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Palestine became a microcosm of the US-led imperial structure. Fundamentally, anti-Muslim racism took hold in the US because it offered a systematic framework for working through and responding to the problem of surplus populations at the core of the neoliberal world
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Policing the Wastelands - Salvage
This piece appears in print in Salvage 14: Shrouded in Darkness. Issue 14 is available to buy individually here. Our poetry, fiction and art remains exclusive to the print edition, and our subscribers...
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June 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Bu bölümde İzmir grevinden yola çıkıyor ve tarihte işçi hareketinin farklı dönemlerinde, burjuva toplumunda demokrasinin kökenleri, dinamikleri nelerdir sorusuna cevap arıyoruz
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İşçi Sınıfı ve Demokrasi
İzmir grevinden yola çıkıyor ve tarihte işçi hareketinin farklı dönemlerinde, burjuva toplumunda demokrasinin kökenleri, dinamikleri nelerdir sorusunu cevaplıyoruz.
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June 10, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Hani şu "sağ ne yaparsa yapsın kültürel hegemonya kuramayacaktır" laflarını edenlere, İzmir'deki grev dolayısıyla, hem de "muhalif" kesimlerde gündeme gelen yaygın işçi ve grev düşmanlığını, grev kırıcılığını göstermeli, hatırlatmalı. Sağ yapmış işte yapacağını, daha ne yapsın...
June 2, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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İzmir'deki greve dönük aleni işçi düşmanlığı, sosyalistlerin rejim karşıtı demokratik muhalefeti büyütmek için mücadele ederken aynı zamanda bu genel muhalefet içerisinde bir hegemonya mücadelesi vermesi gerekliliğinin neden ertelenemez önemde bir husus olduğunu acı bir biçimde hatırlatıyor
June 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Gezi’nin bir an için yapabildiği, bir siyasal stratejiye dönüştürülemedi. Gezi’den “mahalle sınırlarını” ihlal eden plebyen bir istibdat karşıtlığı çıkmadı. Zaten sonra da stratejik tartışma yerini, “bunlar bi gitsin de gerisine bakarız” aşamacılığına bıraktı
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Gezi ve yenilginin diyalektiği - Evrensel
Sorun, Gezi’nin yenilmiş olması değil elbet. Tarihimiz mağlupların tarihidir. Tek, son, geri döndürülemez, nihai yenilgi yoktur.
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May 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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The Chinese revolution of 1925-7 exposed the contradiction between bourgeois nationalist movements and hope that they could be revolutionary. The bourgeois movement which does not fear the arousal of the mass of the exploited is not to be found in the 20th century
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The comintern: colonialism, nationalism and imperialism • International Socialism
In 1919, the Communist International, or Comintern, was founded in high hopes that the Russian Revolution would spread globally.1 The focus was on western Europe with its mass working-class movement. ...
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May 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Gazze’deki soykırım, İsrail’in yerleşimci sömürgecilik projesinin bir devamı elbette. Ancak bu girişimin sonuçlarının “orada”, uzakta, sömürgede kalacağını sanmak en hafif tabirle gaflet olacaktır
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Gazze: Soykırım Aynasında “Faşizm” ve Direniş - #ayrım
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May 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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"Bırak ölüler kendi ölülerini gömsünler".
Marx'ta ölüler ve gelenek üzerine:
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Marx'ın düşüncesinde ölüler, gelenek ve hafıza
Hakikatin Hikâyesi · Episode
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May 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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The chainsaw is not simply a metaphor. It is the logic of a new far-right wave of anarcho-authoritarian neoliberalism spreading across Latin America, North America, and Europe. As if hypnotized by a viral meme, even the center-left has been drawn in
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The Chainsaw International - Boston Review
From Trump to Milei, the far right is betting that spectacles of revenge will compensate for steep economic sacrifice.
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May 9, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Chauvinistic nationalism and racist are already in power, and we are supposed to add to this by seeking to mobilize “patriotic” sentiments?We will not be among those who, in a context of fascism make the national flag and the homeland a rallying point
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Rêver en matérialistes internationalistes - CONTRETEMPS
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May 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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The Republic of Texas was a proto-fascist state which was the basis for the Confederacy, Jim Crow, and later imperial adventures in Africa. It was here that the seeds were planted and watered for the twenty first century flowering of US fascism
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Fascism Late, Early; Fascists Now, Then | The Brooklyn Rail
During the Trump era, when troops of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, Proud Boys, MAGA hats, militiamen, and Men’s Rights Activists descended on my city, there was little debate about what to call them:...
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May 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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The far right is less neoliberalism’s antithesis—a horde of enemies coming in from the countryside with torches and pitchforks—than neoliberalism’s children, nurtured from decades of conversations and debates about what fixes capitalism needs to survive.
