Tag: Nationalism
Spectacles of Fascism in an Age of Exhaustion
In a reading of Richard Seymour’s Disaster Nationalism, Benjamin Balthasar argues that today’s far right channels popular disillusionment into apocalyptic fantasies of destruction. The left, he insists, must respond with a politics of collective freedom rather than appeals to a return to neoliberal normalcy.
On US Intervention and the Venezuelan State
Spectre editors Shireen Akram-Boshar and Charlie Post interview Federico Fuentes, a longtime Venezeula solidarity activist, as part of Spectre’s ongoing evaluation of the conjuncture in Venezuela.
Varieties of White Nationalism
Shane Burley looks at Richard Spencer’s rebranding effort to illuminate the movement dynamics and political impasses of the “dissident” right.
Nationalism and Capitalism’s Ever-Spiraling Crisis
Through the lens of nationalism, Jacob Wilson evaluates Wolfgang Streeck and Jamie Merchant’s respective responses to capitalist crisis. Is left anticapitalist nationalism possible?
Resisting Genocide: The Uyghur Struggle for Justice
Ashley Smith interviews Uyghur activist and human rights lawyer Rayhan Asat on the Chinese state’s repression of Uyghurs in Xinjang and beyond.
No to Russian Imperialist Aggression, No to US/NATO Interference
Two comrades from India weigh in on the conflagration in Ukraine
Decolonization without National Sovereignty
Nandita Sharma responds to Neil Braganza’s review of her book Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants
Reflections on the Third Intifada
Salwa Ibrahim writes about the novelty of the third intifada currently taking shape in Palestine.
Resurgent Sectarianism in the North of Ireland
Seán Mitchell writes of republican militants, loyalist devils, and the necessity of a class-based alternative in Ireland.
Beyond Borders
Is postcolonial nationalism a liberatory force because it’s postcolonial, or a reactionary force because it’s nationalism? Nandita Sharma speaks to Spectre editor Zachary Levenson about this question in relation to her new book, Home Rule.