Archives: Online Posts

Panem et Circenses
Beliu García Parra reports from the front lines of the public healthcare crisis in Spain.

Stand Up and Fight for, and Alongside, Your Trans Siblings
Danelle Wylder’s expanded speech from Chicago’s Trans Day of Resistance.
On “Being Serious About Ideas”
William Clare Roberts responds to Landon Frim’s and Harrison Fluss’s argument, printed previously in these pages, that Marxist political strategy requires theoretical grounding in dialectical monism.
The New Anti-Dreyfusards
Benjamin Balthaser argues that Antony Lerman’s recent book on state antisemitism fails to develop a theory of antisemitism for the current moment.
Materialism and the Crisis of Marxism
What philosophical form corresponds to mass struggles? Arguing against a monistic Marxism, Darren Rosso continues the debate.
Family Abolition
Colin Wilson on Sophie Lewis and the politics of family abolition
Marxism for the Age of Climate Emergency
The “specter of communism” is passé; are “seeds of degrowth communism” taking root today? Gareth Dale evaluates Kohei Saito’s latest book.
Banks on the Brink? The Origins, Nature, and Trajectory of the Crisis
What caused the SVB failure? Is a larger crisis on the horizon? Michael Roberts talks to Spectre’s Ashley Smith.
The Mother Gives Birth, the State Kills
Dina Alves tells the story of the Brazilian Mothers of May movement: how it came to be and the challenges it faces in the reality of the Brazilian criminal justice system.