Tag: Social Movements
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
Soledad Santana highlights the scholasticide in Gaza as part of a genocide to which institutions of international law are blind
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.
Last Fair Deal in the Country
Jordy Cummings draws lessons from this year’s CUPE 3903 strike at York University in Toronto.
Nos tenemos entre nosotres
Camila Valle details the history of self-managed abortion, showing that we have always healed collectively and that communities of care are where our power lies.
In Solidarity with the Encampments! In Solidarity with Palestine!
Palestine is the moral and political litmus test of our time. Spectre stands in solidarity with the encampment movement against the genocide in Gaza.
Review of The Exhausted of the Earth
David Camfield reviews of Ajay Singh Chaudhary’s book The Exhausted of the Earth. How can ecosocialism defeat right-wing climate realism?
From Palestine to Tahrir Square
Hossam el-Hamalawy argues that Palestine’s struggle for self-determination has served as an inspiration for the struggle for democracy in Egypt