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Joe Biden: The Making of a Neoliberal
Joe Biden is someone who, by virtue of the political, social, and historical forces that shaped his life, made choices and drew political lessons that not only make him ill-suited to combat Trumpism but led him to help engineer the very conditions that handed Trump victory in the first place.
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The myth of immigration as a security issue
How did security become the rallying cry for the US government to restrict immigration in the post-war period?
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The radical origins of international Indigenous representation
Physical extermination and the repression of Indigenous political power verified the United States’ genocidal intent. From the severed stump began to regrow the tree of life—the tree of resistance that would blossom into revolt decades later.
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Caronang
A story about a dog-life creature who takes on all too human qualities, from Eka Kurniawan's short story collection Kitchen Curse, translated from the Indonesian by Tiffany Tsao.
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Playing the Whore, The Work
In Playing the Whore, sex workers' demands, too long relegated to the margins, take center stage: sex work is work, and sex workers' rights are human rights.
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Failing to Plan: How Ayn Rand Destroyed Sears
In People's Republic of Walmart, Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski argue that planning on vast scales is possible, and it works. But when Sears's Ayn Rand-loving owner introduced internal markets because he was so horrified at central planning inside capitalist firms, things quickly fell apart.
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What is urban planning’s role in the maintenance of capitalism?
In his new book Capital City, Sam Stein describes how one of the tasks of urban planners is to make capitalist development appear to be in the rational best interests of workers and bosses alike.
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Blockades and Border Walls
Are we in the early history of climate riots? What is already apparent is the state’s willingness to seize this situation on behalf of capital and of its own consolidation of power, a Green Nationalism which leverages climate management regimes toward hard borders, xenophobic violence, differential citizenship, protectionist labor pacts, further intensifications of militarization and surveillance.
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Fanon and (digital) self-determination
We need to wrest digital self-determination from surveillance capitalism and the state. How can the work of Frantz Fanon help us in this struggle?
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How to live an anti-fascist life
"It was as if decades of theorizing fascism—as an ideology, or a tendency, a practice, something that never quite disappeared —had been erased overnight and all that mattered in the media frenzy was delineating Trump’s similarities and differences to Hitler or Mussolini."
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A history of council housing in 10 buildings
From the first ever council estate in Shoreditch, to Ernő Goldfinger's privatised masterpiece, these buildings represent one of the most important struggles of our times – the drive for decent housing for all.
