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The Roots of Racist Policing
Kim Moody takes on class reductionist accounts of police violence.
Standing Together Against Sexual Violence at Dartmouth
Nancy Welch interviews four of the plaintiffs in the recent #ScienceToo sexual harassment and assault class action suit against three professors at Dartmouth
Street Art, Placemaking, and Anticapitalist Spatial Activism
Quill Kukla asks, “How can spatial activists in Berlin resist this subverting commodification of their cause, and how in particular can street art play a role in this resistance?”
From the Socialism of Fools to Social Democracy in One Country
Jordy Cummings writes about the emergent phenomenon of social democratic intellectuals appearing on right-wing terrain. Does this indicate a burgeoning red/brown alliance?
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.
Our Children Are in Crisis
A preschool teacher in Vermont writes about the calamity of going back to work in the fall.
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 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.
Passing the Whip to Bezos
Adrienne Williams speaking at Oakland Port Shutdown, June 19, 2020.