An independent, ad-free leftist magazine of critical essays, poetry, fiction, and art.

Sudip Bhattacharya is a New Jersey-based writer and doctoral candidate in Political Science at Rutgers University. His writing has been published at outlets such as Jacobin, Current Affairs, The Black Agenda Report, among other places.
  • this faith

    this faith

    Sudip Bhattacharya’s poem “this faith” fearlessly reckons with the contradictions of diasporic Hinduism –– from the Ganges to the Hudson river.

  • The First Strike: Rutgers Academics Against Precarity

    The First Strike: Rutgers Academics Against Precarity

    Sudip Bhattacharya, a researcher at Rutgers, reports on the recent labor action there. In the first strike of Rutgers’s 257 years, new solidarities emerged among not only precarious adjunct faculty and grad students, but also undergraduates, university employees, and beyond.

  • AAPI Month

    AAPI Month

    Sudip Bhattacharya’s poem “AAPI Month” asks us to remember, amid the pandemic’s enduring brutalities, the achievements of Vietnam’s anticolonial struggle.

  • Organizing Starbucks: Face Time with the Billionaire Boss

    Organizing Starbucks: Face Time with the Billionaire Boss

    Interviews with Starbucks union employees by Sudip Bhattacharya describe growing solidarity, company retaliation, and some bad-faith meetings with CEO Howard Schultz.

  • Collective Ambitions: Amazon Workers on Their Union Fight

    Collective Ambitions: Amazon Workers on Their Union Fight

    Sudip Bhattacharya’s interviews with workers at an Amazon facility in Staten Island reveal ruthless conditions, management’s overwhelming power—and how, despite that, they’ve found solidarity in organizing the Amazon Labor Union.

  • DoorDashing and Dreaming

    DoorDashing and Dreaming

    Sudip Bhattacharya reflects on life under austerity: amidst a built environment inscribed with inequality, a frustrated academic joins the gig economy to make ends meet.