Archives: Online Posts
The Intersections and Divergences of Disability and Race
Keith Rosenthal asks what the longes sit-in ever to take place in a federal building can teach us about the intersection of racism and ableism?
The Making of India’s Vaccine Famine
Swati Birla and Kuver Sinha argue that vaccine capitalism is inexorably taking us to a Covid endemic: a future where Covid is a treatable disease for the upper middle classes and a continuous deadly infectious disease with a steady level of fatalities among the poor.
“We Are the Guardians of Public Education”
Rhiannon Maton talks to two founding members of Raising Educators’ Voices (REV), a radical teachers’ union caucus in Vancouver.
Know Your Enemy
Alex King reviews Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective’s White Skin, Black Fuel, calling the original study a systematic inquiry into the political ecology of the far right in the twenty-first century.
After the Commune
Upon the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, William Clare Roberts argues that a realistic balance sheet is needed to shape socialist strategy in the present.
Reflections on the Third Intifada
Salwa Ibrahim writes about the novelty of the third intifada currently taking shape in Palestine.
Friends in Palestine, Has the Future Arrived?
Palestinian activist G. N. Nithya writes of the horrors of the ever-continuous Nakba.
The Colombian State Is at War with Its People
Laura Correa Ochoa, María Cárdenas, and Tianna S. Paschel argue that Colombia’s sustained assault on protesters this week represents a form of warfare that indigenous and Black communities know all too well.
Turning a Profit from Death
Spectre’s Tithi Bhattacharya explains why anti-capitalism is central to the struggle against COVID-19 in India and how Narendra Modi is by no means up to the task.
Why Feminism? Why Now?
Loubna Qutami asks what it means to think about Palestinian liberation as a feminist issue?