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A popular media project for breaking free from the infernal prison of capital.

Issue 1 of our quarterly magazine will be released in June 2025. Support us and receive print copies by subscribing via Patreon.com/HeatwaveMag

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Heatwave is a new magazine for a world on fire. The editorial and our first article can be read online now, but subscribing to our Patreon gets you an Issue 1 hardcopy in June! A full PDF of Issue 1 will be available for everyone in September. Links below ~
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The main problem isn't that Western states are attacking countries in the Middle East and killing civilians (or that states like Canada and Ukraine made statements supporting those attacks), it's that sub-state leftists have bad ideas.
The moment Israel began bombing Iran, US left-wing organizations “wheeled out one regime apologist after another.” In “The Anti-Imperialist Imperialism Club,” Arya Zahedi argues that this “form of anti-imperialism is an incredible obstacle to building a renewed internationalism.”
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The moment Israel began bombing Iran, US left-wing organizations “wheeled out one regime apologist after another.” In “The Anti-Imperialist Imperialism Club,” Arya Zahedi argues that this “form of anti-imperialism is an incredible obstacle to building a renewed internationalism.”
November 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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In “Pumping Up the Revolt: The Serbian Uprising, Its Roots, and Its Discontents,” L.P. charts the possibilities and contradictions of the wave of protests, riots, strikes, and occupations that spread across Serbia beginning in late 2024. (Link at the end of this thread)
November 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
In “Pumping Up the Revolt: The Serbian Uprising, Its Roots, and Its Discontents,” L.P. charts the possibilities and contradictions of the wave of protests, riots, strikes, and occupations that spread across Serbia beginning in late 2024. (Link at the end of this thread)
November 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
We recently went on @varnvlog.bsky.social to chat about tariffs, Mexico, the poverty of the left, the refusal of easy answers, and our next issue, dropping soon. Watch or listen here:

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Varn Vlog: Heatwave Magazine on the Left's Hard Questions
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October 22, 2025 at 3:51 AM
If you enjoyed Hurricane Season, check out Jean Maro’s “What Was Recession Pop” from Heatwave Issue 1
Climate change has serious implications for Country music, Jean Maro tells us, teasing out the anxieties present in The Castellows' 2024 cover of Leon Everette's "Hurricane," a resuscitated hit that takes on an entirely new significance in the face of increasingly severe hurricane seasons
October 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
the PDF of Issue 1 is now available in our print section!

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October 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Climate change has serious implications for Country music, Jean Maro tells us, teasing out the anxieties present in The Castellows' 2024 cover of Leon Everette's "Hurricane," a resuscitated hit that takes on an entirely new significance in the face of increasingly severe hurricane seasons
October 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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After a full weekend of books, @htwvmag.bsky.social is hosting a documentary by Alexis Daloumis about the Syrian Democratic Forces' 18 month fight against I$I$, the coinciding fight for women's liberation, and the general social transformation in Rojava!

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October 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Issue 2 is almost here!
September 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Issue 2 is almost here!
September 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Abeng, a short-lived newspaper, offers a window into Jamaica's revolutionary currents in the late 60s. Acting as a theoretical nexus between communism and black power, it also served as a means of practical communication between different currents of class struggle on the island
September 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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This essay was weird, wonderful, and fun.

Really glad the first issue of Heatwave is online.
September 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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🔥Every Fire Needs A Little Bit of Help🔥

Audio from our public reading + NYC Anarchist Bookfair celebration of the publication of Jarrod's new book from @pmpress.bsky.social

w/ @okfox.bsky.social, @samanthahinds.bsky.social, @htwvmag.bsky.social, and more

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BONUS: Every Fire Needs A Little Bit of Help w/ Aristilde Kirby, O.K. Fox, Samantha Hinds, Heatwave, Antipolitika, Payton McCarty-Simas, and Jarrod Shanahan | The Antifada
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September 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Dams & Deluge: on communist niche construction

This article ran in @htwvmag.bsky.social issue #1. Infinite thanks to the friends who provided encouragement during the writing process, and to the wonderful Heatwave editors. More is on the way, hopefully.

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Dams and Deluge: On Communist Niche Construction | Heatwave
The fur trade was the first tendril of the emerging capitalist world system to probe and strangle its way across much of the North American continent.
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September 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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“Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi was a Palestine liberation activist from Seattle, Washington in the USA who was murdered by the Israeli Occupation Forces at a Palestinian demonstration in the West Bank in late 2024.”
September 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Issue 1 is now entirely online! Visit our website to read it. And subscribe to our Patreon to get Issue 2 mailed to you later this month. A few highlights from Issue 1 👇
September 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Why is Israel invading Gaza again?

To commit as much genocide as they can get away with.

What about Hamas?

Just as US politicians say "crime" whenever they call for more state repression, today "Hamas" is simply the noise Israeli politicians make to mean "We're going to murder more Palestinians."
NEW: “Gaza is burning,” says Israel’s Defense Minister as Israel starts their ground invasion of Gaza City after bombing over 50 residential towers in the biggest Palestinian city in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. [Videos]

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Israel Bombs Residential Towers, Unleashes 'Gates of Hell' on Gaza City - UNICORN RIOT
"Gaza is burning," says Israel's Defense Minister as Israel starts their ground invasion of Gaza City after bombing over 50 residential towers.
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September 17, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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September 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Joshua Clover's recent passing is a tremendous loss for the communist cause. Not only was he a close friend and mentor to many in our collective, but he was also exemplary in his clarity, breadth, and dedication. We aspire to be like Joshua as we navigate this world on fire.
September 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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September 15, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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While "The Commune Form" demonstrates "commitment to participating in and interpreting cycles of struggle in the unfolding ecological crisis," it mistakes the form of occupations for their function, occluding their inability to undertake communist measures. Reviewer F.P. writes:
September 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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