This is the first part of a two-part article which considers the US-Israeli attack on Palestine in general and the Gaza Strip in particular in a world-historical and regional context. In contrast to a range of theories which resort to liberal international relations theory, economism, or methodological nationalism when theorizing accumulation in general or ArabContinue reading “Palestine’s Great Flood: Part I – Max Ajl, 2024”
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Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Culmination — Sidecar
Israel attacks Iran. — Read on newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/culmination
For a Summer against ICE, in Memory of Joshua Clover | Verso Books
Joshua Clover lived for moments like these, days or nights “when the partisans of riot exceed the police capacity for management, when the cops make their first retreat…when the riot becomes fully itself, slides loose from the grim continuity of daily life.” Published nine years before his death this April, and inscribed “for Oakland, for theContinue reading “For a Summer against ICE, in Memory of Joshua Clover | Verso Books”
ICE Didn’t Show Up For Work At Seattle Field Office After Barricade Showdown
After Saturday’s barricade of ICE’s Seattle Field Office went up in green smoke, ICE agents called off what was supposed to be day two of their unusual call for check-ins with Seattle-area immigrants. — Read on http://www.theburnerseattle.com/post/ice-didn-t-show-up-for-work-at-seattle-field-office-after-barricade-showdown
OPINION | Why I Skipped Seattle’s ‘No Kings’ Rally
An estimated 70,000 people in Seattle attended the nationwide “No Kings” protests against the Trump administration on Saturday. At the same time, a few miles south of Seattle, federal officials demanded that dozens of immigrants line up at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office in Tukwila. Why? — Read on southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/06/16/opinion-why-i-skipped-seattles-no-kings-rally
Los Angeles, or the End of Assimilation • Ill Will
While others may have forgotten the lessons of the George Floyd uprising, Trump and his coterie surely have not. The 2020 rebellion stands as the primal scene of humiliation and impotency, one which led to the demise of his reelection efforts. Although the National Guard ultimately restored order in twenty-three states, the Trump hardliners neverContinue reading “Los Angeles, or the End of Assimilation • Ill Will”
COOPT, EMPTY, EVISCERATE: Nievas and Piketty on Unequal Exchange
Waymo Suspends Service In Parts of SF and LA After Its Cars Were Vandalized In ICE Protests
Waymo Suspends Service In Parts of SF and LA After Its Cars Were Vandalized In ICE Protests — Read on sfist.com/2025/06/09/waymo-suspends-service-in-parts-of-sf-and-la-after-its-cars-were-vandalized-in-ice-protests/
The Test of Anarchy
The Paris Commune and ICE vehicles being pelted by chunks of concrete. The Egyptian Revolution and rows of self-driving cars engulfed in flames. The Spanish Civil War and crowds blocking a freeway blanketed with thick clouds of tear gas. — Read on thefrozenseainside.com/the-test-of-anarchy/
ICE raids tried to split LA apart, but might have made it stronger
From coordinating wildfire relief to blocking ICE buses, community organizers say Los Angeles County residents keep proving that in a city of strangers, nobody fights alone. Over the past three days, thousands of people in Los Angeles heeded calls from organizers to join protests against ICE and help their undocumented neighbors. — Read on lapublicpress.org/2025/06/ice-raids-separate-families-but-bring-los-angeles-together/
Aida Rends 