih and Kulldorff’s “Radical” Covid Strategy
Epidemiologist Michael Friedman responds to two Harvard researchers who called for socialists to oppose lockdowns in the name of workers’ lives. But their argument, Friedman insists, puts us all at risk—above all, workers.
The Interregnum
Spectre’s Tithi Bhattacharya interviewed Meagan Day, Justin Charles, and Charlie Post about the left, electoral strategy, and class and social movements after the defeat of Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Primary. In the first part, each answers Bhattacharya’s questions and in the second part, they respond to one another.
New Statue, Old Chimurenga
Lebohang Mojapelo writes about how little Zimbabwe has changed since the November 2017 coup that drove out Robert Mugabe.
Catastrophe in Lebanon
Joseph Daher asks if a social upsurge break free from the grip of Lebanon’s dominant parties In the wake of the explosion in Beirut?
Abolitionist Socialism
Peter Bloom charts a path toward an abolitionist Marxism rooted in what he calls a “commons sense” for the current moment.
The Rank and File Strategy on New Terrain
Spectre editor Kate Doyle Griffiths reflects on Kim Moody’s rank and file strategy in this final part of a three-part essay, considering the rank and file strategy in relation to ongoing strategic debates on the US left.
Minneapolis in Paris
Drawing on ethnographic work on antiracist struggles in France, Jean Beaman makes the case for internationalizing Black Lives Matter.