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Walking Zirgan

Turkish war crimes on Rojava’s front line

Our reporter went to Zirgan, a small city in Syria near the front lines of Erdoğan's war on Rojava. There he became an eyewitness to brutal Turkish war crimes.

Front Pages Online Reporting Social Movements

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.

Arthur Pye

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Can Fascism Think?

The deafening silence around Heidegger’s fascism has been broken – what does this mean for philosophy and politics?

R.K. Hegelman

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The Second Nakba and the Road to Genocide

Ethnic cleansing created the State of Israel. Is genocide now on the agenda?

Mason Herson-Hord

From Issue Two

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Consider the Dinosaur

Toward a philosophy of the asteroid

Dayton Martindale

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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

Wobbly Economics – Part I

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

The Ideology of Growth and its Origins

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

How They Paid for the War

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

Price Pressures

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

Do Interest Rate Hikes Worsen Inflation?

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

What Should Money Be Made From?

And who should have the power to create it?

Notes Toward a Theory of Inflation

Why do people raise prices?

Profiles & Character Sketches

The Soul of Man Under Fascism

Reading Gramsci’s prison letters in an age of catastrophe

Places & Spaces

On Work

A Pandemic Archive

Max Alvarez’s interviews record working-class perspectives on the age of COVID

A Division of Labor

A science fiction TV drama explores questions of slavery and self in the workplace

My McUnion

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

Culture, High & Low

Barry Jenkins’s Cinematic Technique

A formal analysis of If Beale Street Could Talk

Figure and Frame

Safi Faye's films invert the ethnologer's gaze on rural life in Senegal

Retro Shock

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

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

Front Pages

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The Illusion of a Renaissance

Jersey City’s political machine wants to push gentrification. Can there be another future?

Sudip Bhattacharya

Jersey City's political machine hijacks diversity to push for rent hikes.

An Historiography of Anarchism

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

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Cryptid

Toledo, OH | USA

Let me tell you the tale of the Toledo, OH cryptid.

Our much-anticipated Friendsgiving involves a twelve-person guestlist—I am the last to arrive. 12 freshly immigrated souls, left behind by their American peers who all (well, almost all) traveled home for the first time since summer.