The relevance of the topic here is obvious. We hope to publish more analytical and theoretical pieces on Occupy, which has emerged as the movement of this historical moment. This is reprinted from Viewpoint Magazine. Everybody talks about the weather By Asad Haider and Salar Mohandesi “Everybody talks about the weather. We don’t.” This 1968 poster [...]
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Forms of Organization: a pressing question for communists
A theoretical question which is clearly important but has so far not been broached on this site is that of political organization. Here too, old forms seem clearly insufficient, while new configurations have yet to be born. How to approach this question, given our present circumstances, is the subject of the following essay, republished in [...]
What is ‘the left’ and does it make sense to call on it to do something?
The following snippet is from an interview with Colin Leys conducted by Edward Lewis for New Left Project. (Colin Leys is an editor of the Socialist Register and author of a number of books.) EL: But…there will have been opportunities for the left to step in and develop a different discourse and programme, potentially? CL: [...]
‘Students of these movements, not their stupid professors’
What was it that began in Tunisia this year, and ramified in different forms across the Arab world? Is there a comparison to be drawn between these eruptions and the mass action we saw in the Wisconsin state capitol (which has also had its echos elsewhere? Too often the response to these upsurges has been a [...]
Do the beginnings of revolutionary change exist today?
We’ve posted a previous piece by William K. Carroll, on the transnational capitalist class question (a subject on which he has written a just-published book). In the following essay, though (republished from Interface: a journal for and about social movements), Carroll’s subject is what sort of movement, or counter-hegemonic bloc, will be necessary to break [...]
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