Only As Good As the Movement
Individual activists — no matter how talented — must depend on the movement they represent.
19831 Articles by: Alex Press
The Rise of the Voluntariat
Like unpaid interns, the “voluntariat” creates profits without being compensated, but out of a sense of altruism.
Invisible Sex Workers
Sex workers are somehow invisible when it comes to discerning the truth about their work. Yet clients, police, and others have no trouble finding them to pay, arrest, extort, rob, beat, or rape.
Adjusting to Apocalypse
Societies are going to adjust to climate change in some way — it’s up to us to push that transformation in a progressive direction.
Cuts and Scabs
A doctors’ strike could help save the United Kingdom’s National Health Service.
The Many Faces of the Indian Left
In India, even as prominent left parties falter, radicalism persists.
A Letter to New York City’s School Teachers
New York teachers should vote no on the proposed union contract — for love and for money.
Historical Materialism at Sixteen: An Interview with Peter D. Thomas
The longstanding Marxist conference is this weekend in Toronto.
Clarence Thomas’s Counterrevolution
Clarence Thomas has fused elements of black nationalism and a bleak view of black history with a steadfast Constitutional originalism.
A Challenge to Cuomo
“My name is Brian Jones, and I am seeking the Green Party’s nomination for Lieutenant Governor of the state of New York.”
American Philanthropy and its Discontents
Philanthropy thrills to begging and tolerates activism, but cannot abide a demand from those it wants to save.
How to Thank a Teacher
This week, thank a New York City teacher — by urging them to vote “no” on the United Federation of Teachers proposed contract.
Twenty Years of Defeat
Today, South Africans will likely reelect Jacob Zuma and his African National Congress. But the party of Nelson Mandela is losing ground.
Against Austerity
Austerity won’t bring us out of the crisis, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t rational for elites.
Springtime for Modi
Under Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s two main tenets are clear: neoliberal orthodoxy and violent Hindu nationalism.
An Unlikely Transgender Rights Vanguard
As necessary as queer legal protections are, we should be cautious of transgender equality by legislative interpretation.
Gary Becker, Pinochet, and the Chicago Boys
Becker thought Pinochet’s embrace of the Chicago School was “one of the best things that happened to Chile.”
Mad Men in a Mad World
Mad Men brilliantly shows the everyday cruelties of the old order, but insists that those who challenged them were fools.
How to Write a Marxist Critique of Thomas Piketty Without Actually Reading the Book
Capital in the Twenty-First Century is a long book, and you just don’t have time in your busy schedule to finish it and formulate a materialist critique. We’ve got you covered.
$14.95 Subscriptions and Some May Day News
By 2036, we’ll move Labor Day to May 1. Maybe Christmas, as well, but these things take time.