Archive of Riot. Strike. Riot

Are we in the early history of climate riots? What is already apparent is the state’s willingness to seize this situation on behalf of capital and of its own consolidation of power, a Green Nationalism which leverages climate management regimes toward hard borders, xenophobic violence, differential citizenship, protectionist labor pacts, further intensifications of militarization and surveillance.

Don't get tide down in apathy. Dive into our alternative beach reading and spend the summer dreaming about life after capitalism!

50% off our May Day reading! Includes new reading from Bhaskar Sunkara, Nancy Fraser, and Eric Blanc.

50% off for this made-up holiday; Red to inspire rebellion and revolution!

A reading list on working-class power, elections, and left-wing strategy.

Much has been written about the gilets jaunes and their relation to both politics, of the left and the right, and historical waves of labour unrest. In this article, Joshua Clover argues that the gilets jaunes are in fact a texbook example of a contemporary riot, and may be best seen as an early example of an approaching wave of climate riots.

How do we think through the relation between race and class in capitalism? Responding to the recent intervention of Adolph Reed, Joshua Clover and Nikhil Pal Singh argue that, following Stuart Hall, race is the modality in which class is lived and that only by capturing the fundamental social experience of the unity of race and class can we avoid the pitfalls of separating them analytically and falling into "bothandism".

May 1968 stands at the precipice into which the historical labor movement will descend.