Tag: Social Movements
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.
“The Greatest New York City Mayor of All Time”
Keith Rosenthal looks back on the historical record of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in order to reexamine the relationship between social movements and their elected officials.
¡Ningún Ser Humano Es Ilegal! Resistiendo los Ataques Contra los Migrantes de Trump
Frente al resurgimiento del Trumpismo, un organizador de Vermont que lucha por los derechos de la comunidad migrante nos recuerda que la verdadera justicia nace de la solidaridad y la organización desde abajo.
Queer Is Total, Baby!
Ira Hybris and Ricci Galiano argue that true communist revolution demands embracing the full diversity of the proletariat—queer, racialized, disabled, feminized and beyond—as essential to building a liberatory politics of totality that leaves no one behind.
Queer Politics and Class War
Dani Joslyn critically reviews Joanna Wuest’s recent book on queer politics, which reproduces the social democratic opposition between social movements to union politics.
From Policy as Technocratic Exercise to “Way Station of Tenant Power”
Reflecting on Abolish Rent, Ben Teresa argues that policymaking must become a “way stations of tenant power” rather than a technocratic adjustment to market realities.
Scholasticide as Cultural Genocide
A comrade writes on scholasticide as cultural genocide.
Under Postfascism, Fractures in the State Will Make Openings for Protest
What does Trump’s election mean for the immediate future of social struggles?
The Kenyan Uprising
Zachary J. Patterson analyzes the neocolonial history fueling the Kenyan uprising and the organizational strategies of the #RutoMustGo movement.
Give Us Our Land Back
With the concept of “Shamiya Feminism”, Banah Ghadbian highlights the solidarities connecting Syrian and Palestinian earth-based feminist, ecological, and liberatory resistances.