Archives: Online Posts
“We Fought and We Won”: Teacher Organizing in Philadelphia
Rhiannon Maton interviews a member of the Caucus of Working Educators in Philly about how the caucus has fought for safe schools and a safe workplace during the pandemic.
False Profits
Robert Ovetz critically engages Christian Parenti’s latest book Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder.
Just Imagine, My Dear, It Won’t Be Painless
Jeffery R. Webber writes about Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s recently translated Booker Prize-nominated novel “The Adventures of China Iron.”
Roundtable on China
Lausan and Critical China Scholars discuss how to effectively articulate a leftist, internationalist framework of solidarity in the face of mounting US-China tensions.
“Front Row Seat to All That’s Wrong”: School Nurse Organizing in Chicago
A rank-and-file member of the CTU speaks about his experience working as a school nurse in Chicago, covering working conditions, the pandemic, and above all, how the CTU is fighting back.
Recentering the Lumpen Question Today
Daniel Tutt reconsiders the meaning the “lumpenproletariat,” not as a noun, but as a verb: an active process of lumpenization. What implications does this rethinking have in store for communist strategy, and how does it allow us to better understand the recurrent phenomenon of Bonapartism?
Municipal Worker Strikes in Istanbul
As a strike wave builds in Istanbul, we get a taste of what organized labor will look like in a post-AKP Turkey.
After the Pandemic Slump, What Next?
Spectre’s Ashley Smith interviewed economist Michael Roberts about global economic prospects after the corona crisis.
Keep the Streets: Coup, Crisis, and Capital in Myanmar
Geoffrey Aung discusses this month’s coup in Myanmar, the class composition of popular resistance, and how these events fit into a longer trajectory of capitalist transition.
The Radical Practicality of Community Control Over Policing
Community self-defense requires the capacity to respond to any and all challenges to its safety and self-determination – which requires gaining control over the resources currently consumed by police departments.