There’s a dissonance at the heart of the labor movement. On the one hand, contemporary labor unions were built on the back of militant worker struggle. For example, the massive strikes of the 1930s built the backbone of the present-day AFL-CIO. Any particular long-standing union, if you go far enough back in its history, you’ll […]
The grotesque apologia for U.S. foreign policy that ferments in the cinema capital of the world, Hollywood, is as transparent in its depictions of the Vietnam War as it is in its depicting any other U.S.-backed or led imperialist misadventure. Even the ostensibly anti-Vietnam War films focus the sympathy of the viewer largely on the […]
By: Danielle Corcione, James Yeun, and Ariel Diliberto In the United States today, election results do not represent the will, or number, of the people who live here. Marginalized voters, year after year, are intentionally excluded from our so-called democratic process. Through voter suppression of marginalized people, voting in a capitalist system becomes of interest […]
By: Kate Doyle Griffiths and Gus Breslauer “Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family (FSN)” was released by Verso on May 7th, and there is no doubt that it is already a provocation to Marxists and feminists and to the Marxist-feminist canon. An opening book-length salvo in what will surely prove to be a defining 21st […]
Angela Eslava, CUNY student and activist, interviews three writers on gender about the Marxist transfeminist view on skirts and strikes! Andrea Long Chu’s ”On Liking Women,” as an entre to transfeminism and femininity. Not to be missed as an introduction to the new Queer theory of Social Reproduction, always eschewing the basic. Thanks to Doug […]