“Where Are the People of Color?”
Guilt is a sad, passive emotion — and it won’t help us build a more diverse left.
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Identity Politics Is a Poor Substitute for Socialism
In No Politics but Class Politics, Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed show how an identity politics that obscures class politics and ignores economic inequality only makes the many miseries around us worse.
Toni Morrison and the Black Radical Tradition
Toni Morrison was widely praised in mainstream circles upon her death. But they failed to note the most enduring part of Morrison's legacy: her enormous contribution to the black radical tradition.
Put Washington Square Park’s “Piano Guy” on the City Payroll
If you’ve ever visited New York City’s Washington Square Park, chances are good you’ve seen and heard Colin Huggins playing classical music on his piano. Huggins is incredibly talented — and he’s also homeless. Why not make him a city employee?
In the “Renter From Hell” Narrative, Landlords Are the Real Victims
The COVID-19 era eviction moratorium has given rise to a new journalistic genre: the “renter from hell” narrative, portraying landlords as the real victims of the crisis.
“This Is a Systematic Problem With Policing in This Country”
Labour MP Dawn Butler talks about being stopped by the police, the far-right campaign of abuse which followed, and why she will keep fighting the racism that plagues policing in Britain.
Kinds of Kindness Is Teenage Nihilism for the Art House Crowd
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness is a nearly three-hour anthology film about the human capacity for cruelty. It’s exactly as fun as that sounds.
Straying From the Party Line
My last years in the USSR.
RIP James Earl Jones
Few American acting careers have made such lasting impressions on so many as James Earl Jones’s.
You Can’t Imagine Modern Cinema Without Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard was the last radical working in cinema during an era where the medium of movies still genuinely had the power to shock.
Fassbinder and the Red Army Faction
As his fellow West German radicals began to embrace violence in the 1970s, legendary filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder decided to celebrate another path for emancipation: class struggle in the workplace.
In the Streets of Moscow, Russians Are Shocked by Putin’s War
Vladimir Putin claims that he is “demilitarizing” Ukraine by invading it with tanks and bombs. In Moscow, ordinary Russians don’t understand what their government is planning — but they’re shocked by the assault on a neighboring country.
How Race Is Conjured
The fiction of race hides the real source of racism and inequity in America today.
Poland’s Abortion Wars
A proposed abortion ban in Poland would subject women to surveillance, criminalization, and even more economic hardship.
The Workers Behind Amazon’s Historic First Union Explain How They Did It
Staten Island Amazon workers endured thunderstorms, racism, and arrests to organize in break rooms, bus stops, and grocery aisles to win their union — and one of the world’s most powerful companies couldn’t stop them. Here’s how they did it.
A Place to Live For
The ongoing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan obscures the needs of workers in both countries.
Argentina’s Anticapitalist Feminism
A bill to legalize abortion narrowly failed in the Argentinian Senate. But feminist movements have already effected a social revolution in South America.
In Bulgaria, Mass Protests Are Confronting Domestic Violence
Last week saw protests in 40 towns across Bulgaria, after courts failed to convict a man who attacked his 18-year-old former partner with a knife. The case pointed to authorities’ failure to confront domestic violence — and the wider misogyny of public life.
The Zapatista Candidate
By participating in Mexico's 2018 election, the EZLN can bring its indigenous anticapitalist platform into mainstream politics.