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Computers Are Technically Work

Sam Dee responds to two recent articles by Gary Levi and Sam Heft-Luthy on tech work and tech workers, arguing that properly understanding each of these first requires deconstructing the craft ideology of the tech professions.

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Why Do We Need European Left Unity?

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Yestergay's Man: Eric Orner's Smahtguy

Hank Kennedy reviews cartoonist Eric Orner's biography of US politician Barney Frank.

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We join Sam Gindin to discuss the evolving nature of global capitalism through the lens of U.S. hegemony, neoliberalism, and emerging geopolitical shifts.

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In Review: Jeff Schuhrke’s 'Blue Collar Empire'

Henry De Groot reviews Jeff Schuhrke's new book 'Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade' and argues that, although Schuhrke has produced a solid introduction to the topic, the work is missing key context.

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Examining Cuba's Knowledge Economy: A Review of Lage's "The Knowledge Economy and Socialism"

In a review of Cuban scientist Agustín Lage Dávila's new book 'The Knowledge Economy and Socialism,' Renato Flores reflects on the role of science and knowledge production under capitalism and socialism, asking how knowledge workers can be incentivized differently under socialism.

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Letter: Against a New Model for Small Publishing

May 11, 2025

“With regards to recent discussion about small presses and the recent failure of the non-profit model upon which many boutique presses relied, I feel that much of this …”

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Letter: A Different Model For Small Publishing

May 9, 2025

“Dear Editors,I was struck by “Publishing Poetry Today and Tomorrow: What Are You, In Love With Your Problems?” precisely because it names the entanglement of small presses in …”

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Letter: Chronicle of Genocide Foretold

April 22, 2025

“It’s no mystery who killed Santiago Nasar nor the motives behind the tragic murder. Instead, the narrator of Gabriel García Márquez’s 1981 novella Chronicle of a Death Foretold …”

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