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After the Last Word
Ryan Breeden reviews Kevin B. Anderson’s “Marx’s Revolutionary Roads,” arguing that the book is a valuable step in an ongoing march of theoretical contestation.
For a Cultural and Academic Boycott of the UAE
TAGATU3 call for a cultural and academic boycott of the UAE.
The Evolution of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and Syria’s Future
Cihan Tuğal looks at the interplay between HTS’s movement dynamics and capitalist geopolitics to analyze the prospects for Syria’s future.
Class Struggle in France in 2025
John Mullen analyzes the instability of French national politics and how Marxists and revolutionaries have the space to intervene in the France Insoumise.
The Crisis of Social Reproduction, Women’s Agency, and Feminism in China
Ralf Ruckus interviews Yige Dong on the crisis of social reproduction in China, highlighting left feminisms and expanding women’s agency.
China’s Other Crisis
The People’s Republic of China has been hit by capitalism’s historical tendency toward fertility decline, a result of both increasing economic burdens on the proletariat and women’s resistance. So far, women have withstood the pressures from the Chinese Communist Party regime to give up their birth strike and bear more children.
“The Greatest New York City Mayor of All Time”
Keith Rosenthal looks back on the historical record of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in order to reexamine the relationship between social movements and their elected officials.
Review of Adam Turl’s Gothic Capitalism
Laura Fair-Schulz reviews Adam Turl’s Gothic Capitalism: Art Evicted from Heaven and Earth.
Jeffrey Epstein
Andrew Osborne analyzes the social dynamics that made Jeffrey Epstein an indispensable exemplar of the logic of capitalist appropriation before, ultimately, rendering him redundant.
Israel Is the Prison
Dania Rajendra and Dan Berger write about the connections between anticarceral struggle, both in the United States and Palestine.