Tag: Social Movements
Coming Home from the Mines
Robert Ovetz reflects on the centenary of the Kansas wildcat coal strikes, considering the role of the Amazon Army and reflecting on lessons to be drawn from this labor history.
Upticks, Waves, and Social Upsurge
Kim Moody explores the significance of Striketober 2021: what it means and, just as importantly, what it doesn’t.
Counterrevolution in Sudan
Magdi el-Gizouli discusses October’s military coup in Sudan and contextualizes the resistance to it in the wake 2018–19 movement.
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
Carceral Histories of Disability
Using disability as. alens, Keith Rosenthal analyzes the continuity between institutionalized asylums and the prison systems of today.
To Save the World
Huey Hewitt argues that Afropessimism is antithetical to the politics of friendship necessary for any serious project of Black liberation.
Rethinking Japan’s Red Years
Gavin Walker discusses the history and state of Marxist theory in Japan from the early twentieth century to the present day.
A Multitude in Precarious Conditions
Professor Leopoldo Múnera Ruiz analyzes the social composition and politics of the recent massive strikes in Columbia.
Trans Organizing in Times of Mass Struggle
Spectre Journal plans to publish in Issue Five a series of short essays that consider the involvement of trans organizers in recent cycles of struggle.