Tag: Strategy
“We Won!”: University Professors Strike in Québec City
This February, thirteen-hundred faculty members walked off the job at Québec City’s Université Laval for nearly five weeks, winning a number of concessions from the university including pay raises and improvements to faculty workloads. Rhiannon Maton interviews Nat Nesvaderani about life on the picket line and the lessons learned for future struggles.
The Political Social Ontology of Astrology
Astrology has regained prominence as a resistance practice that challenges capitalist modernity. Matthew Cull and Nadia Mehdi ask: How might forms of thought inherent to astrological practice render us more, rather than less, susceptible to capitalist control?
Marxism for the Age of Climate Emergency
The “specter of communism” is passé; are “seeds of degrowth communism” taking root today? Gareth Dale evaluates Kohei Saito’s latest book.
Notes on America’s Railroads
Guy Miller explains the roots of Congressional strikebreaking in the railroad industry.
Five Abortion Strategies from the Argentinian Perspective
Lucila Szwarc offers five strategies from the abortion struggle in Argentina for the post-Roe United States and for abortion rights seekers globally
Beyond Compromise and Constraint
John Clarke writes about education workers in Ontario pushing back against draconian legislation—only to agree to major concessions.
Against Multipolar Imperialism
Promise Li argues that multipolar imperialism is an undesirable outcome for the left insofar as it remains a form of imperialism.
Understanding the Carnage
The Colorado Springs shooting represents a wave of protofascist violence targeting queer and trans people. Now, more than ever, is the time for a mass movement for LGBTQ liberation.
Looting, Dispossessing, Incarcerating
How is the ecological fallout from the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in Brazil related to the struggle against prisons?
Tories Collapse Amidst a Growing Strike Wave
Raymond Morell writes about the latest wave of strikes across the United Kingdom, the failures of Tory austerity, and challenges facing the new movement.