Tag: Social Reproduction
The Mother Gives Birth, the State Kills
Dina Alves tells the story of the Brazilian Mothers of May movement: how it came to be and the challenges it faces in the reality of the Brazilian criminal justice system.
Philosophy as Life-Making Struggle
Neil Braganza responds to Frim and Fluss’s debate with Aaron Jaffe, arguing that Spinoza’s monism requires open-ended thinking connected to struggles for liberation.
Revolution in Our Lifetime
Phil Kaplan reviews M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi’s Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052–2072.
On Our Own Terms
Noah Zazanis argues for the need to go beyond the NGO model to fight the right’s attacks on abortion and trans rights.
Turning a Profit from Death
Spectre’s Tithi Bhattacharya explains why anti-capitalism is central to the struggle against COVID-19 in India and how Narendra Modi is by no means up to the task.
Why the Boss Is Happy to Let You Die
The Canadian government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic is calculated and purposeful, and it reveals much about how our society is organized.
The Rank & File Strategy and the New Socialist Movement
Kim Moody responds to Kate Doyle Griffiths critical essay on the rank and file strategy, criticizing electoralist appropriations along the way.
The Exception as the Rule
Ongoing organizing in the face of COVID-19 reveals how class struggles in Toronto are inseparable from fights waged on feminist, anti-racist, and other fronts, all in the name of reclaiming life over profits.
Abolitionist Socialism
Peter Bloom charts a path toward an abolitionist Marxism rooted in what he calls a “commons sense” for the current moment.
The Rank and File Strategy on New Terrain
How should we think about the rank and file strategy in light of recent developments, and how can it incorporate an analysis of social reproduction? Kate Doyle Griffiths reflects on what this means for socialist strategy today.