
In all our efforts, we must convince people that no positive change is possible without a rupture with capitalism.

In all our efforts, we must convince people that no positive change is possible without a rupture with capitalism.
Francis Parny calls for mobilization on May Day against Trump and the war-mongering capitalist class that he serves:
“Only the people can rise up and make themselves heard, opposing this global chaos”
Workers of the Word, Unite!
Francis Parny calls for mobilization on May Day against Trump and the war-mongering capitalist class that he serves:
“Only the people can rise up and make themselves heard, opposing this global chaos”
Mélenchon vs. Hollande
Olly Haynes reviews Jean-Luc Mélenchon and François Hollande's new books:
“Where Hollande identifies himself with the state, Mélenchon identifies himself with the people—the mass of humanity organised as a collective actor.”
His thought and his life stand as compelling exemplars of a figure he would rightly praise: “the Socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom”.
Tom O'Shea writes about James Connolly on this anniversary of the Easter Rising:
‘His thought and his life stand as compelling exemplars of a figure he would rightly praise: “the Socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom”’
James Connolly, Socialist Republican
Tom O'Shea writes about James Connolly on this anniversary of the Easter Rising:
‘His thought and his life stand as compelling exemplars of a figure he would rightly praise: “the Socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom”’
Since the stated goal is now an inclusive republic, it becomes necessary to reinvent a past that supports it.
Emre Öngün writes about the revolt in Turkey, the “peace process” with Öcalan and the Kurds, the growing youth movement, and the resurgence of Kemalism.
Turkey’s Political Crisis & Democratic Movement
Emre Öngün writes about the revolt in Turkey, the “peace process” with Öcalan and the Kurds, the growing youth movement, and the resurgence of Kemalism.
The Tech Right has gained major influence in Washington by funding Republicans. The Abundance faction has taken a different route: funding Democrats.
Kate Willett considers the groups funding and promoting the "Abundance" faction in the Democratic Party:
“Both Klein and the Tech Right agree on one thing: democracy interferes with the market’s ability to generate abundance.”
Borders physically exist. There are police who will arrest or even shoot at those who cross them in the wrong way. "After a socialist revolution" is so vague as to be meaningless. Yeah, if you establish Utopia tomorrow there will be no borders. Can we get back to talking about the real world?
borders objectively exist. saying "it's good for people over that border to organize" is sensible for those in touch with objective material conditions
The article does not advocate American exceptionalism. It reflects on the influence America has globally and how social struggle within America has global impact.
It's not a shit title if you go outside and talk to people, they generally can understand that "American socialism" is equivalent to "socialism in America".
The World Needs American Socialism
Youssef Bouchi writes on the importance of American socialism from his perspective as an Arab immigrant in Canada:
"Grassroots movements in the U.S. already understand this [...] Our task from the outside is to support them."
Just as the pretension to ideally govern the climate failed, Biopolitics as a project to foster life also failed.
Pierre-Yves Cadalen calls for a new form of politics given the climate crisis:
“Ecopower, then, can be rewritten as the form of power from which humankind will decide if our time will be indefinitely transitory, or if it will abruptly end.”
Rather than celebrate the death of woke, I say we revive and herald it.
John Duncan argues that "We should follow Césaire and not Mollet. We should recognize the particulars of racial, gendered, disabled, LBGTQIA+—yes, the whole gamut of woke oppressions—and avoid mystifying abstraction. It is precisely the moment in which those “woke” particulars are under attack that we should grasp more tightly to solidaristic political action founded on that recognition that what divides us materially can unite us politically. A project in which universalism is not an imposition to fall in line with, but a goal to struggle towards. Rather than celebrate the death of woke, I say we revive and herald it."
Universalism & The Anti-Woke
John Duncan calls the Left to ‘recognise the divisions hidden by shallow liberal universalist attacks on “woke” and instead build a truly universal movement defined by solidarity.’
Universalism & The Anti-Woke
John Duncan calls the Left to ‘recognise the divisions hidden by shallow liberal universalist attacks on “woke” and instead build a truly universal movement defined by solidarity.’
When it comes to the literature of addiction, Burroughs stands as one of the most controversial and upsetting of its figures.
Thomas Necchi takes on Burroughs, addiction, and the "Ugly Spirit" that animates his work.
When it comes to the literature of addiction, Burroughs stands as one of the most controversial and upsetting of its figures.
Thomas Necchi takes on Burroughs, addiction, and the "Ugly Spirit" that animates his work.
The social war on the disabled has been waged for centuries, and it is ultimately a war on the body itself—on all of us.
This governance manifests for the majority of the disabled people in England and Wales, if not Britain entirely, as a vast propensity for social murder.
We are among those who believe that capitalism is not an insurmountable end. Our time is not doomed, it is uncertain.
By writing The Peoples’ Era in 2014—a revolutionary theory for a “citizens’ revolution”—Mélenchon performed a Marxist analysis of contemporary capitalism and its crisis. He redefined the notion of “the people”, those for whom revolution is now necessary. He shed light on the objective necessity to break with the capitalist order. This break, this politics of rupture, is perfectly communist. And this is the heart beating in all the work of the France Unbowed: to unite the people around a program of rupture.
We are among those who believe that capitalism is not an insurmountable end. Our time is not doomed, it is uncertain.
By writing The Peoples' Era in 2014—a revolutionary theory for a "citizens' revolution"—Mélenchon performed a Marxist analysis of contemporary capitalism and its crisis. He redefined the notion of "the people", those for whom revolution is now necessary. He shed light on the objective necessity to break with the capitalist order. This break, this politics of rupture, is perfectly communist. And this is the heart beating in all the work of the France Unbowed: to unite the people around a program of rupture.
Redeeming Oblivion: Mohawk Mothers & Residential Schools
The search for unmarked graves of Indigenous children in Canadian Residential Schools led to disturbing discoveries about the Church and State-enforced disappearances of children.
The search for unmarked graves of Indigenous children in Canadian Residential Schools led to disturbing discoveries about the Church and State-enforced disappearances of children. This text recounts the ongoing alliance between Indigenous and non-Indigenous survivors of childhood institutionalization in Quebec to protect forensic evidence of atrocities committed against them between World War II and the 1960’s.
Choosing to be Palestinian
Said was the very antithesis of ramshackle sentiment–but if there are living roots to naive dreaming, to love and morality as modes of political engagement, Said drew water from them just as well.
For Said, humanism was a worldliness, a recognition (born from and shared with one of his great heroes, Giambattista Vico) that history, as something human beings made, was something they could understand and which they ought to claim responsibility for if they want it to be something else.