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May 19, 2020 
Let’s be comrades
Comrades: An Essay on Political Belonging by Jodi Dean (Verso, 2019). I’ll admit it: after ten years as an organized socialist, I’ve only recently warmed…
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May 5, 2020
Basic Income: A critical reader
As the economic crisis deepens in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic many are looking for solutions. The immediate and serious challenges faced by workers…
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May 4, 2020
Black feminist thought: Lessons from the 1970s
Over 40 years later, this text remains essential reading for anyone serious about building a multi-racial, international, working-class movement that could actually challenge rule by the one percent.
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April 28, 2020
‘We’re Burnin’ gas and Terrorizing’: Molly Rhythm – Dark Matters
If there is a trend among the music I’ve listened to in 2020, it’s one that really emphasizes mutual aid and goes deep into the…
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April 27, 2020
Pandemic reading list
Stuck at home? Tired of talking to the same person every day or alone and talking to the walls? Watched everything on Netflix or not…
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April 22, 2020
Planning the next economy
The People’s Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski (Verso, 2019) As COVID-19 engulfs the globe, the perpetual tension within capitalism between private…
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April 10, 2020
A life saved, and lived, by solidarity
Holocaust to Resistance: My Journey by Suzanne Weiss (Roseway, 2019) Suzanne Weiss begins her recent memoir with these words by W. B. Yeats: “There are…
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April 6, 2020
‘I’m Overwhelmed, what can I do?’ The Suicide Machines – Revolution Spring
It would be through no fault of your own if you thought ska-punk went the way of chain wallets and MTV-produced movies. The genre itself…
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March 6, 2020
Feminism for the 99%
Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser (Verso, 2019) Always shape-shifting, capitalism has recently assumed a new form:…
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February 18, 2020
‘Carried out on Resistance Frequencies:’ Anti-Flag – 20/20 Vision
Pennsylvania punk rockers, Anti-Flag, are celebrating nearly 30 years of music by releasing their 13th studio album, 20/20 Vision. Anti-Flag have been producing top-notch melodic…
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February 4, 2020
Communist organizing against legal lynching in the 1930s
Black Communists Speak on Scottsboro: A Documentary History by Walter T. Howard (Temple University Press. 2007). On March 25, 1931, police in Alabama arrested nine…
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January 29, 2020
A common sense call to climate rebellion
People have the ability to take a lot of shit. The planet is a little bit similar, having struggled along since the industrial revolution despite…
