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In recent years, the rise of platform monopolies such as Google, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft has sparked a growing discourse among scholars and … Digital Lords or Capitalist Titans? Critiquing the Techno-Feudalism Narrative

Immanuel Wallerstein’s intellectual journey toward developing world-systems analysis began with his significant involvement in African studies during the 1960s. This article explores how Wallerstein’s decade as an Africanist, marked by his deep engagement with the decolonisation movements across the continent, laid the foundation for his later Marxist-oriented critique of the capitalist world-economy. — Read onContinue reading “Immanuel Wallerstein as Africanist: from modernisation to Marxism in the 1960s – ScienceOpen”

What follows is the first English translation, by Alex Jreisat, of the Palestinian revolutionary intellectual and martyr Basel al-Araj’s essay Al-dhakirah al-jarīhah lil-nakbah (“The Wounded Memory of the Nakba”), which explores political questions of memory during and after catastrophe through unflinching portraits of several geographies that faced Zionist annihilation campaigns from 1947 to 1949, includingContinue reading “The New York War Crimes | “All the Consent That’s Fit to Manufacture””

What I remember most isn’t anger or shock, but loneliness.  The feeling was pronounced.  I was saddened by what I viewed at the time as a betrayal.  (I view it now as normal protocol.)  But the sense of being alone on the issue, embedded in every Palestinian’s consciousness, felt almost brutal.  Indeed, calling Zionist colonizationContinue reading “No Resurrection: The Life and Death of the Modern University – Steve Salaita”

Telling somebody who is traveling to the United States or expressing unpopular opinions inside the United States to “be careful” seems perfunctory, the kind of thing one says (or hears) without thinking too much about it.  This time it didn’t feel perfunctory, though.  It managed to convey the severity of the moment.  — Read onContinue reading “Care and Carefulness in Today’s United States – Steve Salaita”

A recent conclusion to the series of articles chronicling the movement against Cop City offers an impressive benchmark for analyses of ongoing struggles, but many of our descriptions of the ruling bloc still presume that it is a unified, wholly self-conscious force, whose true motives are unknown to us. As an attempt to think inContinue reading “A Conspiracy of Dunces | Lake Effect Collective”

An interview with Palestine Action. — Read on newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/tactics-of-disruption

The Marx-Engels Complete Works project (Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe [MEGA]) faced challenges far beyond those typically encountered in the review, collection, and editorial processing of any substantial body of work. — Read on http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/mega-from-the-historical-critical-dictionary-of-marxism/

Palestinian history is inextricably global, its locations many, and its social, cultural, and political entanglements with the world endless. The writing of Palestinian history, therefore, must necessarily attune itself to the local lives and particular struggles of refugees scattered across jurisdictions and far beyond Israel’s territorial control. — Read on sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2020/10/los-angeles-intifada/

In spring it becomes obvious how lovely you really are my baby my baby my baby soft voiced but strong In summer it is unavoidable you strutted right into bedstuywithout a sweat it seemed from the outside tho you say In fall it is clearer than ever the murderers drop facade and the world goesContinue reading “a year of lovin you”