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The Far Right’s So-Called Civil War over Israel
Matt Seriff-Cullick argues that the MAGA “civil war” over Israel is in fact a staged antagonism, one that turns anti-imperialist anger into fuel for fascist imperialism.
Beyond the Labour Machine
A New Zealand dock workers’ union just did something no major union has done in a century: voted to affiliate with a socialist party alongside Labour.
Friends Everywhere
Through an analysis of Star Wars, Anthony Lioi considers corporate permeability, fan agency, droid rebellion, revolutionary ecologies, and the movement of hope from art to audience.
The Minneapolis Uprising and After
Aminah Sheikh gives a powerful account of the roots and radicalism of Twin Cities’ victorious resistance and ongoing struggle against Trump’s ICE gestapo.
The University’s Deportable Workers
Abigail Boggs details how US universities have become instruments of mass immigration enforcement and what it would mean to transform them into sites of abolitionist sanctuary.
What Are We Mourning Now?
Jin Haritaworn challenges the racialized moral panic fueling the carceral and authoritarian responses to attack on Berlin’s Pride.
The Lovers’ International
Emma Heaney reviews Alex Stoffel’s Eros and Empire.
Race, Democracy, and the Politics of Counterrevolution in the United States
Rafael Khachaturian talks with Michael Gorup about the constitutive role racism has played in US “democracy.”
Review of David McNally’s Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History
Charles Post and Nick Nesbitt review David McNally’s 2025 book “Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History.”
Spectacles of Fascism in an Age of Exhaustion
In a reading of Richard Seymour’s Disaster Nationalism, Benjamin Balthasar argues that today’s far right channels popular disillusionment into apocalyptic fantasies of destruction. The left, he insists, must respond with a politics of collective freedom rather than appeals to a return to neoliberal normalcy.