Their indoctrination and ours
by Tyler Thier
…and textually dynamic pamphlets and other materials that could easily be used as readings on the exam; they may not be up to the standards of research and composition that…
Revolution means smashing the state
by brian bean
…in a famous line from The Communist Manifesto, is “but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.” But what are those common affairs? Primarily, these include…
Worker insurgency and the New Deal
The inevitability of hindsight
by Kim Moody…for collective bargaining” and acted accordingly.25Daniel Nelson, “The Company Union Movement, 1900–1937: A Re-examination,” The Business History Review, Vol. 56, No. 3 (Autumn 1982), 338; Bureau of Labor Statistics, Handbook,…
When commonsense fails
Problems with Jacobin’s experimental study
by Pete Ikeler, Andy Sernatinger, & Erin Cass…search for openings that can build and prepare workers for the conquest of political power. And yet something is very wrong about Commonsense Solidarity. In design, construction, execution, and conclusion,…
Political economy of passing
A Trans genre meditation on queerness
by Eric Maroney…the trans self, which further complicates the act of coming out. The promise of neoliberal freedom runs only as far as the body can bend. Thus, while trans peoples’ desire…
“Trans bans” and “groomer panic”
A timeline of the anti-trans moral panic in the U.S.
by Dean O'Possum…influencers, politicians, “socially accredited experts,” and “other right-thinking people” all seem to compete for a place in the spotlight when it comes to bashing trans people and making conspiratorial assumptions…
Giving credit to the wrong class
“Explaining” strikes for union recognition
by Kim Moody…not require recognition of existing trade unions…as exclusive agencies for collective bargaining…[,] outlaw company unions,” or “compel employers to come to terms with employee representatives.” “The Board’s main efforts were,”…
In search of resistance
A review of The World Turned Upside Down
by Lee Wengraf…of the planet. Intimations of the future, I think …” Leo Zeilig’s latest novel is a wild ride. From the opening pages about a wealthy banker’s violent death to an…
No free speech for fascists (excerpted)
Exploring ‘No Platform’ in history, law, and politics
by David Renton…is usually forgotten however is that each of these cases ended in decisions subordinating free speech. In Schenck, for example, the Supreme Court held that distributing leaflets opposing the compulsory…
The outlines of opposition in a post-Trump U.S.A.
by Peter Ikeler
…to persist throughout the Biden era, all talk of a “return to normalcy” notwithstanding. How did these forces come into being? What is their class composition? And what is their…