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The Alternative in Shreds

Is there still time – or, indeed, is it already time – to revisit communism?
The Ukrainian ‘Gold Rush’

“The imperative of the US military-industrial complex is not to prepare for war, but to perpetuate and amplify the flow of public money in its direction.”
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Demonstration called in London to protest the treatment of Ernest, foreign rights manager for the French publisher Editions La Fabrique and Alain Damasio (Editions La Volte) by British police.
A wise government should beware of scorning social dialogue

The legal scholar Alain Supiot, in an article for Le Monde, warns that in claiming the legitimacy of the ballot box against the street, the government’s strategy in the conflict over pension reform is deceitful. The collective action of workers, constitutive of social citizenship, is complementary to democratic life and essential to it.
100 Years of the Institute for Social Research

An interview with director of the Institute for Social Research, Stephan Lessenich, about the tradition and future of a critical theory of society.
Sowing Seeds of Change, Empire be Damned

Frantz Fanon believed in the power and potential peasants have to change the world. 60 years after the English release of his ground-breaking text The Wretched of the Earth––and to mark this year’s International Day of Peasant Struggle––Levi Gahman and Johannah-Rae Reyes offer a three-part commentary on why we should too.
From Churches to Lifehouses

Adam Greenfield, author of Radical Technologies, makes a radical proposition of what to do with the thousands of empty churches in the UK and US. Lifehouses can become the centre of a radical reimagining of what makes a community, and where it comes together.
A revolutionary party is a way to f*** everything up, methodically

Frédéric Lordon explains why the current moment necessitates a revolutionary party – an organization whose goal is to destroy existing capitalist institutions.
The Socialist Debate over the Mass Strike

The great debate that shaped socialist practice in the 1890s and the early twentieth century centered on the question of the role of the “mass” or “general” strike in struggles against capitalist hegemony.
The Mutilated World

AI-generated images proliferate online, spreading through diverse political ecosystems and flourishing in the darkest corners of the internet. But, as A.V. Marraccini writes, what would it mean to create the plan of a real city from AI images, and how could we think through its politics?
Stone Age Daydreams

More and more people are giving up on work and modern society in order to live off-grid, and resurrecting ideas long associated with anarcho-primitivism. But, what does this impasse tell us about the state of the left today?
The solution to police failure is not more police

The recently published report of the Casey Review into the internal culture of the Metropolitan Police has revealed the deep institutional failures of British policing. Calls in response for more police will only make the problems worse.