Category: Article
Marxism and the U.S. Response to the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 Pandemics
Sam Friedman and Suzie Kay dive deep into the roots and parallels of the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 pandemics—and how we should respond to public health emergencies by building communities of care.
Popular Protest and Labor Insurgency in Iran
Shirin Kamangar analyzes the strengths and the weaknesses of Iran’s movement cycle.
The Last Day of Our Acquaintance
Camila Valle writes about the life and resistance of Shuhada’ Sadaqat/Sinéad O’Connor, and the forces that shaped her, from colonialism to the Catholic Church.
The Urgency of Police Abolition
Acácio Augusto draws on Foucault to develop a perspective encompassing the police not only as a technology of control, but also as part of the subjective construct of contemporary citizenship, in other words, the ways of making, thinking, and imagining of the subject of today’s security democracy: the citizen-cop.
The Cape of Experience Tied around My Neck
With the prospect of freedom imminent, Ray Williams writes about memory and selfhood from a prison cell.
Marching to a Different Drummer
Susan Ferguson explains how an analytic focus on time and temporalities might help us better understand how capitalism concretely conditions the work of life-making.
Don’t Be Cruel
Corey Devon Arthur writes from a medium-security correctional facility in upstate New York.
Revolt and Reaction
Shireen Akram-Boshar draws key lessons from the current wave of revolt and reaction that we can draw from the MENA region
Making Everything a Feminist Issue
Camila Valle on the violence of Argentina’s neoliberalism, and the radicalizing feminist response that makes everything a feminist issue.
Readings on Feminism and Neoliberalism
Verónica Gago develops the theory and strategy of the feminist response to neoliberalism in Latin America.