A Red with an FBI Badge
On reactionary novelist James Ellroy and his Underworld USA trilogy’s surprising treatment of communism and anticommunism.
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Issue No. 14 | Spring 2014
A World to Win
Our special section on strategy features four pieces, each representing distinct tendencies on the Left.
Bad Science
Free-market academic research policies have unleashed medical quackery and scientific fraud, forcing consumers to pay premiums for discoveries we’ve already funded as taxpayers.
Bulletproof Neoliberalism
To understand how a body of thought became an era of capitalism requires more than intellectual history.
Change the People
A recent book on musician Fred Ho reveals some starting points for a modern radical avant-garde.
Crocodile Tears of the Wolf
The Wolf of Wall Street's eleventh hour Hail Mary doesn't atone for the rest of the film's gleeful celebration of rich assholes.
Free the Land: An Interview with Chokwe Lumumba
Chokwe Lumumba discusses popular power and the past and future of revolutionary struggle in the American South.
No Shortcuts
The need to develop a strategy that can cohere the different parts of our movement has never been clearer.
Occupy After Occupy
Its critics may disagree, but Occupy Wall Street’s legacy has been an enduring one.
Power Play
We need to get down to the work of building a radical civil society.
Reading Jhumpa Lahiri Politically
Jhumpa Lahiri’s failure in The Lowland is not one of style, but of sensibility. She has little investment in the spirit of the Naxalite movement she chooses to depict.
The New Protest Era
We are at the beginning of a new period of mass protests that will reshape American politics.
Unmaking Global Capitalism
Nine things to know about organizing in the belly of the beast.
Waiting for SCOTUS
By fixating on the Supreme Court, liberals have inherited the framers’ skepticism of popular sovereignty and mass politics.