Beyond Eurocentrism: on José Carlos Mariátegui
Aníbal Quijano, the renowned Peruvian scholar, died last month. Here she introduces José Carlos Mariátegui’s essential writings on socialist politics and culture, underscoring the powerful influence that Mariátegui held over the theoretical development of Latin American critical thought.
Mistaking Identity Politics: A Conversation with Asad Haider (Part I)
"We can't decide in the abstract which of any social relations is more determinant in any particular social phenomenon...we can't just say: race, class, which one is more important?"
Mistaking Identity Politics: A Conversation with Asad Haider (Part II)
"We have to come back to the straightforward explanation that this is a society which is structured by racial oppression and has been for its entire history."
Mistaken Identity
by Asad Haider
A powerful challenge to the way we understand the politics of race and the history of anti-racist struggle.
Fury and Euphoria: A Declaration from Ni Una Menos to Our Feminist Comrades Around the World
The battle for legal abortion in Argentina is the starting point of a much broader struggle.
Politics in the Streets
While the revival of reformist social democracy is cause for optimism, it cannot win a new world without mass pressure from below.
The Nicaraguan Crisis and the Manicheanism of the US Left
Washington's primary interest in Nicaragua is not getting rid of Ortega but in preserving the interests of transnational capital in the country and the hegemony of capital over any post-Ortega political project.
Elaine Mokhtefi in Post-Independence Algeria
How did a young American woman, born to a secular, working-class New York Jewish family and raised during the Depression, end up in Algiers during a heady period of revolutionary fervor?
Smash The Fash Reading List
A reading list to engage with issues concerning the rise of the far-right, and the means of defending against it.
