Essays & Analysis, Interviews & Panels, People’s History – analytical, historical, theoretical, cerebral, literal, somewhat more composed approaches to truth-telling.
If the relatively small number of refugees can be used today as an excuse for restricting freedom of movement, building walls and impenetrable borders, increasing the powers of the security state, and fomenting divisions based on race, religion, or national origin, what will tomorrow bring when the effects of climate change and ecological collapse cause vast movements of people around the globe?
Syria, Refugees, and Solidarity Read More »
Neoliberals were not only clueless about the extent to which markets never really worked the way they described in their ideal. They were also clueless about the political, social, cultural, and theological ramifications of a radically marketized world in which we have not justice, not democracy, but only winners and losers.
Markets, Morals, and the Neoliberal Assault on Democracy Read More »
Meth is an indicator of a toxic sensibility that dominates the way we live, in an embodied sense, as subjects of late capitalism.
Cooking for Capitalism Read More »
This is not itself a revolution; it’s just an alternative. But an alternative economy, milieu, society, and politics is quite important for creating a revolution. Squats can be a material, solid, and enduring space for providing and creating these prefigurations of a better world.
“There are seeds of revolution in a squat.” Read More »
Even if the Sámi here are pushing for a greater consciousness of what Norwegians are doing abroad, there is still the minister of finance dressing up like Pocahontas.
Norway’s Carbon Cowboys Read More »
Legal or not, we will never stop trying to fly, free like the birds in the sky.
Refugee Lessons: Greece 2019 Read More »
Organizing outside of American nationalism means organizing with an increasingly international consciousness regarding the working class and proletariat on a global scale, and finding ties with projects and efforts that are happening throughout the world.
Against Economic Nationalism: “The working class does not have a country.” Read More »
In several districts, local councilors practically took on the role of city councilors while current deputies either hid from their voters or openly stood with the Moscow city government, as in the case of the planned property development at the enormous Bitsa park.
The Grassroots Insurgency in Moscow City Politics Read More »
Even if we are trained to ignore the embeddedness of human history within the ecosystems that give us the basis of our daily lives, it’s just a question of going back and reading history for that kind of information and for those kinds of relationships.
Pay Attention: A History, Future, and Politics of Living with the Earth Read More »
Muhammed Najem tells of life under siege with raw images showing the population’s suffering mixed with everyday moments of relative normality. He also accompanies these with comments full of sensitivity, tenderness, black humor, irony, and resilience.
A Teenager Photographs the Syrian War Read More »
