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Anti-capitalism

To End Police Violence, End Racial Capitalism

Peter Ikeler challenges Dustin Guastella’s recent argument that socialists should oppose the defunding of police. Against this reactionary line, Ikeler advocates a properly socialist and abolitionist politics.

Care Work

Our Children Are in Crisis

A preschool teacher in Vermont writes about the calamity of going back to work in the fall.

Anti-capitalism

Why China Is Capitalist

Eli Friedman argues that, as of the late 1970s, China has become a fully fledged capitalist nation-state complete with its own settler colonial projects. Friedman argues China’s economy is characterized by the law of value and the commodity-form.

Art world

Art Workers Rise Up

For too long, gatekeepers of the art world have spoken in the name of the sector’s most marginalized workers. But now these workers are taking back the narrative, linking antiracist mobilization to struggles in their own workplaces.

abolition

Passing the Whip to Bezos

Adrienne Williams speaking at Oakland Port Shutdown, June 19, 2020.

Anti-capitalism

A Semester to Die For

In our latest dispatch, an English professor argues that plowing ahead with university reopening in the fall is akin to the Thatcherite mantra, “There is no alternative.”

Capitalism

Notes Toward a More Global History of Capitalism

Andrew Liu explains his new book on the development of capitalism in India and China in relation to his reading of Marx’s Capital. It is the concept of value, he argues, that allows us to fully realize what is novel about capitalist production.

Anti-capitalism

Smash the Banks in Order to Nationalize Them

In the wake of economic crisis, Lebanon’s Marxist forces have regrouped around a key demand: nationalize the banks! Bidayat Magazine interviews Marxist organizers from the campaign.

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