Marxism
Before Stonewall: Queer liberation’s Communist Party roots
June 24, 2021The role of Harry Hay and Mattachine in theorizing gay identity was lost in the fog of anti-communism and the pressures for queer people to assimilate to the straight world.
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The Paris Commune: ‘In future we will turn the guns on you’
May 28, 2021The Communards, who knew nothing but violence and exploitation, wished for peace and spared their enemy. Yet history necessitates the unequivocal assumption of political power under penalty of defeat.
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Paris Commune at 150: Still going strong and challenging digital capitalism
April 28, 2021Karl Marx called it the first worker’s republic established in the history of humanity.
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Where do capitalists come from?
March 24, 2021How did we get from medieval feudalism with its kings and queens and poor exploited peasantry to the economic system that now dominates most of today’s world: capitalism?
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150 years ago, Paris Commune showed that workers can run society themselves
March 18, 2021If the Paris Commune has a lesson for our time, it is revolutionary hope: the conviction that the working class and its allies can transform the world.
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