Between Protests, Oil Boom, and Multipolarity: An Interview on Kazakhstan with Kuat Akizhanov
Kuat Akizhanov, Arman Spéth, March 26, 2025
Arman Spéth interviews economist Kuat Akizhanov on the post-Soviet political and economic history of Kazakhstan, the 2022 protests which shook the country, and the possibility for a renewed Kazakhstani socialism. This is a translation of an interview first published in Jacobin Magazine's German-language outlet. Read Article.
Bolshevism: Old and New—Lenin and the 'April Theses'
Steve Bloom, March 21, 2025
Steve Bloom takes issue with Lars Lih's interpretation of Lenin's April Theses, arguing contra Lih that Lenin's intervention in April 1917 did represent a break with "old" Bolshevism. Read Article.
Hitsville USA and American Petrograd: The Motown Sound and Detroit Politics
Hank Kennedy, March 19, 2025
Hank Kennedy discusses the legendary Detroit-based recording company Motown Records, arguing that the label's history is one of contradictions between commercial interest, artistic expression, and political commitment. Read Article.
From Charnel-House to Breadbasket: Legacies of South America’s Forgotten Holocaust
Jaime Litvak, March 12, 2025
In the 1860s, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay decimated Paraguay’s population in a genocidal, scorched-earth military campaign known today as the War of the Triple Alliance. Jaime Litvak argues that Paraguay's defeat in the war played a key role in thwarting autonomous economic development in post-Independence Latin America. Read Article.
Seen This Movie Before: Dylan Comes Round Again
Lawrence Parker, March 5, 2025
Why is Bob Dylan’s ‘apostasy’ in turning his back on the liberal-left folk establishment in the mid-1960s endlessly replayed? Lawrence Parker investigates. Read Article.
On Bird-Brained Readings of Althusser: A Response to P.K. Gandakin and Scottie O.
Nicolas D Villarreal, February 26, 2025
Nicolas D Villarreal takes issue with the interpretation of Althusser found in two articles recently featured in Geese Magazine, arguing that authors P.K. Gandakin and Scottie O. exhibit the very humanism and historicism Althusser opposed. Read Article.
All of Us Palestinians
Adel Irankhah, February 19, 2025
The existence of the Israeli state is an embodiment of the criminal nature of the current liberal world order, argues Adel Irankhah. Translated from Persian by Ahmad Esmaeili. Read Article.
The Social Formation of the Far Right
Conrad Hamilton, February 14, 2025
How should we understand the far right? Conrad Hamilton argues that while its discourse is often defined as purely prejudicial, what this elides is the way its chauvinism indexes to the reproductive needs of capitalism–the reality of capitalism's social formation. Read Article.
The 1971 Frankfort-Schuyler Teachers Strike and The Unique Paradigm Against Public Employees
J.N. Cheney, February 12, 2025
J.N. Cheney recounts an illegal 1971 strike by public school teachers in New York State's Frankfort-Schuyler District, arguing that their struggle exemplifies the fight for public employees' right to strike. Read Article.
Why Socialists Must be Abolitionists: Challenging Carcerality in Socialist Spaces
Simoun Magsalin, February 5, 2025
The socialist movement must oppose the carceral institutions and logic deployed by the ruling class and the left alike for the repression of the working class. As an alternative, Simoun Magsalin makes the case for abolition communism. Read Article.