Archives: Online Posts
After the Pandemic Slump, What Next?
Spectre’s Ashley Smith interviewed economist Michael Roberts about global economic prospects after the corona crisis.
Keep the Streets: Coup, Crisis, and Capital in Myanmar
Geoffrey Aung discusses this month’s coup in Myanmar, the class composition of popular resistance, and how these events fit into a longer trajectory of capitalist transition.
The Radical Practicality of Community Control Over Policing
Community self-defense requires the capacity to respond to any and all challenges to its safety and self-determination – which requires gaining control over the resources currently consumed by police departments.
Hegemony Is Not Repression: A Conversation on Christopher Chitty’s Work
M. Buna interviews Max Fox, who edited Christopher Chitty’s posthumous book Sexual Hegemony, released last year on Duke University Press.
Proud Boys Face Canada’s Anti-Terror Law
John Clarke argues that the Canadian state’s repression of the Proud Boys sets a dangerous precedent for working-class movements and the political left.
Defeat the Police
Omedi Ochieng discusses the police’s role as a counterinsurgent force, and the impact this has on how radical movements can meaningfully pursue police abolition.
Antiracist History, Crisis Theory, and University Workers’ Struggles
Spectre’s Charlie Post interviews Rick Kuhn about his prolonged bout of Grossmania, ongoing university struggles in Australia, Bundism in Eastern Europe, and more
The Postcolonial Autumn
The old regime of the Green Revolution is dying, while a new, more baleful, cycle of agrarian capitalism is waiting to be born. In this interregnum, there has emerged a spectacular groundswell of anti-capitalist resistance by farmers and agrarian workers.
Dressing the Emperor
Thomas Watters explains why a class analysis of the petite bourgeoisie is crucial to understanding the current political moment.
Carceral Pardons, Carceral Riots
Dan Berger argues that Trump wielded his pardon power for the same reason governors have largely refused it: to defend mass incarceration and the political-economic inequalities it upholds.