These six texts share a single concern: how political solidarity gets constructed, narrowed, and sometimes disabled by the frameworks through which societies under pressure are
Tag: Class Politics (en)
On the Laziness of Parroting “No War but Class War” There’s nothing radical about flexing theory on people who are being bombed and there’s something
From Phenomenal World China’s class politics after 1989 In April 1989, a series of explosive pro-democracy movements erupted across China. These movements and their political
August’s anti-government protests highlight the growth of a subculture of street protest that echoes the anti-Suharto activism of the 1990s. In opposing the new form
A major topic following Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election has been his gains with racial and ethnic minorities, a trend that’s scrambled
Historian David Roediger discusses some of the people who’ve influenced him,white workers and Black struggles in the U.S., and some aspects of anti-racisttheory and politics
Il Manifesto: What do you think of the migrant detention centres built by Italy’s Giorgia Meloni government in Albania? Lea Ypi: I think it is
Catarina Martins was the national coordinator of the Left Block, a democratic socialist political party in Portugal, from 2012 until 2023. She was elected a
At the end of 1965, the apparatchiks of the Communist Party of Ukraine received an outrageous samizdat – in Ukrainian: samvydav – entitled “Internationalism or
In 1983, 23 years after its independence and the succession of several neo-colonial regimes, the Upper Volta was one of the most materially destitute countries
This piece is a response to the wider debates continually raging around identity politics and class. It tackles the writing of Adolph Reed Jr., not