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To the Vatican with red flags
On 10 January 2024, Pope Francis received a private audience with a delegation of people who had been participating for several years in a dialogue between Marxists and Christians. Michael Löwy, who was in attendance, recounts the experience in detail. -
In Gaza, “This Isn’t Legitimate Self-Defence. It’s a Genocide”
In France, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has been accused of antisemitism for his opposition to Israel's relentless siege on Gaza. In this interview, Mélenchon explains why the Left must assert a universalist antiracism in the face of Europe's accelerating slide to the far right. -
The Jail is a Monster
Abolition requires we change one thing: everything. -
Testimonial 17: Daring to speak out for Palestine
British universities are targeting and punishing their students for expressing support for Palestinians. In Testimonial 17 of our Palestine Uncensored series, a medical student describes being suspended from their university as retribution for their public solidarity with Palestine. -
Søren Mau on Communism, Capitalism, and Social Democracy
Søren Mau discusses what communism might look like, as well as the key themes in his book Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital. -
E.P. Thompson, Maker of History
Though E.P. Thompson is recognized as one of the 20th century's great historians, during much of his life, "the writing of history took a back seat to the actual making of history." For the centenary of Thompson's birth, Julian Harber reflects on the lesser-known Edward as teacher and political activist. -
Fostering solidarity through cooperation
In the final instalment of our Own This! roundtable, Trebor Scholz responds to the previous contributions and lays out his vision for platform cooperativism going forward. -
Naïve and instrumentalized? Judith Butler on the Mayor of Paris's Cancellation of the Meeting Against Antisemitism and Its Instrumentalization
Judith Butler was planning to speak at a Palestine solidarity event in Paris in December until the city's mayor unilaterally cancelled it. Here, Butler describes the chain of events leading up to the cancellation and affirms the necessity of resisting political censorship around Palestine. -
Cooperating with cooperatives: how unions need to think Bigger
In part 4 of our Own This! roundtable, David O'Connell explores the relationship between trade unions and workers' cooperatives. -
About United Taxi Cooperative
Part 3 of our Own This! roundtable looks at the United Taxi Cooperative, a worker-governed to provide affordable dispatch services while generating new lines of business that honor drivers’ craft and relationships to San Diego communities. -
Imaginary
Drowning in a deluge of images without context, words without meaning, information without distinction—this is the subjective experience in an economy of immediacy.