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Capital and Covid-19: Robert Brenner, Wolfgang Streeck, Roberto Schwarz, Lorna Finlayson, and more

In an open letter to theorist Sylvia Wynter on Wynter's text "1492: A New World View," Ariella Aïsha Azoulay  retrieves memories of her Jewish family's Arabness: "I refuse to become a memory-less Jew, whose life was mutated and reformatted to begin only with the creation of the nation-state."

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Gazelle Mba on the pernicious myth of Britain's 'covert' racism.

The last of three interviews with trans retail workers in New York, conducted by Pinko, a biannual magazine of gay communism. 

What about the role of women in the Sex Offense movement and their relationship to feminism, victims’ rights organizations, and survivors themselves? That role and that relationship are surprising and complex. For while there are many men in both the leadership and the rank and file—and of course, the objects of the laws are almost all men—the registrants’ rights movement is a women’s movement.  

Fully Automated Luxury Communism began with Karl Marx. Now, over 150 years later, an opulent post-work society is more possible than ever before.

The second of three interviews with trans workers in retail in New York, conducted by Pinko, a biannual magazine of gay communism. 

The political prisoner has played a central role in the history of modern liberation struggles, argues Angela Davis. 

Jean-Luc Nancy and Jean-François Bouthors on the revolutionary potential of the pandemic

The first of three interviews with trans workers in retail in New York, conducted by Pinko, a biannual magazine of gay communism. 

Historians and sociologists of race and racism have charted the origins and development of racism through the theorisation of race and racial differences in Europe, and among the intellectual establishment, since the sixteenth century.