New Future

Jacqui Germain reflects on the difficulties and tasks facing the leftist artist in a cultural space geared towards the political right.

Kwaneta Harris reflects on a justice system that pardons those who violently attack it, while refusing clemency to those it abuses.

Replying to Immanuel Ness and John Bellamy Foster, Michael Pröbsting argues that the People's Republic of China is both capitalist and imperialist.

DK Renton looks to historic fascism to analyze the direction of Trump's authoritarianism and for examples of a counterpolitics to fight it.

Arguing that space is an arrangement of social relationships, Zara Cadoux examines Abolish Rent as both an organizing tool and a work of public geography.

Phil Neel challenges the view of China as a challenger to US hegemony, arguing that hegemony produces the turbulent politics read as a sign of its demise.

Reflecting on Abolish Rent, Ben Teresa argues that policymaking must become a “way stations of tenant power, ” rather than an adjustment to market realities.

Focusing on nationalism, Jacob Wilson evaluates Streeck and Merchant's respective responses to capitalism. Is left anticapitalist nationalism possible?

Drawing on Rosenthal and Vilchis's Abolish Rent and Ross's The Commune Form, Julian Francis Park argues that communism must traverse the rural/urban divide.

Giorgi Kartveshlishvili and Giorgi Khasaia argue for a robust anti-neoliberal politics as a solution to the liberal deadlock of narrowly political demands.

Neoliberalism enforces family responsibility with a cruel logic: a couple who can’t afford rent without both their incomes are a couple who stick together. A young adult who can’t afford college without student loans is a child who remains bound to her parent. Lack of public spending on public goods forces poor and working-class people into economic dependence on their relatives. Meanwhile, for the rich, the private family is reinforced as a main conduit for wealth transmission.

Amidst the US governments' attacks on migrants, Camilo Pérez-Bustillo argues for an anticolonial movement demanding all rights for all, without borders.

Alice Taylor reviews Fernando Morais's Lula: A Biography, arguing that Morais's focus on Lula ignores the political context and shifting role of Lulismo.

susie day talks with Arun Kundnani about the unfortunately forgotten H. Rap Brown. Brown, now Imam Jamil Al-Amin, urgently needs medical care unavailable to him in prison.