academiccompositionab
Empowerment Equalizer
SSaragian
Antony Sammeroff
Ann Sterzinger
Rodney
RJ
busterjames
cainusmaxus
Craig FitzGerald
David Heleniak
Caity & Dan Greene
keirmartland
Keith Preston
Bill the Butcher
ljp711
MRDA
Jack Donovan
Rachel Haywire
comrade hermit
Michael
Vince
Regan
robertstark2014
Noonan
S E Pearson
Rachel Haywire
Nexus X HumectressRACE AGAINST THE CLOCK To Get Back Into Iran Deal
Executive VP of The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Trita Parsi, details the negotiations taking place in Vienna to save the 2015 nuclear deal.
Why UK Labour Party Is Losing Working Class Voters
Journalist, Zaid Jilani, discusses the UK’s Labor Party and how they lost the working class.
PIPELINE Closure Shut INDEFINITELY Over Ransomware, Could Send Gas SKYROCKETING
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to a ransomware attack that forced the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline.
Did Covid Launch A Work REVOLUTION
Krystal Ball explains how work has become “more and more the totality of our identity.”
Are Neo-libs Even Dumber than Neo-cons?
By William S. Lind, Traditional Right As expected, the Establishment Biden administration has rounded up the usual suspects to fill its defense and foreign policy slots. That means the neo-liberals are back, once again dictating to the rest of the world how it should live. Just as the […]
FACT FROM FICTION On Biggest Jobs Miss In DECADES
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti analyze the latest jobs report.
A Leading Antifascist Commentator Repudiates Alexander Reid-Ross
Kudos. “Complementing its recruitment of Riggleman, the NCRI has recruited former leftist Alexander Reid-Ross as a senior research fellow. He is the lead author on the NCRI’s COVID disinformation report and a contributing author on at least one other of the institute’s studies. Reid-Ross, who teaches geography at […]
Are There Culturally Conservative Socialists?
This video explores how cultural politics of both the neoliberal and neo-traditional sorts are symptoms of an impasse in the struggle for socialism. We examine Nathan Robinson’s critique of Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti from the program Rising and his critique of Angela Nagle’s essay on immigration, in […]
Why are there so many Tankies? (A critique of the New Left.)
This video explores how the history of the New Left led to a revival of the old left and presents excerpts from the books Facing Reality and the upcoming Zero Books title Zeitgeist Nostalgia written by Alessandro Gandini.
Nathan Robinson, Woke Scolds, and the Limits of Anarchism
This Communist Study Questions video features interviews from Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (aka Capitol Hill’s Occupied Protest) along with commentary on Matt Taibbi. Nathan Robinson and the Left’s insanity. It also features a lesson on dialectical materialism and Marx’s critique of Proudhon. Relevant Essays The American Press […]
Raising awareness about human trafficking one step at a time
By Bill Lohman, Richmond Times-Dispatch They hiked into Richmond with sore feet, and then it rained — minor inconveniences considering their reason for being here. Members of The FreeTHEM Walk team, 120 miles into a 900-mile trek to call attention to human trafficking, came through Richmond on Friday, […]
The Show That Captures America’s Changing Gun Culture
By Stephen Gutowski John Keys became one of the millions of Americans to buy their first gun in March 2020. As an African American, he was part of the fastest-growing demographic to do so. “Right at the height of all of the craziness is when I bought my […]
Biden Plans Expansion of Feds’ Army of Snitches in ‘Dollars for Collars’ Program
By James Bovard, The American Conservative The Biden administration may soon recruit an army of private snoops to conduct surveillance that would be illegal if done by federal agents. As part of its war on extremism, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may exploit a “legal work-around” to […]
How the US gov’t cultivated environmental and Indigenous groups to defeat Ecuador’s leftist Correísta movement
This is interesting. Totalitarian humanism vs. Latin American left-nationalist populist. By Ben Norton, The Grayzone When socialist Rafael Correa became Ecuador’s president, CIA cutouts poured money into environmental and Indigenous groups, while the US embassy cultivated opportunistic leaders to undermine his constituency. These forces helped secure victory for […]
Welcome to the New Age of Anarcho-Fascism
For the prosecution. From 2017. By Jared Keller, Pacific Standard On August 15th, President Donald Trump threw the door wide open for American fascism. Speaking confidently on his home turf of Trump Tower in New York City, Trump blamed “many sides” for the violent clashes between antifascists and alt-right groups […]
The Anarcho-Fascist Manifesto
For the defense. By Velkan Corvinus, The Revolutionary Conservative Today, April 20, 2021, we decreed the birth of the NTC, this being our first day of public struggle for the Tempestist Revolution: calling for the organization of our struggle and resistance. Our only objective is the destruction of […]
A map of the world that includes Utopia’: The Self-Management Group and the Brisbane libertarians
By Tim Briedis This thesis explores a slice of Brisbane’s radical history. I focus on the Self-Management Group (SMG), a revolutionary organisation that flourished from 1971-1977. The SMG formed as Brisbane activism shifted from a politics based around conscience to a revolutionary subjectivity. In 1977, the SMG dissolved. […]
Anarchism & Assassination: Dom Carlos to the Qing’s Zaifeng Regent
By Paul Spooner International Terrorist movements were launched under Mikhail Bakunin & the First International led by Karl Marx, but extend well into the 20th Century. This article provides an overview of anarchism’s geopolitical relationships, its theoretical bases, operating organizations, methods and funding, with a focus on French […]
Matt Taibbi on How Politics is like WWE Wrestling – “HATE INC”
In Episode 8 of The Vanguard book-club, Zac & Gavin continue discussing Matt Taibbi’s “Hate Inc”.
