Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist who has long lurked at the outer edges of the MAGAsphere, took a giant step toward the center last week.

Jordy Cummings reviewing @bornagainlabor.bsky.social 's Gothic Capitalism for Locust Review. www.locustreview.com/online/dude-...

www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma... 11/6 Speak out for Tom Alter!

Issue 12 is in the mail! With features by @redprof.bsky.social , Clara Mattei, Ilya Matveev, and @jferre.bsky.social.

We’re thrilled to release our new episode: an interview with Dr. @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social about the history & legacies of the Palestinian struggle for freedom. We discuss the Palestinian Liberation Movement here & abroad, & the challenges that have come with the fight. 🎧: bit.ly/rc2025emanabdehadi

spectrejournal.com/the-greatest... Hey y'all! This Tuesday we have Keith Rosenthal looking at Fiorello La Guardia's legacy in order to think about the obstacles and openings for socialist politics under a progressive mayor.

tempestmag.org/2025/10/elec... Spectre editor Shireen Akram-Boshar writing for Tempest.

October is in the books! Thanks to Abby Cunniff, Tish Turl, Tithi Bhattacharya , @dnbrgr.bsky.social , Dania Rajendra , @andrewosborne.bsky.social , and Laura Fair-Schulz! And thanks to Mithrella Curtis and @empowermentave.bsky.social for continuing our Incarcerated Writers series. Links 👇🏽

October is in the books! Thanks to Abby Cunniff, Tish Turl, Tithi Bhattacharya , @dnbrgr.bsky.social , Dania Rajendra , @andrewosborne.bsky.social , and Laura Fair-Schulz! And thanks to Mithrella Curtis and @empowermentave.bsky.social for continuing our Incarcerated Writers series. Links 👇🏽

ICYMI: @andrewosborne.bsky.social 's analysis of the capitalist dynamics exemplified by Jeffrey Epstein is still live on our website.

Hey y'all! This Friday we have Laura Fair-Schulz reviewing @bornagainlabor.bsky.social 's Gothic Capitalism (Revol Press) spectrejournal.com/review-of-ad...

Richard Solomon writing for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social . www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/syr...

soundcloud.com/user-7372679... David Camfield interviewing Alan Wald for Victor's Children

👀 Epstein’s trajectory exemplifies blackmail capitalism—an integral facet of contemporary mode of accumulation, reflecting its coercive & violent logics. For Epstein, far from being merely a lurid detail, the compulsive production of kompromat was structural engine of entire wealth-building scheme

Members of the Committee to Defend Tom Alter are asking you to sign a personalized version of one of the following letters (Links in thread 👇🏽 🧵). Tom is making a formal appeal for his unjust firing at Texas State. Please sign before the appeal's preliminary review on 11/10.

My new piece in @journalspectre.bsky.social on Jeffrey Epstein, blackmail, and primitive accumulation—analysing how kompromat became the structural engine of his wealth-building scheme, predetermining outcomes and entrenching power relations. spectrejournal.com/jeffrey-epst...

NEW: Hardwiring Normalization -- Infrastructures, Extraction and Gaza's Future Rafeef Ziadah encapsulates the material politics that tie the Abraham Accords to the plans for reconstruction in Gaza, and the continued dispossession of Palestinians. READ NOW

spectrejournal.com/jeffrey-epst... @andrewosborne.bsky.social analyzes the social dynamics that made Jeffrey Epstein an exemplar of capitalism violence before, ultimately, making him redundant

@adamcalo.bsky.social and Maywa Montenegro talking about agroecology and the problems with productivist solutions to hunger on Sustainability Now!

"Others may have bought more coal from Colombia than Israel did, but none had a similar fingerprint on the industry’s bloody takeoff." jewishcurrents.org/the-making-o...

ICYMI: Dania Rajendra and @dnbrgr.bsky.social 's "Israel is the Prison" is still live on our website.

New from me: The notion that Charlie Kirk represented speech “done right” is a smokescreen manufactured specifically to distract from the single greatest attack on free speech in the 21st century. Kirk wasn’t simply offering an opinion, he was right-wing power personified.

