My brief contribution is about Substack. Many thanks to the incredible team at The Drift.

How to Hold a City Hostage Historian Stuart Schrader on the untold history of police unions—and how they helped catapult cops to new heights of power and impunity.

“Police learned from—in some cases, literally stole ideas from—organized labor without preserving the fundamental principle of solidarity at the core of the labor movement.”

@stschrader1.bsky.social on his new book, BLUE POWER: HOW POLICE ORGANIZED TO PROTECT AND SERVE THEMSELVES:

Affordability or Crisis of Social Reproduction? – Spectre Journal Kim Moody breaks down what the affordability crisis really means—a crisis of social reproduction created by the radical inequality of wealth.

Read Kim Moody challenging the "affordability" framing of the cost-of- living crisis, arguing it obscures the class-based assault on workers' social reproduction.

spectrejournal.com/affordabilit...

As a pre-2019 Raptors fan, losing to the Cavs like this is very triggering

“…to build socialist democracies worldwide” – Spectre Journal In this review of Rosenblum;'s We're Comning for You and Your Rotten System, John Clarke points to the successes of Sawant's tenure in Seattle, while critically appraising the movement's success at bu...

My review for @journalspectre.bsky.social of 'We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System' and the important account it offers of the struggles that were taken up during #KshamaSawant’s ten years as a socialist city council member in Seattle.
spectrejournal.com/to-build-soc...

Marx's Ethical Vision Abstract. “The communists do not preach morality at all”; this line from The Communist Manifesto might seem to settle the question of whether Marxism has a

Marx's Ethical Vision is available at @academic.oup.com .

academic.oup.com/book/57415

@journalspectre.bsky.social, an interdisciplinary publication of the revolutionary left, has partnered with Exact Editions to offer institutional subscriptions worldwide.

The Exact Editions platform offers cross-device, IP-authenticated and remote access. 📰

was that it's moralization of theory would push discourse on the left further towards the kind of partisan infighting that makes theoretical and strategic reflection on imperialism impossible.

That, and its just bad theory.

Not a ton of people read this, and most who did interpreted in terms of a campist/anticampist debate that i don't particularly care about.

However, when I wrote this review my main problem with the Losurdo/Rockhill line

Yep. Even more grim because we actually do need to have open debates about imperialism, but they just get shut down by this bullshit Dengist grift.

The whole Losurdo thing is just the death of our intellectual culture

Now out from beyond our paywall: read Hector Rivera's analysis of the settler colonial roots of the ICE occupation of LA and call for Chicano Internationalism.

spectrejournal.com/from-nepantl...

US Imperialism: Projecting strength to cover up weakness - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung As US hegemony crumbles, Trump lashes out at countries such as Iran or Venezuela in order to hit his true target - an every strengthening China

From Iran to Venezuela, US aggression reveals a crisis of hegemony. As China rises, what McNally calls the “Trumpian model of capitalism” revolves around military invasions, tariff wars, and manic deal-making.

Our editor-in-chief @redprof.bsky.social writing for @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social .

ICYMI: Elaine Wik's analysis of Indo-Bangladeshi border conflict is still live on our website.

Social Constitution and Fetishistic Social Domination (with Chris O'Kane, Sam Fisher, and Rob Knox) YouTube video by Historical Materialism: Critical Marxist Theory

video of my book launch is now up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQhv...

“…to build socialist democracies worldwide” – Spectre Journal In this review of Rosenblum;'s We're Comning for You and Your Rotten System, John Clarke points to the successes of Sawant's tenure in Seattle, while critically appraising the movement's success at bu...

spectrejournal.com/to-build-soc...

@johncke.bsky.social reviews @jonathan4212.bsky.social 's "We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System" ( @orbooks.bsky.social ), reflecting on the wins, losses, and lessons from Kshama Sawant's tenure as a Seattle Council Member.

Spectre editor Camila Valle writing for The Latinx Project.

www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxion...

Tomorrow (4/16)!

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The Generosity of Fredric Jameson – Spectre Journal Robert T. Tally pays tribute to Fredric Jameson's tremendous generosity, that is, the late theorist's drive to both know the world and change it for the better.

spectrejournal.com/the-generosi...

Happy Birthday to Fred Jameson, who would have turned 92 today.

Read @roberttally.bsky.social 's 2024 memorial to Fred.

Toward an Iranian Socialism – Spectre Journal Robab Vaziri traces the dilemma between theocracy and monarchy to the history of imperial intervention, arguing for a democratic and socialist Iran.

Read Robab Vaziri trace the dilemma between theocracy and monarchy to the history of foreign intervention into Iran, arguing that that prospects of Iranian democracy and Iranian socialism are deeply intertwined.

spectrejournal.com/toward-an-ir...

America, War, and Imperial Decline in the Gulf The US–Israeli war on Iran is the latest phase of the United States’ long-war in the Persian Gulf, a fifty-year project to secure imperial power in a region defined as a “vital interest” since the 197...

Toby C. Jones writing for @jadaliyya.bsky.social .

www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47300

Kim Moidy writing for @tempestcollective.bsky.social

Tomorrow (4/14)!

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A Lack of Democracy in the United Farm Workers Gave Chavez Immunity In 2011 Frank Bardacke published an 800-page history of the Farm Workers union: Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers. It opened many eyes to the reasons...

"I’m for taking down the [Chavez] statues and renaming the schools and the streets. If you want to give them a name of a farmworker, give them the name of one of the reps who are still known in the fields," writes longtime labor activist and author Frank Bardacke.
labornotes.org/2026/04/lack...

The fertility rate has been falling since 2007, a trend that has become something of a demographic mystery. The drop began during the Great Recession, and experts first attributed it to the sharp economic downturn, following a common historical pattern. But the rate has continued to drop, and demographers have been trying to understand why.

"Demographers don't have a singular explanation that a reporter can package into a neat little blurb" does not equal "it's a demographic mystery"

ICYMI: Cinzia Arruzza's review of Nancy Holmstrom's From a Marxist-Feminist Point of View ( @histmat.bsky.social , @haymarketbooks.org ) is still live on our website.

Health Sovereignty in Palestine: A Conversation Between Mary Turfah and Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah • Protean Magazine In this long conversation, Mary Turfah talks with Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah about health sovereignty in Palestine, the coloniality of Western NGOs, the centrality of healthcare to the genocide in Palesti...

“Nothing will get better until Zionism is defeated—not until there’s a Palestinian state, until Zionism, as the ideological machine that produces Israel, that produces these policies of murder & genocide & destruction, is defeated.”

@proteanmag.com essential reading: proteanmag.com/2026/04/02/h...

The Hormuz oil shock has made it possible to see how American hegemony ends. A brilliant new essay by @mona-ali.bsky.social on the ‘hydrocarbon dollar complex’ and the emergence of a new international order: