An independent, ad-free leftist magazine of critical essays, poetry, fiction, and art.
M.K. Anderson I’m writing this before the Thanksgiving holiday. The graph of U.S. COVID infection rates isn’t quite at an exponential vertical, but it’s approaching it. Joe Biden, as part of his transition, has finally released his COVID response plan. The high-level summary: keeping the public informed, ensuring supply chains for personal protective equipment are…
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Today we’re sitting down with Sango, a comrade who has been on the frontlines in the battle against police brutality in the ongoing uprising in Nigeria. We dug into the SARS units of Nigeria, discussed the EndSARS movement and began to imagine what a brighter future might look like. You can learn more about The Movement…
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by Isaac Pickell: if black were human / it would be already / if you were breathing / you would be all ready
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by C.M. Lewis. Even aside from the downballot electoral failures of the Democratic Party, the election revealed an unsettling truth: 70 million Americans voted for Donald Trump, having lived through four years of his vicious, proto-fascist sideshow, and many of them are increasingly concentrated in rural counties.
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by Devyn Springer: the apocalypse was rhodesia was israel / was the united east india company / was new zealand and australia / was jim crow and jim jones
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Shane Burley interviews Vicky Osterweil about her book, which examines the concept of looting and how it takes back power by shifting the context of spaces, material wealth, and community. What does looting mean in an uprising like we’re experiencing, and why has her defense caused such a panic?
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by Jonah Goldman Kay. Louisiana residents often depend on mutual aid to help rebuild communities after devastating hurricanes. But in a deeply conservative region, it often comes as a surprise to residents that this kind of aid might also be coming from socialists.
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by Khalypso: no & i have only just considered stopping. / it doesn’t hurt enough. the pain has only just settled / into the grooves—maybe there’s spendable gold
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by Whitney Curry Wimbish. Connie practiced her gratitude meditation as she drove home. If she listed everything to be grateful for, she would see how rich she really was, and she would get happier and happier. She tried to think of every single thing, right down to the fact of her existence. To life itself!
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by Saritha Ramakrishna. In the foreword to Welcome to Hell World, Luke O’Neil admits that he does not know what his book is. It covers a lot: loneliness and addiction in all their forms, absurdity and cruelty and how they’re often paired together, people as soft matter shredded by this nation’s exploitative system.
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