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Dollar Signs
Spectre Editorial Board member Izzy Plowright interviews Rohan Shah about the roots of our contemporary moment in economic restructuring of 1970s and ’80s.
Rethinking the Syrian Revolution
Robert Francis challenges the exclusive geopolitical focus fueling skepticism on the Western left towards the Syrian Revolution, arguing for an anti-imperialism built on solidarity.
“Things That Are Survival for Us”
Carol Jean Crooks was a Black dyke. Born October 12, 1946, she grew up on the streets of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and died alone in early 2022. She worked and fought all her life in relative obscurity. Though most of her work wasn’t legal, her fights created a better and fairer world.
“Feminism Is a Sine Qua Non of All Genuinely Liberatory Struggles…”
Alva Gotby interviews Sophie Lewis about the potential for liberatory feminism and the necessity of a reckoning with reactionary feminist thought.
The Price of Freedom
Jordan Daniels reviews Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.
The UAE’s Subimperialism in Sudan
Husam Mahjoub analyzes the role of counterrevolutionary subimperial agents—in this case, the UAE—and their imperialist enablers in the ongoing conflict in Sudan.
Breaking the Cycle of Violence
In the latest entry in Spectre’s incarcerated writers’ series, Antoine E. Davis reflects on trauma, the desire of revenge, and how to overcome the cycle of violence.
What Are We Waiting For?
This two-part essay draws upon crisis theory and the history of economic crises to reflect on the current turbulence and the next economic crisis. This second part of the essay develops a theoretical framework for socialist resistance and movement coordination for when the next crisis hits.
What Are We Waiting For?
This two-part essay draws upon crisis theory and the history of economic crises to reflect on the current turbulence and the next economic crisis. The first part of the essay begins by drawing on the work of Daniel Bensaïd and Bob Jessop to reconceptualize crises as societal paroxysms—highlighting the role crises play both as disruptions and transformative reconsolidations of the capitalist order. From this starting point, the remainder of Part One explores how we might understand economic crises in the 2020s and the near future.
Mamdani’s Judeo-Bolshevik Threat
Benjamin Balthaser explores the representation of Zohran Mamdani as simultaneously foreign menace and inauthentic outsider, deploying both antisemitism and Islamophobia to prop up a neatly racialized version of politics.