"They will use the word 'gray' to describe the section of the city that has no neon advertisments" (Jenny Erpenbeck)

Some utter nonsense, really just drivel, the conclusion of which is edgy racism - this is the essence of Curtis Yarvin, the purest distillation of who he is as a person.

Forms Podcast Episode XXVI: Cliff Connolly on a New American Republic is now available. We discuss the @marxistunitygroup.bsky.social proposal for a DSA program, the need for a radical left, and @cliffconnolly.bsky.social's experience in mass politics. www.formspodcast.com/episode-xxvi...

She stands with the IDF.

AOCIA: "Yes, yes to the IDF!"

There's no good reason for pyramidal, bureaucratic, "democratic" structures in a 21st century left political movement, just like there is no longer any need for printed membership cards.

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.” newintermag.com/choice-is-no...

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...

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.” newintermag.com/donald-trump...

Donald J. Trump is a war criminal.

As a woke father, I can affirm that harmful gender stereotypes are taught to children in kindergarten. "Spider-Male is for boys, and the Ice Queen is for girls." "No, boys and girls can like what they want. Don't believe everything you hear at school." This is kindergarten.

One hour of justice is better than seventy years of fasting and prayer both day and night.

‏عدل ساعة خير من عبادة سبعين سنة قيام ليلها و صيام نهارها

War against a genocidal state, waged for the liberation of civilians, is just.

When I die, people will say "He marched with Rima Hassan." Solidarity forever

FREE PALESTINE

FREE RIMA FREE THIAGO FREE PALESTINE

LIBÉRATION INCONDITIONNELLE DE RIMA HASSAN ET DE L'EQUIPAGE HUMANITAIRE

'If these plans go ahead, 700,000 families already living in #poverty will face further devastation,” they write. “This is not reform; it is cruelty by policy.' More than 100 disabled celebrities urge Keir Starmer to scrap ‘inhumane’ benefit cuts #TakingThePIP www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

another reason not to trust telegram

i don’t know if bluesky is dying but the influx of resistance libs and the way they found their way into my replies definitely made it less fun for me personally and i use it less than i did a few months ago

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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.” newintermag.com/ocalans-last...

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.” newintermag.com/ai-as-class-...

Facebook isn’t just packed with AI slop; it’s also full of scammers looking for any opportunity to take advantage of you.

European friends, please sign this petition calling for a total ban on so-called "conversion therapy": eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

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” newintermag.com/assisted-sui...

The movement-form succeeds where the party and commune forms fail because it deemphasizes identity in favor of activity, thus generalizing and composing across a broader social base.

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-...

Struggle is not a subject.

Read my review of Mélenchon and Hollande's new books!

Comme aux USA, on commence à voir en France une "reactive orthodoxy", c'est-à-dire des gens qui veulent entrer dans l'Église orthodoxe pour des raisons idéologiques. Il y a une très belle mise au point à ce sujet dans la dernière lettre du vicariat français du Patriarcat Œcuménique.

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...

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...

American Cheka

Both Leninism and the party-form are historically outmoded.

Abolish ICE

the guy in the snapdragon commercial who uses ai to generate a bedtime story to tell his kids demonstrates that ai is really useful for inventing new and astonishing ways to be a loser

Begging white anglo journalists to stop doing white working class rhetoric in 2025. JD Vance is already vice president, you can stop talking as if corncob = proletariat.

FREE HANNAH DUGAN

Arguments with Bluesky liberals about Marx always remind me of this passage from Tolstoy about why so many Christians don't understand Christianity

Punishment Park was a documentary. youtu.be/LLsNO8cQpaU?...

Mélenchon speaks at CUNY: youtu.be/5Ivf71fXJSo?...

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.

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...

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. newintermag.com/turkeys-poli...

This is the critical thing to recognize about the so-called "abundance" agenda and the entire branch of YIMBYism it represents: Its intellectual foundations are fundamentally antidemocratic. It seeks to use the state to impose cultural consensus - and whose culture? Corporate Silicon Valley's.

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...