Tag: Social Movements
The Vicious Circle
Reflecting on the trial of Derek Chauvin, Nicholas De Genova interrogates the white masculinist culture of violence that surrounds policing in the United States.
Lessons from Hong Kong’s Fight for Democracy
An anonymous activist from Hong Kong draws lessons from the recent protests and explains what’s changed since the enactment of the draconian National Security Law.
Keep the Streets: Coup, Crisis, and Capital in Myanmar
Geoffrey Aung discusses this month’s coup in Myanmar, the class composition of popular resistance, and how these events fit into a longer trajectory of capitalist transition.
The Radical Practicality of Community Control Over Policing
Community self-defense requires the capacity to respond to any and all challenges to its safety and self-determination—which requires gaining control over the resources currently consumed by police departments.
Proud Boys Face Canada’s Anti-Terror Law
John Clarke argues that the Canadian state’s repression of the Proud Boys sets a dangerous precedent for working-class movements and the political left.
The Postcolonial Autumn
The old regime of the Green Revolution is dying, while a new, more baleful, cycle of agrarian capitalism is waiting to be born. Aditya Bahl looks at the spectacular groundswell of anticapitalist resistance by farmers and agrarian workers that has emerged in this interregnum.
An Unfinished Epoch of Revolution
Joseph Daher takes stock of the Arab Spring ten years later.
Fascism, Capital, and the State Today
Charlie Post responds to Cihan Tuğal’s critique of Spectre’s editorial statement on the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
The Rabble and the Door
Steve Edwards on the semiotics of the invasion: “one set of supremacist fantasies faced off against another imaginary order.”
Fascism, Resistance, and the State
Cihan Tuğal offers a friendly critique of Spectre’s editorial statement on antifascist strategy in the wake of last week’s capitol riots.