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Against Left Pronatalism
Neoliberalism enforces family responsibility with a cruel logic: a couple who can’t afford rent without both their incomes are a couple who stick together. A young adult who can’t afford college without student loans is a child who remains bound to her parent. Lack of public spending on public goods forces poor and working-class people into economic dependence on their relatives. Meanwhile, for the rich, the private family is reinforced as a main conduit for wealth transmission.
All Rights for All, Without Borders
Amidst the US governments’ attacks on migrants, Camilo Pérez-Bustillo argues for an anticolonial movement demanding all rights for all, without borders.
Lula in Historical and Political Context
Alice Taylor reviews Fernando Morais’s Lula: A Biography, arguing that Morais’s focus on Lula ignores the political context and shifting role of Lulismo.
H. Rap Brown, Jamil Al-Amin, and the Perils of Forgetting
susie day talks with Arun Kundnani about the unfortunately forgotten H. Rap Brown. Brown, now Imam Jamil Al-Amin, urgently needs medical care.
A Nation Divided on Both Sides of the Wall
PM Dunne describes the conversation between several inmates in Sing Sing Correctional Facility on the night of the 2024 US Presidential Election.
The Centrality of Reproduction and the Question of Labor Power
Sean K. Isaacs reviews Rebecca Carson’s Immanent Externalities, arguing that social reproduction politics demands a recentering of labor power.
We Keep Each Other Safe and Housed
Maga Miranda interviews the Rent Brigade’s Chelsea Kirk about tenant fightback against rent gouging in the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires.
After the Fire
Promise Li argues that the mutual aid response to the LA fires shows both the carceral city’s abandonment of its communities and the possibility of changing politics as usual.
LA Burning: Capitalism, Climate Change, and Resistance
Join this Spectre Live event to discuss the roots of the killer fires, collective solidarity amidst it, and what must be done to prevent future climate catastrophes.
Reactionary Decarbonization
Michael Levien challenges left arguments for CCS by pointing to its ecological and human costs. Why would the left support the fossil fuel industry?