Archives: Online Posts
Abolition and Tenant Power in Chinatown
Tenant organizers in LA write about the power of abolitionist politics in the fight against displacement in Chinatown.
Mental Illness and Capitalism
David Matthews problematizes biological conceptualizations of mental illness under capitalism and outlines a dialectical, historical Marxist approach.
A Return on Our Investment
Washington has intervened in Latin America several times since the Monroe Doctrine was established 200 years ago. U.S.-promoted border militarization across the Western Hemisphere is this intervention’s newest evolution.
Neither Productivism nor Degrowth
Ståle Holgersen moves us beyond the stale impasse between degrowth and eco-modernist approaches to eco-socialist strategy.
Bathrooms
While incarcerated, Heather Jarvis reflects on bathrooms as formative scenes.
Burning Out of Control
John Clarke explains how Canada’s forest fires are both caused by and contribute to climate change, with its socially unequal and widespread effects.
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.
Renewing Political Marxism
Daniel Tutt reviews Isabelle Garo’s recent “Communism and Strategy,” bringing it into conversation with Laclau, Mouffe, Althusser and other authors in and responding to the communist tradition.