Adam Fleming Petty reviews Spencer Ackerman’s Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump.
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Two Poems by Margaret Randall
We’re thrilled to publish two new poems by Margaret Randall, “Still Life, Winter 2021” and “I Pick Away.” These pieces reflect Randall’s lifelong commitment to working class politics, Marxist Feminism, and revolution in Latin America.
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A History of Palestine in Song
Palestinian music scholar Rami Soudah compiles a chronology of Palestine’s resistance music. Poets and musicians in Palestine have long expressed their depths of loss and nostalgia through verse and song, and artists in the broader Arab world have joined them, producing music of solidarity.
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Liv Grace i wish i could write poetry that feels like the cold knife of your body against mine in the parking lot when i was 19 and had 12 dollars to my name after tips and you whispered my shift schedule in my ear while you sliced at my thigh and my breast…
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Beneath the Cluttered Homes, the Beach?
Matthew Sekellick, in this essay from our second issue, interrogates the pathologized behavior of “hoarding” and the tensions in its relationship to consumption under capitalism.
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laundry day––
Dispoems’s “laundry day––” imagines an insurgent Lacandon Rainforest revolting against Guatemala’s ruling classes.
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wealthbelly and the thick of it
Today’s poem, Donovan Munro’s “wealthbelly and the thick of it,” deconstructs the image of the “fat cat” capitalist, challenging the association between fat bodies and capital accumulation.
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Laziness Does Not Exist: An Interview with Dr. Devon Price
Robert Raymond interviews Dr. Devon Price on their book Laziness Does Not Exist, out from Atria Books. How has capitalist ideology constructed and profited from our ideas of productivity and idleness?
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How Brazil Legalized the Annihilation of the Amazon Rainforest
Lobato Felizola reports from Brazil: Bolsonaro and agribusiness are pushing bills in Congress to further legalize the destruction of the Amazon. This system of fraud and rampant exploitation is incentivized by U.S. corporations.
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transubstantiation
Poet Gabrielle Spear’s “transubstantiation” reimagines Biblical narrative as a way to mourn the occupation of Palestine.
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