Who Are the Workers, and Why Does it Matter?
Gary Levi, March 15, 2024
Gary Levi responds to Joshua Lew McDermott's “Two Myths About the Working Class,” arguing against dogmatist conceptions and articulating the conditions of ongoing class development. Read Article.
The Carnage in Gaza is the Last, Desperate Act
Yoav Haifawi, March 8, 2024
Yoav Haifawi argues that the ongoing brutality in Gaza is the final effort in a failed Israeli-U.S. attempt to preserve hegemony over the Middle East. Read Article.
Hamas: From Candidate Enforcer to Implacable Foe
Assaf Kfoury, March 1, 2024
Assaf Kfoury covers the history of Hamas from its origins as a politically quietist Islamic charitable society to its transformation into an armed national liberation group, arguing that this development is, in part, the unintended result of the Israeli state's own policies. Read Article.
Sino-Palestinian Relations: From Anti-Imperialist Solidarity to Pragmatism
Mark Reid, February 23, 2024
Mark Reid traces the history of diplomacy between post-Revolutionary China, the Palestinian liberation movement, and Israel, arguing that the PRC’s current status-quo position on the region is the result of its deepening economic ties with Israel and its oil-dependency on the Gulf states. Read Article.
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Democratic Constitution Ideology
Luke Pickrell, February 21, 2024
Only by studying the past through the lens of democratic republican ideology can we complete King’s unfinished business, argues Luke Pickrell, in an analysis of Martin Luther King Jr.'s political legacy. Read Article.
New Life for the Old Lenin
Paul LeBlanc, February 14, 2024
Cosmonaut Magazine prints Cliff Connolly's remarks from two panels in 2023 on Lenin's political legacy. Read Article.
On Capitalism and Class Rule: Moving Beyond the “PMC Debate"
Foppe de Haan, February 9, 2024
Using recent debates over the role of the professional managerial class as a foil, Foppe de Haan argues that in order for the communist movement to transcend the failures of the past, it must go beyond the struggle against capitalism and call for an end to any and all forms of class rule. Read Article.
Marx, Faraday, and the Spectral Objectivity of Value
Ian Wright, February 7, 2024
What can Victorian table-turning tell us about Marx's theory of value? Ian Wright investigates. Read Article.
End of the Line
Javier Clark, January 31, 2024
Javier Clark illustrates the contemporary social production of "non-subjects" and the conditions under which they evade traditional revolutionary formulae. Read Article.
Monotheism and Struggle: The Story of Iraqi Insurgency (2003-04)
Rob Ashlar, January 29, 2024
In the first of a multi-part series, Rob Ashlar surveys the history of Iraqi Insurgency from 1990 to 2004. Read Article.