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Thomas Necchi writes:
“[...] the IDF have been openly working with gangs in Gaza to steal aid from the Palestinians, to undermine the effort to relieve the famine.”
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“[...] the IDF have been openly working with gangs in Gaza to steal aid from the Palestinians, to undermine the effort to relieve the famine.”
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Israel's Narcotic War
The IDF have been openly working with
gangs in Gaza to steal aid from the
Palestinians and undermine the effort
to relieve the famine.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Thomas Necchi writes:
“[...] the IDF have been openly working with gangs in Gaza to steal aid from the Palestinians, to undermine the effort to relieve the famine.”
www.newintermag.com/israels-narc...
“[...] the IDF have been openly working with gangs in Gaza to steal aid from the Palestinians, to undermine the effort to relieve the famine.”
www.newintermag.com/israels-narc...
A.M. Gittlitz writes about Zohran Mamdani’s inspiring win:
“Mamdani’s victory, while a clear demand for the Democrats to get up and join the fight, also communicates the understanding that it will more likely be against them.”
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“Mamdani’s victory, while a clear demand for the Democrats to get up and join the fight, also communicates the understanding that it will more likely be against them.”
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Our Time is Now
The slogan keeps alive a concept that the counterrevolutionary terror of the past years has sought to kill entirely—that history can, if we fight, belong to us.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A.M. Gittlitz writes about Zohran Mamdani’s inspiring win:
“Mamdani’s victory, while a clear demand for the Democrats to get up and join the fight, also communicates the understanding that it will more likely be against them.”
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“Mamdani’s victory, while a clear demand for the Democrats to get up and join the fight, also communicates the understanding that it will more likely be against them.”
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Kate Burgos writes on the contradictions of contemporary political memory:
“It is difficult to square the liberal notion of suffragettes as respectable ladies sewing banners with the reality of women who actively encouraged violence.”
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“It is difficult to square the liberal notion of suffragettes as respectable ladies sewing banners with the reality of women who actively encouraged violence.”
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The Pankhurst Reign of Terror
It is difficult to square the liberal notion of suffragettes as respectable ladies sewing banners with the reality of women who actively encouraged violence.
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October 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Kate Burgos writes on the contradictions of contemporary political memory:
“It is difficult to square the liberal notion of suffragettes as respectable ladies sewing banners with the reality of women who actively encouraged violence.”
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“It is difficult to square the liberal notion of suffragettes as respectable ladies sewing banners with the reality of women who actively encouraged violence.”
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Ross Wolfe concludes his critique of Losurdo's “worthless” work:
“Its influence in the current online Stalinist revival attests to the extent to which defeat can be repackaged and sold as victory.”
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“Its influence in the current online Stalinist revival attests to the extent to which defeat can be repackaged and sold as victory.”
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Revisionism Revisited
Losurdo revised Marx, Engels, and Lenin whenever their theories did not conform to the faits accompli of actually-existing socialism.
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September 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Ross Wolfe concludes his critique of Losurdo's “worthless” work:
“Its influence in the current online Stalinist revival attests to the extent to which defeat can be repackaged and sold as victory.”
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“Its influence in the current online Stalinist revival attests to the extent to which defeat can be repackaged and sold as victory.”
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Ross Wolfe untagles Domenico Losurdo's supposedly decolonial critiques of Western Marxists: "Losurdo’s specific accusations against them feel haphazard. The only consistent feature throughout is his dishonesty."
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Losurdo's Lies
His readings are so tendentious as to strain credibility.
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September 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Ross Wolfe untagles Domenico Losurdo's supposedly decolonial critiques of Western Marxists: "Losurdo’s specific accusations against them feel haphazard. The only consistent feature throughout is his dishonesty."
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Ross Wolfe tackles Domenico Losurdo's work as "a new school of falsification, all in service of justifying the course history has taken. Everything he wrote had to align with the geopolitical interests of [a] few nominally socialist states"
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Against Losurdo
His intellectual output constitutes nothing less than the (re)entry of Stalinism into the realm of philosophy.
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September 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Ross Wolfe tackles Domenico Losurdo's work as "a new school of falsification, all in service of justifying the course history has taken. Everything he wrote had to align with the geopolitical interests of [a] few nominally socialist states"
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James Holmes writes about the notion of choice in contemporary liberal democracy:
“Genuine freedom is not like selecting a dish from a menu; instead, it’s more like the ability to create a new dish and perhaps to prepare a whole other menu.”
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“Genuine freedom is not like selecting a dish from a menu; instead, it’s more like the ability to create a new dish and perhaps to prepare a whole other menu.”
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Choice is Not Freedom
Genuine freedom is not like selecting a dish from a menu.
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July 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
James Holmes writes about the notion of choice in contemporary liberal democracy:
“Genuine freedom is not like selecting a dish from a menu; instead, it’s more like the ability to create a new dish and perhaps to prepare a whole other menu.”
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“Genuine freedom is not like selecting a dish from a menu; instead, it’s more like the ability to create a new dish and perhaps to prepare a whole other menu.”
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Meriem Hadjal recounts her experience of the Global March to Gaza:
“June 12, 2025, was a historic date. More than 4,000 people from around the world gathered in Cairo for an unprecedented act of solidarity with the Palestinian people.”
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“June 12, 2025, was a historic date. More than 4,000 people from around the world gathered in Cairo for an unprecedented act of solidarity with the Palestinian people.”
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The Global March to Gaza
The Sisi government blocked life-saving aid from reaching starving Palestinians.
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July 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Meriem Hadjal recounts her experience of the Global March to Gaza:
“June 12, 2025, was a historic date. More than 4,000 people from around the world gathered in Cairo for an unprecedented act of solidarity with the Palestinian people.”
newintermag.com/the-global-m...
“June 12, 2025, was a historic date. More than 4,000 people from around the world gathered in Cairo for an unprecedented act of solidarity with the Palestinian people.”
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Foucauld Giuliani writes that Trump’s theology:
“[...] resolves to the legitimation of war, deification of force, and sanctification of death; it is a theology of power and violence; a non-Christian and anti-evangelical heresy.”
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“[...] resolves to the legitimation of war, deification of force, and sanctification of death; it is a theology of power and violence; a non-Christian and anti-evangelical heresy.”
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Donald Trump’s Idolatrous Ideology
Trump honors a god made for measure: one of war.
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June 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Foucauld Giuliani writes that Trump’s theology:
“[...] resolves to the legitimation of war, deification of force, and sanctification of death; it is a theology of power and violence; a non-Christian and anti-evangelical heresy.”
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“[...] resolves to the legitimation of war, deification of force, and sanctification of death; it is a theology of power and violence; a non-Christian and anti-evangelical heresy.”
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NEW EPISODE OF FRUITLESS! I was joined by @keanuheydari.bsky.social to discuss the conflict between Israel and Iran and the logic of escalation. Available wherever you get your podcasts.
June 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Keanu Heydari writes about the Iran-Israel conflict:
"The architecture of escalation, therefore, is not a disruption of the international order; it is its method."
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"The architecture of escalation, therefore, is not a disruption of the international order; it is its method."
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Iran, Israel, & the Logic of Escalation
The substance of the international order is state violence with impunity.
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June 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Keanu Heydari writes about the Iran-Israel conflict:
"The architecture of escalation, therefore, is not a disruption of the international order; it is its method."
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"The architecture of escalation, therefore, is not a disruption of the international order; it is its method."
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Alice Celik writes about the dissolution of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK):
“[...] armed struggle is over; now is the time for a political strategy. A risky but calculated move, in response to a profound popular aspiration.”
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“[...] armed struggle is over; now is the time for a political strategy. A risky but calculated move, in response to a profound popular aspiration.”
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Öcalan’s Last Call
The dissolution of the PKK should not be viewed as a surrender or as a victory for the Turkish state.
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May 23, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Alice Celik writes about the dissolution of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK):
“[...] armed struggle is over; now is the time for a political strategy. A risky but calculated move, in response to a profound popular aspiration.”
newintermag.com/ocalans-last...
“[...] armed struggle is over; now is the time for a political strategy. A risky but calculated move, in response to a profound popular aspiration.”
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Adam Jones (@sanktmaxtci.bsky.social) reads “AI” politically:
“Data centres function as an increasingly central part of the nervous system of an imperial, techno-capitalist order. Democratic politics holds the right to question their present and future existence.”
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“Data centres function as an increasingly central part of the nervous system of an imperial, techno-capitalist order. Democratic politics holds the right to question their present and future existence.”
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‘AI’ as Class Warfare
So-called ‘AI’ does not reduce, but rather diffuses and renders labour practically invisible.
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May 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Adam Jones (@sanktmaxtci.bsky.social) reads “AI” politically:
“Data centres function as an increasingly central part of the nervous system of an imperial, techno-capitalist order. Democratic politics holds the right to question their present and future existence.”
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“Data centres function as an increasingly central part of the nervous system of an imperial, techno-capitalist order. Democratic politics holds the right to question their present and future existence.”
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Joe Gallagher (@joedgallagher.bsky.social) writes about how UK cuts to healthcare paired with end-of-life legislation threaten the disabled:
“For many it will be coercive euthanasia, an expansion of quotidian violence”
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“For many it will be coercive euthanasia, an expansion of quotidian violence”
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Assisted Suicide, or Social Murder?
The UK cuts welfare and offers death.
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May 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Joe Gallagher (@joedgallagher.bsky.social) writes about how UK cuts to healthcare paired with end-of-life legislation threaten the disabled:
“For many it will be coercive euthanasia, an expansion of quotidian violence”
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“For many it will be coercive euthanasia, an expansion of quotidian violence”
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Mary Clare O'Donnell (@maryclareod11.bsky.social ) writes about Pope Francis' legacy:
“Francis continuously returned his focus to the margins [...] he would kneel before women, Muslims, and prisoners, washing their feet, as Jesus did in the New Testament.”
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“Francis continuously returned his focus to the margins [...] he would kneel before women, Muslims, and prisoners, washing their feet, as Jesus did in the New Testament.”
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The People’s Pope
Francis’ small but radical acts embodied a theology of closeness: the conviction that Christ is found not in power, but in proximity to those the world forgets.
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May 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Mary Clare O'Donnell (@maryclareod11.bsky.social ) writes about Pope Francis' legacy:
“Francis continuously returned his focus to the margins [...] he would kneel before women, Muslims, and prisoners, washing their feet, as Jesus did in the New Testament.”
newintermag.com/the-peoples-...
“Francis continuously returned his focus to the margins [...] he would kneel before women, Muslims, and prisoners, washing their feet, as Jesus did in the New Testament.”
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My essay on the life and thought of James Connolly is now up at New International, just in time for the 109th anniversary of the Easter Rising.
James Connolly, Socialist Republican
His thought and his life stand as compelling exemplars of a figure he would rightly praise: “the Socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom”.
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April 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
My essay on the life and thought of James Connolly is now up at New International, just in time for the 109th anniversary of the Easter Rising.
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Read my review of Mélenchon and Hollande's new books!
Olly Haynes reviews Jean-Luc Mélenchon and François Hollande's new books:
“Where Hollande identifies himself with the state, Mélenchon identifies himself with the people—the mass of humanity organised as a collective actor.”
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“Where Hollande identifies himself with the state, Mélenchon identifies himself with the people—the mass of humanity organised as a collective actor.”
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Mélenchon vs. Hollande
Where Hollande identifies himself with the state, Mélenchon identifies himself with the people—the mass of humanity organised as a collective actor.
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April 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Read my review of Mélenchon and Hollande's new books!
Francis Parny calls for mobilization on May Day against Trump and the war-mongering capitalist class that he serves:
“Only the people can rise up and make themselves heard, opposing this global chaos”
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“Only the people can rise up and make themselves heard, opposing this global chaos”
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Workers of the Word, Unite!
In all our efforts, we must convince people that no positive change is possible without a rupture with capitalism.
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April 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Francis Parny calls for mobilization on May Day against Trump and the war-mongering capitalist class that he serves:
“Only the people can rise up and make themselves heard, opposing this global chaos”
newintermag.com/workers-of-t...
“Only the people can rise up and make themselves heard, opposing this global chaos”
newintermag.com/workers-of-t...
