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A Political History of the NFL Jersey

The evolution of the professional football jersey tracks that of racial capitalism, technology, and empire

In its design and symbolism as much as its materials and production, the NFL jersey is an artifact of an industrial society shaped by racism and capitalism.

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The Hero as a Drifting Shadow

The latest novel by the mysterious Joseph Andras gathers traces of Ho Chi Minh’s pre-revolutionary youth

Jim Henderson

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The Double Counterinsurgency

How an American tradition of popular sovereignty gave way to COINTELPRO with a ‘progressive’ face

Johnny Tran

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Capitalism Storms the Heavens

The coming decades will see the rise of new space industries – and new labor issues

Beka Valentine

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Beyond Ethnostatism

The Austro-Marxists’ solution to “class vs. identity” was a politics of cultural autonomy

Daniel Wortel-London

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Between Flood and Famine

In Mozambique, the green transition comes up against corruption and imperialism

Andrew Mambondiyani

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Essequibo, or the Persistence of El Dorado

The origins and meaning of the conflict involving Venezuela and Guyana

Simón Rodríguez

Back Pages Issue 3 Poetry

“Great Minds” & Other Poems

Katherine Frain

Editorials Front Pages Issue 3

Can Technology Save Us?

The Left’s wires are crossed about technology. We hack away at the Gordian knot.

The Editors

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Price Pressures

It's people who set prices; let's ask them how and why they do it

Alex Vuocolo

Political Economy & Planning

Do Interest Rate Hikes Worsen Inflation?

Central bankers want to pull on one lever to lower prices; history shows this might raise them

Wobbly Economics – Part I

Why Frederic S Lee was the greatest economist you’ve never heard of

What Should Money Be Made From?

And who should have the power to create it?

Price Pressures

It's people who set prices; let's ask them how and why they do it

How They Paid for the War

Social democrats should fight climate change the way we fought the Axis Powers

The Ideology of Growth and its Origins

Our growth fetish has its roots in material and cultural transformations; so too will degrowth

Notes Toward a Theory of Inflation

Why do people raise prices?

Editorials

Can Technology Save Us?

The Left’s wires are crossed about technology. We hack away at the Gordian knot.

An assemblage of colorful, elementary, 3D shapes.

Words for our Present Reality

A Modest Proposal for a New and Living Ontology

Reporting

Price Pressures

It's people who set prices; let's ask them how and why they do it

Social Movements

An Historiography of Anarchism

Global anarchist history reveals the fundamental unity of the tradition, along with its key lines of debate and disagreement

Hope and Contradictions: My Year in Rojava

Our correspondent spent a year living in North-East Syria. These are his first reflections on the experience.

My McUnion

A fast-food worker learns unionization tactics while working to organize their restaurant

Culture, High & Low

Retro Shock

When the world's a cyberpunk dystopia, where does the genre go next?

Two New Albums by Sufjan Stevens!

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Dream City

Drifting through the city with Modiano and the Situationists

The Ideology of Growth and its Origins

Our growth fetish has its roots in material and cultural transformations; so too will degrowth

Matthias Schmelzer, Aaron Vansintjan and Andrea Vetter

The Ideology of Growth and its Origins

Our growth fetish has its roots in material and cultural transformations; so too will degrowth

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Editorials Front Pages Issue 3

Can Technology Save Us?

The Left’s wires are crossed about technology. We hack away at the Gordian knot.

The Editors

Light bulb cartels, technocratic cults, world-wide web, world-ending nukes: would a socialism that takes tech seriously be for it or against it?

Owner’s Remorse

Blockchain elites believe everyone deserves a stake in the internet. Will we all be equal stakeholders in Web3?

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Chess Story by Stefan Zweig is the perfect Christmas gift. It’s short enough to read in one sitting and its prose is practically see-through. Every year, I’m tempted to give my copy to a friend, adorned with a handwritten note on the inside flap. But I never will. It’s too...