Category Archives: Lit Review

Malcolm’s Message to the Grassroots

If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it’s wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it’s wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us,Continue reading “Malcolm’s Message to the Grassroots”

(PDF) International law, politics and opposition to the Iraq War

A key feature of the Iraq war was the prominence of international legal argument. This article argues that the motif of the ‘illegal war’ was crucial in mobilisations against the war. It traces the reasons for the prominence of this ‘illegal war’ motif and the wider political consequences of its adoption. — Read on http://www.academia.edu/64028197/International_law_politics_and_opposition_to_the_Iraq_War

Palestine’s Great Flood: Part II – Max Ajl, 2024

This is the second part of a two-part article on the Palestinian question. This part treats the development and trajectory of anticolonial nationalism, focusing on the post-1970s period in the Gaza Strip. It treats the growth and development of the main armed factions in the Strip, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad, and then discusses Israeli policiesContinue reading “Palestine’s Great Flood: Part II – Max Ajl, 2024”

Palestine’s Great Flood: Part I – Max Ajl, 2024

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”

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”

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”