19357 Articles by: T Rivers
T Rivers is a pseudonymous journalist who covers East and Central Africa.
Burn the Constitution
The pitfalls of constitutionalism.
“And Yet It Moves”
A new mass of students and workers are actively engaged in class struggle.
Book-Marx #8
Some of the world’s ills, explained.
Book-Marx #7
Because there’s a whole 14.6 percent of the internet not consumed with Charlie Sheen…
Book-Marx #6
Early 2011 provides hope for both the Arab masses and freelancers earning 30 pence a word scribbling away about “Twitter revolutions” for the Guardian.
Actually Existing Social Democracy
A review of Thomas Geoghegan’s Were You Born On The Wrong Continent?
Feel Good Zionism
A review of Yitzhak Laor’s The Myths of Liberal Zionism.
Let Them Eat Diversity
On the politics of identity.
Why We Loved the Zapatistas
The abandonment of Marxism had more than academic consequences.
Take This Job and Share It
The one-sided focus of most socialists on distributional questions has obscured the fact that the animating principle of the Left is not so much equality, but freedom.
Resenting Hipsters
The fetishization of work feeds the politics of resentment. It’s time to instead embrace the language of economic and social rights.
The Politics of Being Alone
Life as a solitary struggle.