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Free Markets and Fixed Natures - Boston Review
How neoliberals fell in love with “human nature”—the glue that still unites the divergent factions of the new right.
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May 8, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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The privilege of sectarian incomprehension and egotism belong to the petty spirits, who lack horizons and wings, and the dogmatic mentalities, which desire to petrify and immobilize life inside of a rigid formula
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'The United Front' by Jose Carlos Mariategui
Translation and introduction by Renato Flores.
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May 7, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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We are not up against adversaries we have seen before. We are up against end times fascism. The governing ideology of the far right in our age of escalating disasters has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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May 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Bugün Apaçık Radyoda Marx'ın düşüncesinde ölülerin ve geleneğin konumuna dair dilim döndüğünce bir giriş yapmaya çalıştım. Meraklısına:
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Marx'ın düşüncesinde ölüler, gelenek ve hafıza
Marx'ın düşüncesinde ölüler, gelenek ve hafıza üzerine konuşuyoruz.
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May 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Sırrı Süreyya Önder'in hayattayken yaptıkları elbet hep anılacak. Ama o cansız bedeniyle bile halkı Taksim'e çıkardı, Gezi'nin önündeki barikatları yıktı ve son yılların en büyük barış eylemini gerçekleştirdi, barış talebinin toplumsallaşmasının, sokakta haykırılmasının önemini hatırlattı
May 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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If we could ask the great communist historian Eric Hobsbawm why he wanted his ashes, identical to everyone else’s ashes, buried—at great expense—in a large tomb near Marx his answer would have been that he wanted to be with his comrades
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Booked: The Living Dead - Dissent Magazine
An interview with Thomas Laqueur about his book The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains.
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May 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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We cannot simply let the dead bury their dead; we have to find a way of incorporating the dead into Marxist politics. Without this we would, in effect, be abandoning the dead to conservatism (at best) and fascism (at worst).
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Mark Neocleous · Let the dead bury their dead: Marxism and the politics of redemption (2004)
Let the dead bury their dead Marxism and the politics of redemption Mark neocleous Early in the Eighteenth Brumaire Marx makes the following comment: the social revolution of the nineteenth century ca...
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May 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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There is no shortcut. An ecosocialist strategy of rupture involves the struggle for the formation of a popular power, fighting for a transition plan, emanating from the self-activity, control, and direct intervention of the exploited and oppressed
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Manifesto for an ecosocialist revolution – Break with capitalist growth
IntroductionThis Manifesto is a document of the Fourth International, founded in 1938 by Leon Trotsky and his comrades to save the legacy of the October Revolution from Stalinist disaster. Rejecting s...
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May 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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19 Mart sonrasında gelişen hareketin zaaf ve potansiyelleri üzerine notlar:
ayrimdergi.bsky.social Ayrım @ayrimdergi.bsky.social · Apr 29
“Bu yenişememe halini aşmanın tek yolu, ‘sokaktaki’ öfkenin örgütlenmesi, yapılara kavuşması, tepkiden harekete, gerçek anlamda toplumsal muhalefete dönüşmesi.”

Foti Benlisoy - 19 Mart, Sokak ve Örgütlenme
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19 Mart, Sokak ve Örgütlenme - #ayrım
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April 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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“Bu yenişememe halini aşmanın tek yolu, ‘sokaktaki’ öfkenin örgütlenmesi, yapılara kavuşması, tepkiden harekete, gerçek anlamda toplumsal muhalefete dönüşmesi.”

Foti Benlisoy - 19 Mart, Sokak ve Örgütlenme
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19 Mart, Sokak ve Örgütlenme - #ayrım
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April 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Over the next 100 years half of the Earth’s species, representing a quarter of the planet’s genetic stock, will completely or functionally disappear. The land and the oceans will continue to teem with life, but it will be a homogenized assemblage of organisms
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End of the Wild - Boston Review
The extinction crisis is over. We lost.
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April 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Rejim 19 Mart sonrası beklenmedik toplumsal patlamanın genişliği ve yaygınlığı karşısında afallamış olsa da iç tutunumunu ve bütünlüğünü yitirmiş değil. Kitle hareketi rejimi kısmen geri adım atmaya zorlayabilse de henüz onu yenilgiye uğratabilecek bir gelişkinlikte de değil
April 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Gramsci’s insight that socialism should strive to foster our animality seems to us a truer and more profound endeavour
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Unbuilding Italy
Rare amongst Marxist theorists, Antonio Gramsci saw ‘the history of industrialism’ less as a tale of progress than as a ‘struggle […] against the element of “animality” in man’.  In this way Gramsci d...
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April 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Taiwan has been part of multiple imperial formations, making it possible to imagine and project many different ideas of “empire” onto it
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Semiconductor Island - Boston Review
The colonial making of Taiwan’s chip supremacy.
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April 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM