Author Archives: aidarends

Mike Davis: The Road to City of Quartz and Beyond | Labor | Duke University Press

This essay explores the historiographic ideas and political experiences that influenced the work of Mike Davis, the prolific Marxist historian who died in 2022. — Read on read.dukeupress.edu/labor/article/22/2/76/399901/Mike-Davis-The-Road-to-City-of-Quartz-and-Beyond

ICE agents pretend to be utility workers, Tucsonans claim

An undocumented man from Honduras, who has lived on Tucson’s south side for more than a decade, narrowly avoided being picked up by immigration agents who initially claimed to be utility workers, according to neighbors who witnessed the apparent immigration operation. While watering flowers in her front yard Wednesday morning, Christine Cariño was approached byContinue reading “ICE agents pretend to be utility workers, Tucsonans claim”

Tariffs as a Class Offensive – Heatwave

Seen in this light, the tariffs are neither a more or less rational policy choice, nor solely an elaborate grift. They are part of a two-front, worldwide class war unfolding between national bourgeoisies, on the one hand, and between them and the proletarians of their respective countries on the other. That is, the tariffs areContinue reading “Tariffs as a Class Offensive – Heatwave”

FBI and SPD infiltrated Seattle 2020 protests, used informants and surveillance | May 28–June 3, 2025 | Real Change

Five years ago, on the night of June 1, 2020, a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent was punched in the face while on “an approved surveillance operation” inside Seattle’s 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, according to FBI intelligence reports. Punched so hard their nose was broken. The next day, as protest crowds in SeattleContinue reading “FBI and SPD infiltrated Seattle 2020 protests, used informants and surveillance | May 28–June 3, 2025 | Real Change”

From Racket Theory to Real Domination | CTWG

In the early 1940s, the Frankfurt School developed a body of work—most of it only published posthumously decades later—that has been given the name ‘racket theory.’ That body of work is the topic of Section 2 of this essay. The other subject of this essay is the French (post-) Marxist theorist Jacques Camatte. In whatContinue reading “From Racket Theory to Real Domination | CTWG”

Brian Eno calls for Microsoft to cut ties with Israel, donating his Windows 95 startup chime fee to Gaza victims

”I’m compelled to speak, not as a composer this time, but as a citizen alarmed by the role Microsoft is playing in a very different kind of composition: one that leads to surveillance, violence, and destruction in Palestine.” — Read on http://www.brooklynvegan.com/brian-eno-calls-for-microsoft-to-cut-ties-with-israel-donating-his-windows-95-startup-chime-fee-to-gaza-victims/