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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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November 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“The Anti-Imperialist Imperialism Club: On Left Internationalism and Iran” will be featured in Issue 2 and is available now on our website ahead of Issue 2's official launch: heatwavemag.info/magazine/iss...
The Anti-Imperialist Imperialism Club: On Left Internationalism and Iran | Heatwave
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 ant...
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November 8, 2025 at 5:00 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?
November 8, 2025 at 4:59 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.
November 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Part 1 of “Pumping Up the Revolt” will be featured in Issue 2 and is available now on our website ahead of Issue 2's official launch:

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“Pumping Up” the Revolt: The Serbian Uprising, Its Roots, and Its Discontents | Heatwave
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 ...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:50 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.
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.
November 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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October 22, 2025 at 3:52 AM
“What Was Recession Pop” and the rest of Issue 1 is now available on our website:

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What Was Recession Pop? | Heatwave
'Recession pop is so back.' Such was the reaction when Lady Gaga released 'Abracadabra,' the second single for her new album Mayhem. On TikTok and across social media, a consensus began to form: the l...
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October 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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October 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"If we are to survive the coming storm, we will have to do a lot more than pray." Read "Hurricane Season" by Jean Maro now on our website ahead of Issue 2's launch:

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Hurricane Season | Heatwave
Jean Maro demonstrates that climate change has serious implications for Country music by teasing out the anxieties present in The Castellows' 2024 cover of Leon Everette's
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October 8, 2025 at 2:14 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.
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
October 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM