Trump’s Tariff Fantasy
The Trump administration’s latest tariff proposal assumes that other countries will quietly absorb the cost of import duties. But tariffs don’t work like that. They never have.
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The Trump administration’s latest tariff proposal assumes that other countries will quietly absorb the cost of import duties. But tariffs don’t work like that. They never have.
On Édouard Louis’s The End of Eddy
The long 20th century has ended, not with a transition to something new, but with the collapse of what once was, neoliberalism has failed, but nothing has yet replaced it, and in the absence of a left alternative, the far right alone moves to seize the ruins.
On Tariffs, Crypto, and the Class Logic of Trump’s Economic Nationalism
In Mythocracy, Yves Citton argues that the left must learn to fight not just with facts or programmes, but with stories that shape the atmosphere of power itself.
Stephen Graham Jones’s The Buffalo Hunter asks what it means to inherit a story that was never meant to be read.
Dismantling Inequality: A Bold Vision for a Marxist Police Reform – Delve into an exploration of community-based alternatives to the traditional Metropolitan Police, as we imagine a world where law enforcement aligns with our values and drives societal transformation.
The Metropolitan Police’s deep-rooted issues demand a comprehensive overhaul, leading to the urgent question: is it time to dismantle the Met and rebuild a force that truly serves London’s diverse communities?
Through the ideas of Stuart Hall, this post looks at the persistent problems of the Metropolitan Police and the complicated relationship between policing, power, and social inequality.
What are police? For a marxist, that is an easy question to answer, they are a tool of the ruling class, serving to maintain social control and protect private property interests.
If the left can’t come together to fight the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill, is that it for mass protest?