Archives: Online Posts
Infectious Optimism
Dan Boscov-Ellen writes about the limits of reform to stave off climate change, and proposes radical alternatives.
Salt in the Wound
Juan Grigera asks how we should understand the crises emerging from Covid-19?
Class Organization and Rupture on the Terrain of Housing
Justin Gilmore, an organizer with the Oakland-based Tenant and Neighborhood Councils (TANC), argues for a focus on base-building instead of service and advocacy.
No Vacancies, Evict the Speculators
Julian Francis Park and Hyunjee Nicole Kim, two partisans of the tenants’ movement, explain why home reclamations are more essential now than ever, discussing anti-eviction strategy in Oakland, California
The Necropolitics of Heroism
Gediminas Lesutis and Jon Las Heras interrogate the politics of heroizing “essential” workers, arguing that our applause is no substitute for their health—and potentially their lives.
Crisis and the Global Factory at the US-Mexico Border
In light of the precarity of maquiladoras, Gabrielle Solis looks at the condition of workers along the border during the pandemic.
On Class Suicide
A younger comrade interviews Paul McLennan on the continuing relevance of his experience industrializing in the 1970s
From “Class Suicide” to Working-Class Rebirth
Paul McLennan, a former STO member, describes his experience committing class suicide and industrializing in the American South in the 1970s
The Virus Infects Politics, Part Two
Philosopher Michael Bray provides us with six theses on social reproduction, biopolitical economies, and the legitimacy of states in the context of the current crisis.
Class, Race, and Radicalism in the Twentieth Century US South
Charles Post interviews Michael Goldfield about his new book The Southern Key.