We Need to Talk About Destroying America
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Dearest motherfuckers, we need to have a serious talk about America. I’ve been tapdancing around this subject for years like a genderfuck Shirley Temple but I think we’ve come to the point where we can’t afford to mince […]
Envisioning a Greener New Deal
A webinar that took place a few days ago to which ATS was a contributor. We must halt environmental destruction while providing a better quality of life for everyone on Earth. Since our hope has been that alternative energy can replace fossil fuels, it can be overwhelming to […]
NEW Woke CIA Releases Pro-LGBTQ Ad
This is hilarious.
How Just Was The Ottoman Millet System?
Achieving semi-autonomy even within the context of a theocratic imperium. At times the borders of the Ottoman empire almost reached Vienna inthe north, Yemen in the south, Algeria in the west and today’s Iran in the east.The Ottoman state was a form of theocracy, based on strict notions […]
How Did Greek City-States Work?
Quasi-anarchy in antiquity. The ancient Greeks were divided into over 1,000 different city-states, from the bustling cities of Athens and Sparta to colonies in distant Afghanistan, but how exactly did these city-states work?
Why The Holy Roman Empire Was The WEIRDEST Country Ever
My prediction is that the combined proliferation of startup societies and the collapse of the global capitalist order and the nation-states that are its components will probably produce systems that look not unlike modern versions of the Holy Roman Empire, a hodgepodge of independent or semi-independent but often […]
The enduring relevance of the classical transnational labour movement and the ‘global justice’ movement
By Donnacha DeLong An examination of the enduring relevance of the syndicalist period of trade unionism and the ‘global justice’ movement, tracing the history of both and the influence on the first movement on the more recent and the aspects that have continued relevance. READ MORE
Katie Halper Interviews Rose McGowan
This is a pretty interesting discussion of “life on the inside” in Hollywood and the entertainment industry. The inimitable activist, writer, filmmaker, singer and producer Rose McGowan (https://www.rosemcgowan.com/) joins The Katie Halper Show LIVE for what will surely be an extremely engaging and brutally honest conversation. See my […]
Identity Politics Debate: John McWhorter & Michael Eric Dyson
The public and pundits alike are still processing the most recent election, but this much we know: 2020 marks the most diverse Congress in American history, and President Trump garnered more minority voters in 2020 than in 2016. As Georgia faces two runoff elections, which will determine which […]
Glenn Greenwald: American liberals confused on where power lies
Journalist Glenn Greenwald reacts to the left’s embrace of intelligence agencies on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ Watch here.
Federal civil rights charges for 4 ex-officers in George Floyd’s death
A federal grand jury in Minnesota has indicted Derek Chauvin, the fired Minneapolis police officer convicted in the death of George Floyd, and three other former officers on civil rights charges. Chauvin is also facing charges in another incident. CBS News chief justice and homeland security correspondent Jeff […]
People LOVE Biden’s Spending Programs As GOP Attacks FAIL
Krystal Ball digs into polling by Morning Consult analyzing support for the American Families Plan.
Inside FIGHT OVER Higher Wages At Denny’s
Daily Poster founder, David Sirota, discusses the pressure Denny’s is facing from shareholders who want the company to end support for the National Restaurant Association lobbying efforts against a $15 minimum wage.
How Trailblazers Bolster Regressive Politics
Doctoral student, Irami Osei-Frimpong, shares his thoughts on regressive politics.
HILLARY Emerges To BASH Biden For Afghan Withdrawal
Of course. Team Rising discusses concerns over Joe President Joe Biden’s plan to withdraw from Afghanistan.
Liz Cheney’s Replacement Shows MAGA Is OFFICIALLY MEANINGLESS
Saagar Enjeti weighs in on Elise Stefanik’s previous comments about talks with the Taliban and John Bolton’s resignation.
Are We Facing Eviction CRISIS When Moratorium Expires?
Team Rising reacts to the upcoming end of a federal moratorium on evictions.
Blue States OUTPACE Red In Vaccinations, Setting Stage For Disaster
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti analyze vaccination rates across the country.
Chris Hedges: Who Cancel Culture Really Serves
The principal weakness in some of my earlier work is that I a)greatly overestimated the interest of many supposed “anti-system” people in actual opposing the system and b) greatly underestimated the entrenchment of tribal politics in US society. It would seem that tribal politics trumps class politics, populism, […]
Evaluating Biden’s Shift Leftward
In this Wolff Responds, Prof. Wolff comments on Biden’s policies and his shift to the left. Wolff argues that Biden is simply softening and slowing the effects of a declining US economy, but shows no signs of wanting to stop or reverse it. Biden’s tactics are no where […]
The PMC Thesis Relies Upon Forgetting Historical Materialism
My view is that the liberal-technocratic “left” (and not the socialist left) is the managerial elite within the context of a wider state-capitalist plutocracy dominated by technological, financial, and industrial oligarchs in collusion/collaboration with the national security state. This shouldn’t be too hard to understand. This video will […]
Wokeness Is Hurting Democrats
It is somewhat amusing to watch these 20something and 30something woke/hip “progressives” finally starting to at least partially realize what I have been telling them for 25 years. The reasons that I became such an outspoken critic of “political correctness” (or whatever one wishes to call it) were […]
Incarceration, crime, and race | Glenn Loury & Adaner Usmani
08:45 Public sentiment and punitive policy on crime 18:02 Glenn and Adaner on crime in America vs. Northern Europe 20:58 Democracy’s effect on criminal justice policy 24:29 Does the “New Jim Crow” cause higher incarceration? 31:33 Glenn puts on the hat of a Trump voter on crime and […]
How Should the Left Think About Crime?
Adaner Usmani, assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University, joins us to discuss the current wave of violent crime in the US, the law-and-order backlashes of prior decades, and the origins of mass incarceration. The Jacobin Show airs every Wednesday at 6 PM ET and […]
Everything You Know About Mass Incarceration Is Wrong
On The Jacobin Show, Adaner Usmani explains the economic origins of mass incarceration and discusses solutions for rolling back the police state today.
What is Imperialist Realism?
Since its emergence in the middle of the twentieth century, the American Empire has been fueled by the search for an enemy. This episode of Zero Squared features a conversation with Daniel Bessner features a conversation about Karl Schmidt, the friend/enemy distinction, the cold war, and American Empire’s […]
New Perspectives on Anarchism, Labour and Syndicalism: The Individual, the National and the Transnational
By Constance Bantman and David Berry Recent years have seen an upsurge of interest in the history of European anarchist and syndicalist movements. The rise of alter-globalisation protest borrowing many of its direct-action tactics from pre-World War I anarchism and syndicalism has been important in bringing it on […]
Alternative Security Conference: “Woke Imperialism” with Aaron Maté, Katie Halper and Rania Khalek
“Woke Imperialism / Diversity Among War Mongers” explores the fairly recently adopted language of Western foreign policy establishments post-Trump. During this session, we will discuss how the Western military, surveillance and financial establishments continue to extrapolate different formerly countercultural trends borrowed from identity politics, in order to airbrush […]
John McWhorter on Cursing, Anti-Racism, and Why ‘We Need to Stop Being So Afraid’
If advocates of “wokeness,” “critical race theory,” and “anti-racism” seem to be acting like religious zealots who must crush all heretics, that’s because they are, argued Columbia University linguist John McWhorter at a 2018 debate at the Soho Forum. “Anti-racism as currently configured has gone a long way […]
The Three Lefts
Michael Lind discusses the “three lefts”: trade unionists, socialists, and intersectional leftists. I’d say that for all practical purposes, the USA now has what amounts to three political parties: The party of “woke capitalism” (most Democrats, neocons, and Never Trumpers), the populist right (which is becoming more like […]
What the Fed DOESN’T Want You to Know About Inflation
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Is it a temporary blip… or the beginning of a long-term trend? That’s the key question facing consumers, investors, and retirees when it comes to inflation. There’s no denying that inflation pressures have picked up dramatically over the past 12 months. Price […]
Recent Comments