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  1. "Taking the Civil War as his starting point for this trenchant survey of the #AmericanLeft, Hartman offers us dozens of portraits of #Marxism’s main protagonists [...] and charts their triumphs and travails all the way up to the present."

    Robin Blackburn reviews #AndrewHartman's #KarlMarxInAmerica

    thenation.com/article/society/

    #Marx #AmericanMarxism #USleft #UShistory #AmericanHistory #USpolitics #books @bookstodon

  2. #HaymarketBooks | #Trump's Hammer, Our Hope

    "Join Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for an emergency town hall on the continuing attacks on both marginalized communities and on #freeSpeech at the hands of the current administration."

    youtu.be/9vP5p_oTmZU
    #USpol #USpolitics #MAGA #stateRepression #civilLiberties #civilRights #USleft #AmericanLeft #activism #leftActivism #leftOrganizing #antifascism #antiracism

  3. "From Elon #Musk’s hostile takeover of core government functions, to the #Trump family's vision for remaking #Gaza into another Dubai, we are witnessing the extension of corporate power across the globe at an unprecedented pace."

    An emergency town hall via #HaymarketBooks w/ Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

    youtu.be/iyLiNN_NMO4
    #USpol #USpolitics #MAGA #oligarchy #droitisation #USleft #AmericanLeft #leftActivism #politicalActivism #antifascism

  4. "The weakness of the #AmericanLeft is increasingly a European problem because an imperial core without a proper #left opposition is going to let the US or the hegemon export destruction and regression across the globe."

    Great interview w/ #AntonJäger on the #AmericanPrestige pod about the state of #USpolitics, #AmericanLiberalism, the #USleft, and the implications of the #2024election for mass movements and #geopolitics

    americanprestige.supportingcas
    #USpol #PoliticalTheory #TheEvilOfTwoLessers

  5. "What strikes me most is just the slickness of the artifice, and I think they made a really kind of strange decision just from an affect perspective to go with "Joy" in a genocide and [as they] keep the genocide going..."

    Beyond the Ballot: The #Left in a Time of #Polycrisis

    A special conversation w/ Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Chenjerai Kumanyikaf

    youtu.be/PN0O82HsP_g
    #USLeft #AmericanLeft #USpol #USpolitics #2024election #TheEvilOfTwoLessers

  6. "[A] famous movie, Exodus .. tells the story essentially as a US western, and so basically makes #Israel into a Gary Cooper film, where they're out in the desert taking on the indigenous people heroically.."

    #BenjaminBalthaser discusses evolving Jewish American perceptions of Zionism & his new book #CitizensOfTheWholeWorld: The #AmericanJewishLeft and Cultures of #AntiZionism

    youtu.be/sYvhWfiuFjg
    #Palestine #PalestineQuestion #USLeft #AmericanLeft #CPUSA #NewLeft #USpol #books @palestine

  7. "In this panel, members of the French and #AmericanLeft come together to discuss the ongoing movement in #SolidarityWithPalestine and its struggles against #Israel’s War in #Gaza, and the growing repression faced by this movement in #France and the United States."

    The #FrenchLeft in Solidarity with #Palestine: A Conversation w/ #MathildePanot (#LFI)

    youtu.be/jW5IeIrbGUg
    #GaucheFr #GaucheFrançaise #SolidaritéAvecLaPalestine #PalestineSolidarity #JVP #DSA #PolFR #USPol #PolitiqueFrançaise