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…
Political economy of passing
A Trans genre meditation on queerness
by Eric Maroney…You dress like that because you want to rape men, trick men.”2We Are Many Media, “The Struggle for Trans Liberation: A Conversation with CeCe McDonald,” YouTube, 2014, https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=emx5iHwbPOg. Her…
Worker insurgency and the New Deal
The inevitability of hindsight
by Kim Moody…This is low compared to what was to come, but high compared to what preceded it, and moving upward. The economic context also mattered. The biggest increase in strikes and…
The political economy of disability
Part one: Disability and socialism roundtable, Socialism 2022
by Keith Rosenthal…the logic of commodified market competition. Insofar as the value of commodity labor power under capitalism is both a creation and a measure of the rate of exploitation obtaining in…
Defend the encampments!
Reflections on the Zionist assault at UCLA
by Julian Yin…1, a few Zionists returned, but this time they were supported by three different police units that directly waged war on the encampment. Thousands of students and community allies—many coming…
When your assaulter is the “Lesser Evil”
Tara Reade, Biden, and #MeToo
by Natalia Tylim…them, saying: “This never happened.” After months of inaction and dismissal, Reade commented, “I think I’m a poster child as to why women won’t come forward…it’s pretty obvious if you…
On the origins and development of Hamas
by Joseph Daher
…2023 were also killed by Israeli occupying forces, including by firing tank shells at houses where Israelis were detained. For example see https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rkjqoobip. By contrast, the issue for the Israeli…
Reflections on building the third camp
An interview with Samuel Farber
by Kent Worcester…next thing I knew I was admitted. KW:What were you planning to study? SF:I postponed my major at the University of Chicago because I planned to return to Cuba and…
The DSA moment is over
by Andy Sernatinger
…the National Labor Commission (NLC). DSA’s Ecosocialism Working Group was supplanted by the centrally-controlled Green New Deal Campaign Committee (GNDCC), with an explicit turn towards Biden in its rationale6 “Biden…
How rock became white (part 2)
A change is gonna come: Motown, The Beatles, and the rise of Soul
by Geoff Bailey…investigated the common-place practice of DJs taking bribes in return for playing certain records on-air. But the investigation was closely tied to the hysteria around rock and roll and targeted…