Tag: Politics
New Statue, Old Chimurenga
Lebohang Mojapelo writes about how little Zimbabwe has changed since the November 2017 coup that drove out Robert Mugabe.
Catastrophe in Lebanon
In the wake of the explosion in Beirut, can a social upsurge break free from the grip of Lebanon’s dominant parties?
Right-Wing Suicide in the U.S. Today
How should we understand the irrationalism of American rightists today? What to make of their seeming enthusiasm for the death drive?
Join the Poor People’s Army!
The Poor People’s Army writes about their upcoming march on Biden and the DNC. Lives over luxury!
Under China’s Thumb
Two members of Lausan explain how workers are organizing in Hong Kong in the face of the ferocious crackdown by the Chinese government.
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?
American Carnage
Police racism isn’t aberrant but is constitutive of a material and practical system of white supremacy embodied in state power.
15 Notes on 60 Days of Pandemic and Economic Depression in Brazil
A Brazilian historian and PSOL militant puts forward fifteen theses on the limits and opportunities in a conjuncture marked by multiple nested crises in his country
The Virus Infects Politics, Pt. 2
Philosopher Michael Bray provides us with six theses on social reproduction, biopolitical economies, and the legitimacy of states in the context of the current crisis.