Archives: Online Posts
Bathrooms
While incarcerated, Heather Jarvis reflects on bathrooms as formative scenes.
Burning Out of Control
John Clarke explains how Canada’s forest fires are both caused by and contribute to climate change, with its socially unequal and widespread effects.
Marxism and the U.S. Response to the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 Pandemics
Sam Friedman and Suzie Kay dive deep into the roots and parallels of the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 pandemics—and how we should respond to public health emergencies by building communities of care.
Popular Protest and Labor Insurgency in Iran
Shirin Kamangar analyzes the strengths and the weaknesses of Iran’s movement cycle.
The Last Day of Our Acquaintance
Camila Valle writes about the life and resistance of Shuhada’ Sadaqat/Sinéad O’Connor, and the forces that shaped her, from colonialism to the Catholic Church.
Renewing Political Marxism
Daniel Tutt reviews Isabelle Garo’s recent “Communism and Strategy,” bringing it into conversation with Laclau, Mouffe, Althusser and other authors in and responding to the communist tradition.
The Urgency of Police Abolition
Acácio Augusto draws on Foucault to develop a perspective encompassing the police not only as a technology of control, but also as part of the subjective construct of contemporary citizenship, in other words, the ways of making, thinking, and imagining of the subject of today’s security democracy: the citizen-cop.
Review of Eric Blanc’s Revolutionary Social Democracy
Peter Hudis reviews Eric Blanc’s Revolutionary Social Democracy
Resisting the Debt System
Ashley Smith interviews Éric Toussaint about the history of the debt system and its new crisis.
The Cape of Experience Tied around My Neck
With the prospect of freedom imminent, Ray Williams writes about memory and selfhood from a prison cell.