journalspectre.bsky.social
@journalspectre.bsky.social
Marxist journal that understands anti-oppression struggles as constitutive of class struggle. Pro-Black, pro-queer, and resolutely internationalist.
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Issue 12 is in the mail!

With features by @redprof.bsky.social , Clara Mattei, Ilya Matveev, and @jferre.bsky.social.
Woot! Can't wait for issue 2 to drop.

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November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Issue 4 pre-orders coming soon
November 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Issue 4
Pinko Magazine’s fourth issue is finally here. The only print magazine of gay communism in English has returned with 100 pages of new essays, analysis, art, interviews and archival material from the f...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Book Launch tomorrow at London @histmat.bsky.social with @redprof.bsky.social , Gargi Bhattacharya, Pepijn Brandon, and Charles Post.

Saturday 11/8, 14:30-16:15, B103 SOAS Brunei Gallery
November 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist who has long lurked at the outer edges of the MAGAsphere, took a giant step toward the center last week.
Nick Fuentes Has Officially Breached the MAGA Gates
How the right's crisis over US support for Israel has provided the white nationalist with the opening he needs to be welcomed into the MAGA fold.
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November 4, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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11/6 Speak out for Tom Alter!
October 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Issue 12 is in the mail!

With features by @redprof.bsky.social , Clara Mattei, Ilya Matveev, and @jferre.bsky.social.
November 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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We’re thrilled to release our new episode: an interview with Dr. @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social about the history & legacies of the Palestinian struggle for freedom. We discuss the Palestinian Liberation Movement here & abroad, & the challenges that have come with the fight.
🎧: bit.ly/rc2025emanabdehadi
October 31, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Hey y'all! This Tuesday we have Keith Rosenthal looking at Fiorello La Guardia's legacy in order to think about the obstacles and openings for socialist politics under a progressive mayor.
“The Greatest New York City Mayor of All Time” – Spectre Journal
Keith Rosenthal looks back on the historical record of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in order to reexamine the relationship between social movements and their elected officials.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Spectre editor Shireen Akram-Boshar writing for Tempest.
Electoralism cannot free Palestine
Shireen Akram-Boshar argues that a recent interview in Jacobin offers a mistaken analysis of the challenges facing the Palestine solidarity movement.
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November 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
October is in the books! Thanks to Abby Cunniff, Tish Turl, Tithi Bhattacharya , @dnbrgr.bsky.social , Dania Rajendra , @andrewosborne.bsky.social , and Laura Fair-Schulz!

And thanks to Mithrella Curtis and @empowermentave.bsky.social for continuing our Incarcerated Writers series.

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November 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
October is in the books! Thanks to Abby Cunniff, Tish Turl, Tithi Bhattacharya , @dnbrgr.bsky.social , Dania Rajendra , @andrewosborne.bsky.social , and Laura Fair-Schulz!

And thanks to Mithrella Curtis and @empowermentave.bsky.social for continuing our Incarcerated Writers series.

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November 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
ICYMI: @andrewosborne.bsky.social 's analysis of the capitalist dynamics exemplified by Jeffrey Epstein is still live on our website.
October 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Hey y'all! This Friday we have Laura Fair-Schulz reviewing @bornagainlabor.bsky.social 's Gothic Capitalism (Revol Press)

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Review of Adam's Turl's Gothic Capitalism – Spectre Journal
Laura Fair-Schulz reviews Adam Turl's Gothic Capitalism: Art Evicted from Heaven and Earth.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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David Camfield interviewing Alan Wald for Victor's Children
#58: McCarthyism and its lessons for the left today
McCarthyism and its lessons for the left today . . The Trump administration's repressive moves have sparked talk of a
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October 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Epstein’s trajectory exemplifies blackmail capitalism—an integral facet of contemporary mode of accumulation, reflecting its coercive & violent logics. For Epstein, far from being merely a lurid detail, the compulsive production of kompromat was structural engine of entire wealth-building scheme
October 29, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Members of the Committee to Defend Tom Alter are asking you to sign a personalized version of one of the following letters (Links in thread 👇🏽 🧵).

Tom is making a formal appeal for his unjust firing at Texas State. Please sign before the appeal's preliminary review on 11/10.
October 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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My new piece in @journalspectre.bsky.social on Jeffrey Epstein, blackmail, and primitive accumulation—analysing how kompromat became the structural engine of his wealth-building scheme, predetermining outcomes and entrenching power relations. spectrejournal.com/jeffrey-epst...
Jeffrey Epstein – Spectre Journal
Andrew Osborne analyzes the social dynamics that made Jeffrey Epstein an indispensable exemplar of capitalist appropriation before, ultimately, rendering him redundant.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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NEW: Hardwiring Normalization -- Infrastructures, Extraction and Gaza's Future

Rafeef Ziadah encapsulates the material politics that tie the Abraham Accords to the plans for reconstruction in Gaza, and the continued dispossession of Palestinians.

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Hardwiring Normalization—Infrastructures, Extraction and Gaza’s Future
In the summer of 2025, a 38-page blueprint circulating inside the Trump administration was leaked to the press: the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) Trust. At…
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October 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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@andrewosborne.bsky.social analyzes the social dynamics that made Jeffrey Epstein an exemplar of capitalism violence before, ultimately, making him redundant
Jeffrey Epstein – Spectre Journal
Andrew Osborne analyzes the social dynamics that made Jeffrey Epstein an indispensable exemplar of capitalist appropriation before, ultimately, rendering him redundant.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
@adamcalo.bsky.social and Maywa Montenegro talking about agroecology and the problems with productivist solutions to hunger on Sustainability Now!
With SNAP benefits in jeaopardy, the question of how best to feed hungry people is in the air. Out of many interventions, I'd put intesifiying commodity production very low on the priority list.

Pod interview based on The Eduring Fantasy of Feeding the World piece for @journalspectre.bsky.social
Sustainability Now! Oct. 26, 2025: The Enduring Fantasy of ‘Feeding the World’ with Professors Adam Calo and Maywa Montenego
The Enduring Fantasy of ‘Feeding the World’ with Professors Adam Calo and Maywa Montenego  On Sustainability Now! Sunday, October 26th, 5-6 PM Even before the publication of Paul Ehrlich’s The Populat...
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October 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM