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Our Children Are in Crisis
A preschool teacher in Vermont writes about the calamity of going back to work in the fall.
Why China Is Capitalist
As of the late 1970s, China has become a fully fledged capitalist nation-state, complete with its own settler colonial projects and characterized by the law of value and the commodity-form.
Art Workers Rise Up
For too long, gatekeepers of the art world have spoken in the name of the sector’s most marginalized workers. But now these workers are taking back the narrative, linking anti-racist mobilization to struggles in their own workplaces.
A Semester to Die For
In our latest dispatch, an English professor argues that plowing ahead with university reopening in the fall is akin to the Thatcherite mantra, “There is no alternative.”
Notes Toward a More Global History of Capitalism
Andrew Liu explains his new book on the development of capitalism in India and China in relation to his reading of Marx’s Capital. It is the concept of value, he argues, that allows us to fully realize what is novel about capitalist production.
Smash the Banks in Order to Nationalize Them
In the wake of economic crisis, Lebanon’s Marxist forces have regrouped around a key demand: nationalize the banks!
