All articles filed in Critique & Essays

C.M. Lewis of Strikewave draws on Rosa Luxemburg and Irish socialist James Connolly to revisit the debate around sectoral bargaining, pointing to weak spots in the modern left’s understandings that are inimical to building working-class power.

M.K. Anderson discusses the merits and limitations of the social model of disability and considers the challenges that even a better society could face in furnishing accommodations.

The latest round of Israeli strikes on Gaza are cause for reflection on Jewishness and nationalism, writes Shane Burley. How have evangelical Zionists and the Western and Israeli far right hijacked narratives of Jewish identity and warped their universal, liberatory message?

Earlier this year, Luke O’Neil wrote on witnessing the pandemic, the unfolding vaccination process, and the indignity and cruelty of systemic American neglect. This essay is a preview selection from our third print edition.

Online communities of avid shoplifters see theft from corporations as not only personally beneficial, but morally justified, with some claiming the practice as an expression of an anti-capitalist ethos, writes Robert Raymond.

A recent Atlantic article by an economist, Emily Oster, badly misconstrued COVID risks. Such individual-centric analyses obscure social harms and disparities, write epidemiologists Abigail Cartus, Justin Feldman, and Seth J. Prins.

Kim Kelly marks the one-year anniversary of her grandfather’s passing with a reflection on his life, and a condemnation of the workplace conditions that led to his death. This piece appears in our third print edition.

Caitlin Myers writes from Knoxville, TN: where hospitals shutter in record numbers, anti-maskers protest the Board of Health, and the self-described anarcho-capitalist county mayor is Glenn Jacobs, better known as WWE superstar Kane.

In “To Survive Snow Duty,” John Tormey reflects on his work clearing snow on the rail lines in a Massachusetts winter—what it means to labor daily in the punishing cold, to sacrifice the body to the demands of a job.

C.M. Lewis of Strikewave defines the strike and assesses its role in the modern-day labor field. How can we conceive of the strike more expansively to win lasting working-class power?