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Against Bad Arguments for Terrible Things
Holly Lewis takes a sledgehammer to John Rees’s attempt to Marx-wash antitrans bigotry.
Serving Somebody
Cutting through A Complete Unknown’s apolitical individualist myth of Bob Dylan, Jordy Cummings puts Dylan back in the sixties to find the left’s Dylan.
Queer Politics and Class War
Dani Joslyn critically reviews Joanna Wuest’s recent book on queer politics, which reproduces the social democratic opposition between social movements to union politics.
On This Land We All Get Fed
Jacqui Germain reflects on the difficulties and tasks facing the leftist artist in a cultural space geared towards the political right.
Justice Delayed, Justice Denied
Kwaneta Harris reflects on a justice system that pardons those who violently attack it, while refusing clemency to those it abuses.
One Should Not Camouflage Capitalist and Imperialist China as “Socialist”
Replying to Immanuel Ness and John Bellamy Foster, Michael Pröbsting argues that the People’s Republic of China is both capitalist and imperialist.
Trump, Fascism, and the Authoritarian Turn
DK Renton looks to historic fascism to analyze the direction of Trump’s authoritarianism and for examples of a counterpolitics to fight it.
Tenant Organizing is Producing and Defending Territory
Expanding on the notion that transforming social relationships transforms space, Zara Cadoux examines Abolish Rent as both an organizing tool and a work of public geography.
A Tale of Two Ports
Phil Neel challenges the view of China as a challenger to US hegemony, arguing that hegemony produces the turbulent politics read as a sign of its demise.
From Policy as Technocratic Exercise to “Way Station of Tenant Power”
Reflecting on Abolish Rent, Ben Teresa argues that policymaking must become a “way stations of tenant power,” rather than a technocratic adjustment to market realities.