Tag: 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.”
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.
Cops Off Campus and Out of Our Unions!
A member of an emergent radical caucus in CUNY’s PSC advocates expelling cop unions from all labor federations.
Fearless and Fired Up: Lessons from the 1930s
An interview with Mark Naison, author of “Communists in Harlem During the Depression,” on how the Communist Party organized beyond the workplace in the 1930s and its applicability to the current moment.
Get Their Knees Off Our Necks
Haley Pessin’s speech for Juneteenth 2020 addressing Amazonians United, rank and file workers at Amazon.
A Message from Walter Rodney
Robert Cuffy gives a speech at a march in New York City on Juneteenth, drawing on the words of Guyanese revolutionary Walter Rodney.
Defunding the Police Means Transforming Our Society
Gerald Smith speaks at today’s Juneteenth West Coast port shutdown against racist police violence, continuing the ILWU’s long history of waging antiracist struggles as class struggles.
Bartending in the Apocalypse
Interview with James Brooke about his graphic vignettes from Bartending the Apocalypse, and excerpts from the work. More available on Instagram: @bartendingintheapocalypse
Agents of Repression
Cinzia Arruzza uses a thought experiment to argue that the police don’t deserve the protections of working class solidarity.
For a Grad Workers’ Strike
Eli B. Lichstenstein argues that graduate workers must be at the forefront of a strike against cops, austerity, and the capitalist university.