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The Islamic Republic’s position in the Axis of Resistance makes many US leftists reluctant to take a critical eye to this history or to Iran’s contemporary internal dynamics. Yet we must ask the fundamental question: Who are our comrades in the struggle against capitalism?
November 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The Islamic Republic’s position in the Axis of Resistance makes many US leftists reluctant to take a critical eye to this history or to Iran’s contemporary internal dynamics. Yet we must ask the fundamental question: Who are our comrades in the struggle against capitalism?
Surveying Iranian history since the 1960s, Zahedi demonstrates that the discourse of anti-imperialism was a crucial tool by which the Khomeinists consolidated power and that it remains an important way for the current regime to maintain labor discipline and stifle unrest.
November 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Surveying Iranian history since the 1960s, Zahedi demonstrates that the discourse of anti-imperialism was a crucial tool by which the Khomeinists consolidated power and that it remains an important way for the current regime to maintain labor discipline and stifle unrest.
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
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.”
L.P. traces this history and the forms of struggle that have emerged in response, from grassroots movements for local control to student organizing. These organizational structures set the stage for the uprising, feeding into both its initial intensity and longevity.
November 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
L.P. traces this history and the forms of struggle that have emerged in response, from grassroots movements for local control to student organizing. These organizational structures set the stage for the uprising, feeding into both its initial intensity and longevity.
While the uprising was a response to the collapse of a train station in Novi Sad, this tragedy was only the latest instance of a long trend of privatization, corruption, and reaction since the 1990s.
November 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
While the uprising was a response to the collapse of a train station in Novi Sad, this tragedy was only the latest instance of a long trend of privatization, corruption, and reaction since the 1990s.
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)
This climate denialism, fused with Country's existing anxieties, preemptively excuses the climate devastation that will only continue to worsen and disproportionately impact the most marginalized strata of the populace.
October 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This climate denialism, fused with Country's existing anxieties, preemptively excuses the climate devastation that will only continue to worsen and disproportionately impact the most marginalized strata of the populace.
The climate imaginary of country music assumes a stable cyclicality that mirrors the genre’s fantasy of a resilient white rural lifestyle, despite both agricultural employment and stable weather patterns increasingly becoming a thing of the past
October 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The climate imaginary of country music assumes a stable cyclicality that mirrors the genre’s fantasy of a resilient white rural lifestyle, despite both agricultural employment and stable weather patterns increasingly becoming a thing of the past
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
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
Issue 2 is almost here!
September 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Issue 2 is almost here!
...quick to see the paper as addressing their most prominent concerns and who, in turn, spoke through the newspaper to one another. This reciprocity by and large designated Abeng’s self-conscious approach to revolutionary organization"
September 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
...quick to see the paper as addressing their most prominent concerns and who, in turn, spoke through the newspaper to one another. This reciprocity by and large designated Abeng’s self-conscious approach to revolutionary organization"
"The Abeng newspaper also provided an opportunity to institute a dynamic reciprocity between, on the one hand, the militant core of the paper’s partisans who propelled its production and distribution and, on the other, the nebulous aggrieved and disaffected sufferers who were...
September 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
"The Abeng newspaper also provided an opportunity to institute a dynamic reciprocity between, on the one hand, the militant core of the paper’s partisans who propelled its production and distribution and, on the other, the nebulous aggrieved and disaffected sufferers who were...
"From our contemporary vantage point, the primary lessons of the Abeng group are to be found in their innovative approach to the relationship between party and class, and to the new forms of organization this approach called for."
September 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"From our contemporary vantage point, the primary lessons of the Abeng group are to be found in their innovative approach to the relationship between party and class, and to the new forms of organization this approach called for."
"It is within this context that the Abeng group and its weekly, eponymous newspaper first appeared in January 1969, offering an innovative and popular response to the deepened crisis in Jamaica."
September 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"It is within this context that the Abeng group and its weekly, eponymous newspaper first appeared in January 1969, offering an innovative and popular response to the deepened crisis in Jamaica."
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
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
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
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 👇
Read more about forthcoming Issue 2 and our reflections on Joshua Clover’s passing in the editorial, Comrades Known and Elsewhere, available now on our website.
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September 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Read more about forthcoming Issue 2 and our reflections on Joshua Clover’s passing in the editorial, Comrades Known and Elsewhere, available now on our website.
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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
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.
The task and content of communism then is not merely the transparent self-management of the species and its conscious reproduction, but the free association of producers within an ecological web. The Commune Form helps us understand what... this process might look like.
September 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The task and content of communism then is not merely the transparent self-management of the species and its conscious reproduction, but the free association of producers within an ecological web. The Commune Form helps us understand what... this process might look like.
These categories are "unable to clarify the social relations that subtend their own categories, whether rural or urban. It is only on the basis of these concrete relations that we can judge the communist character of a given struggle, that is, how it catalyzes communist measures
September 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
These categories are "unable to clarify the social relations that subtend their own categories, whether rural or urban. It is only on the basis of these concrete relations that we can judge the communist character of a given struggle, that is, how it catalyzes communist measures
[Ross makes] the case that the future of revolution turns on rurality and the perspective of subsistence. This [peasant] figure is not a local phenomenon, but a general, world-
historical revolutionary subject, produced through capital’s war against subsistence.
historical revolutionary subject, produced through capital’s war against subsistence.
September 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
[Ross makes] the case that the future of revolution turns on rurality and the perspective of subsistence. This [peasant] figure is not a local phenomenon, but a general, world-
historical revolutionary subject, produced through capital’s war against subsistence.
historical revolutionary subject, produced through capital’s war against subsistence.
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
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:
In memory of her sacrifice, we transcribed an interview originally recorded on The Beautiful Idea with her friend and comrade that will appear in our forthcoming issue. His story reflects on Ayşenur's dedication, the complexities of Palestine solidarity, and anti-zionism.
September 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
In memory of her sacrifice, we transcribed an interview originally recorded on The Beautiful Idea with her friend and comrade that will appear in our forthcoming issue. His story reflects on Ayşenur's dedication, the complexities of Palestine solidarity, and anti-zionism.
Last week on September 6, 2024 marked the one year anniversary of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi’s murder by the Israeli Occupation Forces in the West Bank. Ayşenur, from Seattle, traveled with the ISM to the West Bank to stand in solidarity with Palestinians.
September 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Last week on September 6, 2024 marked the one year anniversary of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi’s murder by the Israeli Occupation Forces in the West Bank. Ayşenur, from Seattle, traveled with the ISM to the West Bank to stand in solidarity with Palestinians.
Join us for a screening of Belkî Sibê , a documentary filmed by Alexis Daloumis that follows the advance of the Syrian Democratic Forces forces' 18-month fight against ISIS, the role of women's liberation within it, and the social transformation in Rojava.
September 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Join us for a screening of Belkî Sibê , a documentary filmed by Alexis Daloumis that follows the advance of the Syrian Democratic Forces forces' 18-month fight against ISIS, the role of women's liberation within it, and the social transformation in Rojava.