Olly Haynes reviews Jean-Luc Mélenchon and François Hollande's new books:
“Where Hollande identifies himself with the state, Mélenchon identifies himself with the people—the mass of humanity organised as a collective actor.”
newintermag.com/melenchon-vs...
“Where Hollande identifies himself with the state, Mélenchon identifies himself with the people—the mass of humanity organised as a collective actor.”
newintermag.com/melenchon-vs...
Mélenchon vs. Hollande
Where Hollande identifies himself with the state, Mélenchon identifies himself with the people—the mass of humanity organised as a collective actor.
newintermag.com
April 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Olly Haynes reviews Jean-Luc Mélenchon and François Hollande's new books:
“Where Hollande identifies himself with the state, Mélenchon identifies himself with the people—the mass of humanity organised as a collective actor.”
newintermag.com/melenchon-vs...
“Where Hollande identifies himself with the state, Mélenchon identifies himself with the people—the mass of humanity organised as a collective actor.”
newintermag.com/melenchon-vs...
Tom O'Shea (@constantartifice.bsky.social) writes about James Connolly on this anniversary of the Easter Rising:
‘His thought and his life stand as compelling exemplars of a figure he would rightly praise: “the Socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom”
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‘His thought and his life stand as compelling exemplars of a figure he would rightly praise: “the Socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom”
newintermag.com/james-connol...
James Connolly, Socialist Republican
His thought and his life stand as compelling exemplars of a figure he would rightly praise: “the Socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom”.
newintermag.com
April 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Tom O'Shea (@constantartifice.bsky.social) writes about James Connolly on this anniversary of the Easter Rising:
‘His thought and his life stand as compelling exemplars of a figure he would rightly praise: “the Socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom”
newintermag.com/james-connol...
‘His thought and his life stand as compelling exemplars of a figure he would rightly praise: “the Socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom”
newintermag.com/james-connol...
Emre Öngün (@emreongun.bsky.social) writes about the revolt in Turkey, the “peace process” with Öcalan and the Kurds, the growing youth movement, and the resurgence of Kemalism.
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Turkey’s Political Crisis & Democratic Movement
Since the stated goal is now an inclusive republic, it becomes necessary to reinvent a past that supports it.
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April 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Emre Öngün (@emreongun.bsky.social) writes about the revolt in Turkey, the “peace process” with Öcalan and the Kurds, the growing youth movement, and the resurgence of Kemalism.
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Kate Willett (@katewillett.bsky.social) considers the groups funding and promoting the "Abundance" faction in the Democratic Party:
“Both Klein and the Tech Right agree on one thing: democracy interferes with the market’s ability to generate abundance.”
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“Both Klein and the Tech Right agree on one thing: democracy interferes with the market’s ability to generate abundance.”
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Abundance: Big Tech’s Bid for the Democratic Party
The Tech Right has gained major influence in Washington by funding Republicans. The Abundance faction has taken a different route: funding Democrats.
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April 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Kate Willett (@katewillett.bsky.social) considers the groups funding and promoting the "Abundance" faction in the Democratic Party:
“Both Klein and the Tech Right agree on one thing: democracy interferes with the market’s ability to generate abundance.”
newintermag.com/abundance-bi...
“Both Klein and the Tech Right agree on one thing: democracy interferes with the market’s ability to generate abundance.”
newintermag.com/abundance-bi...
Pierre-Yves Cadalen calls for a new form of politics given the climate crisis:
“Ecopower, then, can be rewritten as the form of power from which humankind will decide if our time will be indefinitely transitory, or if it will abruptly end.”
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“Ecopower, then, can be rewritten as the form of power from which humankind will decide if our time will be indefinitely transitory, or if it will abruptly end.”
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The Defeat of Biopolitics
Just as the pretension to ideally govern the climate failed, Biopolitics as a project to foster life also failed.
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April 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Pierre-Yves Cadalen calls for a new form of politics given the climate crisis:
“Ecopower, then, can be rewritten as the form of power from which humankind will decide if our time will be indefinitely transitory, or if it will abruptly end.”
newintermag.com/the-defeat-o...
“Ecopower, then, can be rewritten as the form of power from which humankind will decide if our time will be indefinitely transitory, or if it will abruptly end.”
newintermag.com/the-defeat-o...