Tag: Strategy
Irreducibly Multiple
Mattie Armstrong-Price reflects on the meaning of last night’s election returns in the United States and its meaning for the American left going forward.
The Exception as the Rule
Lina Nasr El Hag and Olena Lyubchenko argue that ongoing organizing in the face of COVID-19 reveals how class struggles in Toronto are inseparable from fights waged on feminist, antiracist, and other fronts, all in the name of reclaiming life over profits.
The Interregnum
Spectre’s Tithi Bhattacharya interviewed Meagan Day, Justin Charles, and Charlie Post about the left, electoral strategy, and class and social movements after the defeat of Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Primary. In the first part, each answers Bhattacharya’s questions and in the second part, they respond to one another.
The Rank and File Strategy on New Terrain
Danyal Kade Doyle Griffiths rethinks the rank-and-file strategy in light of recent developments, arguing for the incorporation of social reproduction analyses in our strategic reflections.
Global Fever
Gareth Dale reviews Andreas Malm’s forthcoming book on responses to the coronavirus and climate change. “Malm describes his project as Leninist—but which of the umpteen Lenins is his?”
To End Police Violence, End Racial Capitalism
Peter Ikeler challenges Dustin Guastella’s recent argument that socialists should oppose the defunding of police. Against this reactionary line, Ikeler advocates a properly socialist and abolitionist politics.
Art Workers Rise Up
For too long, gatekeepers of the art world have spoken in the name of the sector’s most marginalized workers. But now these workers are taking back the narrative, linking antiracist mobilization to struggles in their own workplaces.
The Death of Hong Kong’s Autonomy: Beyond the Crackdown
Spectre’s Ashley Smith interviews leading Hong Kong activist Au Loong Yu in the aftermath of China’s latest crackdown. What does it all mean against the backdrop of the pandemic, global recession, and Cold War redux?
On Class Suicide
A younger comrade interviews Paul McLennan on the continuing relevance of his experience industrializing in the 1970s
From “Class Suicide” to Working-Class Rebirth
Paul McLennan, a former STO member, describes his experience committing class suicide and industrializing in the American South in the 1970s