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abolition

Don’t Be Cruel

Corey Devon Arthur writes from a medium-security correctional facility in upstate New York.

Class struggle

Revolt and Reaction

Shireen Akram-Boshar draws key lessons from the current wave of revolt and reaction in the MENA region

Close-up of Benjamin Franklin's face on hundred banknote.
Capitalism

Crisis, Rivalry, and the Fragmentation of Global Capitalism

Ashley Smith interviews Michael Roberts about the system’s seemingly intractable crisis, the looming threat of war between great powers, and the desperate need for international working-class solidarity against militarism.

The first massive feminist protest in Buenos Aires, June 2015
Class struggle

Making Everything a Feminist Issue

Camila Valle on the violence of Argentina’s neoliberalism and the radicalizing feminist response that makes everything a feminist issue.

Canada

“We Won!”: University Professors Strike in Québec City

This February, thirteen-hundred faculty members walked off the job at Québec City’s Université Laval for nearly five weeks, winning a number of concessions from the university including pay raises and improvements to faculty workloads. Rhiannon Maton interviews Nat Nesvaderani about life on the picket line and the lessons learned for future struggles.

Russia in Global Competition

Against ahistorical and unscientific pseudo-explanations of Russia’s foreign policy as some consequence of “the Russian psyche,” Jase Short explains how neoliberal “reforms” in Russia have suppressed democracy domestically and driven that nation’s rise as a competitor attempting to beat US capital at its own game. What’s wrong with Russia, Short argues, is that capitalism and democracy cannot coexist there—just as they cannot coexist anywhere.

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