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
Joseph Daher asks if a social upsurge break free from the grip of Lebanon’s dominant parties In the wake of the explosion in Beirut?
Right-Wing Suicide in the United States Today
Sam Farber asks how we should 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
Nicholas De Genova argues that, rather than being an aberration, police racism is constitutive of a system of white supremacy embodied in state power.
Fifteen Notes on Sixty Days of Pandemic and Economic Depression in Brazil
Valério Arcary, 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 Necropolitics of Heroism
Gediminas Lesutis and Jon Las Heras interrogate the politics of heroizing “essential” workers, arguing that our applause is no substitute for their health—and potentially their lives.
The Virus Infects Politics, Part Two
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.