NEW: The Abraham Accords and Sudan's Global Counterrevolution" Bayan Abubakr demonstrates how the Accords "planted the seeds for the global co-optation of Sudan's popular revolution." buff.ly/VfkHeEe

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ICYMI: Tithi Bhattacharya's response to critiques of the US Palestine Solidarity movement is still live on our website.

youtu.be/-Yt1nLyHMPE?... Alessandra Mezzadri talking at the Social Reproduction Theory Online Lab.

www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma... 11/6 Speak out for Tom Alter!

ICYMI - Kevin Gray on last year's attempted "self coup" in South Korea. We spoke about the Korean right's roots in the Japanese occupation, the US role in rehabilitating Korean collaborators, and the constituency of the far-right in South Korea today:

Spectre's own Shireen Akram-Boshar writing for @truthout.org .

spectrejournal.com/israel-is-th... Hey y'all! This week we have Dania Rajendra and @dnbrgr.bsky.social writing about the Palestinian solidarity movement and the international resistance to carceral Zionism.

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The Trump administration is investigating Open Society Foundations as part of a broader crackdown on progressive organizing. The DOJ directive to scrutinize OSF cited a conservative think tank's report attacking the fund for donating to Palestinian rights groups. jewishcurrents.org/the-anti-sor...

Congrats Tithi and Sue ( @plutopress.bsky.social ) www.plutobooks.com/product/maki...

ICYMI: Tish Turl's piece on class revenge fanfiction is still up on our website:

Tithi Bhattacharya responds to Eric Blanc, Bashir Abu-Manneh, and Hoda Mitwally's recent criticisms of the US Palestine solidarity movement. spectrejournal.com/there-are-no...

New @thedigradio.bsky.social: SECOND of two w @melindacooper.bsky.social on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. How asset boom and bust drove MAGA’s rise and also revealed powerful monetary tools that could make socialism—that and more www.thedigradio.com/podcast/from...

New from me at @therealnews.com: I am reporting from the ICE demonstration in Portland as federal officers escalate violence against demonstrators, and the threat of national guard troops could ignite the mass demonstrations. therealnews.com/violence-at-...

Raffaele Sciortino talking to @clearinghouse77.bsky.social. clearinghouse.noblogs.org/post/2025/10...

In his final article on rs21’s key political ideas, DK Renton explains why we can’t take over the state – we need to smash it to create a new world of freedom. revsoc21.uk/2025/10/10/b...

re-upping the gofundme page for Tom and his family www.gofundme.com/f/support-fr...

spectrejournal.com/class-revenge-… Hey y'all! This week we have Tish Turl writing on fanfiction as a form of class revenge.

Please sign the petition calling for Tom Alter's reinstatement. Explanation at the link where you can sign. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"When feminist struggles enter phases of rapprochement with the state, they throw Indigenous, 'deviant,' Black, sexualized, sex-working women and other gender minorities under the bus." @reproutopia.bsky.social talks with Aya Gruber about truly abolitionist feminism.

"Staring down the path of existential destruction..." - @philbc3 on how the Conservatives' voter coalition is breaking apart as they lose their Gen X voters to Reform:

Blood on My Hands: My Confidant's Actions Branded me Violent, is the latest in our incarcerated writers series with @empowermentave.bsky.social. It offers a deeply personal reflection about the experience of being convicted of "aiding and abetting" violence. spectrejournal.com/blood-on-my-...

www.eventbrite.ca/e/david-mcna... If you're in Toronto, this is tonight (10/9). Space is limited so RSVP. @anotherstoryto.bsky.social

China Miéville writing for Salvage. salvage.zone/beyond-folk-...

Dan Denvir talking to Melinda Cooper for @thedigradio.bsky.social . Good stuff

Earlier this year, incarcerated firefighters in LA rushed headlong into the flames, fending off catastrophic fires (made worse by climate change). In their new essay, Abby Cunniff reminds us of the long history of their labor abolitionist politics. spectrejournal.com/the-abolitio...