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  • No War But Class War

    No War But Class War

    We must renew our understanding of our class belonging and of how we go to war – because that is the only way we are going to win.
  • Quick Fixes: a Letter from the Editor

    Quick Fixes: a Letter from the Editor

    "Beneath the bright descriptions, interesting contradictions and energetic prose, lurks an impressive materialist account of drugs and American capitalism."
  • The Nightmare and Dream of Autonomous Policing

    The Nightmare and Dream of Autonomous Policing

    Despite a wave of criticism, both the NYPD and LAPD have moved forward with plans to implement Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicles – more commonly referred to as "Robot Police Dogs" – into their departments' fleets. In this excerpt from After Black Lives Matter, Cedric G. Johnson breaks down the implications of such a move.
  • After Work: a Letter from the Editor

    After Work: a Letter from the Editor

    "Study after study over the last century has confirmed again and again: technology has not reduced the amount of time spent on domestic labour in the home. How can that be true?"

  • We're So Glad It's You

    We're So Glad It's You

    As Adolph Reed wrote in 2014, liberals don't believe in politics anymore, only bearing witness to suffering. Here, former US diplomat Josef Burton asks what the moral universe of contemporary liberalism consists of when all hope for change is foreclosed.
  • Herbert Marcuse and 'cultural Marxism'

    Herbert Marcuse and 'cultural Marxism'

    "Using the term ‘cultural Marxism’, and the failure to dutifully apprehend its meaning, may allude to a wider Brexit culture war within which anti-Semitic tropes can be subsumed." Patrick Garratt looks into the origins of the anti-semitic trope, and the relevance of Marcuse’s social theory in the new era of ‘culture wars’.