Some Words of Advice for our Comrades in the Streets
Ahmed Nada, May 31, 2020
Throughout the United States, revolt against police violence and the state has broken out in response to the callous murder of George Floyd at the hands of the police. To help contribute to this outbreak of militancy, we have published these words of advice on successful protest from Ahmed Nada, a veteran of the Egyptian protest movements in 2011, 2012, and 2013. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Read Article.
Judith Butler's Impotent Politics of Nonviolence
Jared Ijams, May 26, 2020
Jared Ijams critiques Judith Butler's recent espousal of a politics of non-violence, linking it to their support of neoliberal Kamala Harris in the recent Democratic Party primary. Read Article.
The Tortoise and The Hare: Cybernetics, Evolution and Socialism
Amelia Davenport, May 22, 2020
Amelia Davenport argues for the relevance of cybernetics to the project of developing a communism that transcends the modernist project. Read Article.
Letter from a French Prison by Antonin Bernanos
Joe Hayns, May 15, 2020
This essay, written by anti-fascist militant Antonin Bernanos while in a French prison, provides an important perspective on the relation between the state and organized fascism in France. Bernanos was arrested in April 2019 and released mid-November. Translation and introduction by Joe Hayns. Read Article.
A Critical History of Management Thought
Jean Allen, May 8, 2020
Can capitalist management thought provide solutions to the problems of the socialist movement? Jean Allen urges doubt and skepticism in this critical review of Morgan Witzel’s A History Of Management Thought. Read Article.
Against Socialist Reactionaries: a response to Jacob Richter
Rosa Janis, May 4, 2020
Rosa Janis responds to Jacob Richter's April 9th, 2020 letter to Cosmonaut on social conservatism and the left. Read Article.
Toward the Mass Strike: Interview with Two Southern Organizers
Marisa Miale, April 29, 2020
Marisa Miale interviews Kali Akuno and Adam Ryan, labor organizers in the south, on class struggle in the era of COVID-19. Read more about Cooperation Jackson here and Target Workers Unite here. Read Article.
Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism in the Second International
Donald Parkinson, April 18, 2020
Karl Marx's own ambiguous and sometimes contradictory views on colonialism meant that the Second International would debate over the correct view on the matter. Donald Parkinson gives an overview of these debates, arguing that Communists today must unite around a clear anti-colonial and anti-imperialist program. Read Article.
Freedom in Death: Liberalism and the Apocalypse
Medway Baker, April 14, 2020
Medway Baker calls for uncompromising faith in the cause of communism in the face of a capitalist civilization that is destroying humanity. Read Article.