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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.
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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.
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In “OF,” Palestinian poet and performance artist Fargo Tbakhi seethes against the violence of Israeli occupation and honors the vitality of Palestinian culture and resistance.
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Protean publisher Steven Monacelli managed to infiltrate a Dallas QAnon convention. He found that not only did it resemble a particularly warped evangelical religious revival, but also that the movement continues to come alarmingly close to actual power.
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Matt Hartman reviews Destin Jenkins’s The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City, out from the University of Chicago Press, which explores how bond structures shaped cities and allowed financiers to profit from poverty.
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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?
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Mikhayla Robinson’s poem “Nina Simone Sings at My Funeral” celebrates the bonds forged by shared song, even in grief.
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Today’s poem, “abhaya mudra” by Zoey Greenwald, explores how faith and ancestral memory endure through the language of the body.
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Poet Steven Lazarov’s “ACAB” is a provocation hurled at the cops: “melt your badge & gun, burn your uniform.”
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“Philadelphia,” by Ryan Boyd, is a brief lyric montage of urban solitude.
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