Author: Promise Li
After the Fire
Promise Li argues that the mutual aid response to the LA fires shows both the carceral city’s abandonment of its communities and the possibility of changing politics as usual.
Imperialism as Antagonistic Cooperation
Drawing on previously untranslated work from POLOP and August Thalheimer, Promise Li theorizes the interdependent character of today’s imperial order.
What Was Chinese Trotskyism?
Taking Wang Fanxi’s analysis of Chinese Trotskyism as his point of departure, Promise Li argues that recovering dissident Marxisms is essential for the contemporary project of challenging bureaucratic cooptation of working-class struggles.
Building Asian American Liberation from Below
Promise Li argues that a true movement for liberation for Asian Americans requires building collective power by linking anti-racist and anti-capitalist struggles in coalition with other marginalized communities.
A Left Case for Hong Kong Self-Determination
Though the left has been sidelined in these protests, our role should neither be simply tailing the demands nor opposing them.