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¡Fuera Piñera!
Jeffery R. Webber analyzes the 2019–20 round of social struggles in Chile. Toward the eradication of all traces of the Pinochet years! Fuera Piñera!
Only the Rank and File Can Save Us Now
Tre Kwon argues that organizing, workplace action, and basic protective equipment are not privileges, but necessities for saving the lives of nurses and patients.
How to Have a Boycott in a Pandemic
Anthony Alessandrini asks what the pandemic changes about the strike at UC Santa Cruz?
Jordy Cummings’s Review of Comrade
Jodi Dean responds to Jordy Cummings’s review of her book, Comrade. Is it possible to think, write, and practice a communism that is not fully determined by the debates and divisions of the twentieth century?
How “Just-in-Time” Capitalism Spread COVID-19
Historically, epidemics have spread through two forms of movement: trade and war. Kim Moody examines how the pace of this spread accelerated dramatically with the rise of capitalism.
Thoughts on Jodi Dean’s Comrade
Jordy Cummings reviews Jodi Dean’s Comrade. What politics underlies the concept of “comradeship”? Is it a term that levels the playing field, or is it imposed from the top down?
Fighting to Save Lives in a World That Doesn’t Value Them
Bonnie Castillo argues that it was nurses, and not the Trump administration or employers, that prioritized saving lives over money
What Is Holding Back the Formation of a Global Prison Abolitionist Movement to Fight COVID-19 and Capitalism?
Frieda Afary and Lara Al-Kateb argue that he COVID-19 pandemic has given new urgency to the need to abolish prisons, refugee camps and the inhuman capitalist carceral system.
Towards a General Strike to End the COVID-19 Crisis and Create a New World
Members of Cooperation Jackson argues that we must do everything that we can to create a new, just, equitable and ecologically regenerative economy.
A Left Case for Hong Kong Self-Determination
Promise Li argues that, though the left has been sidelined in the Hong Kong protests, our role should neither be simply tailing the demands nor opposing them.