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I wrote about the two separate occasions @newpersonalism.bsky.social visited Delaney Hall in solidarity with those imprisoned and to minister to their families waiting to see them. It struck me how banal the guards were in their cruelty there, and how there will soon be more, bigger prisons like it.

Notes from an ICE Camp The nation has built the Gates of Hell and our representatives of both parties preside over them with corporate banality.

Jaime Pettit writes about ICE and the New Personalist intervention in New Jersey:

“The nation has built the Gates of Hell [...] All that we can do is push back against the inferno in whatever way we can.”

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One of my translations was just published in New International magazine. Amin’s “Syria After Assad” reflects on how Syria is being reckoned with after the regime’s collapse. Translating it meant staying close to a very tangible grief that I cannot pretend to understand.

Syria After Assad Syria faces a last chance to avoid a second civil war.

Azzam Amin writes about the social composition of Syria and the stakes of this precarious moment:

“For the moment, Damascus’s new leaders have presented no clear vision for what power will look like after the transition period.”

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Servility Produces War There is no good empire and there are no good invasions—only evil.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon spoke at a rally in Paris against US attacks on Venezuela:

“At this hour, there is nothing but manifest aggression by the empire, meant to secure its domination over the Americas and over Europe. That is all.”

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Jaures’ Last Plea for Peace There is no better chance to keep the peace and save civilization than for the proletariat to assemble all its forces.

Henry Wallis invites us to consider the last speech Jean Jaurès ever gave before his assassination and the outbreak of the First World War in a new translation. Happy New Year!

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Putin’s Terror Turns Left “Enemies of the people” are everywhere. They might even be the majority.

Alexey Sakhnin writes about Russia’s increasing repression of the left:

‘Now “crime” is no longer limited to taking action in the street or posting on social media, but includes merely talking in a factory smokeroom or posting in a group chat [...]’

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Washington is no Ally US imperialism no longer pulls punches: Europe is a vassal to be re-educated.

Delighted that my latest translation for @newintermag.bsky.social is now live. Arnaud Le Gall argues the new U.S. National Security Strategy treats Europe as a subordinate to be disciplined through NATO & technological dependence. He calls for European strategic independence via non-alignment.

Arnaud Le Gall analyzes Trump’s National Security Strategy:

‘The newly unabashed U.S. imperialism no longer targets “only” South America. The NSS pulls no punches: Washington officially views Europe as a vassal to be re-educated.’

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The Israeli strikes may have inadvertently weakened the very safeguards they were intended to reinforce. By attacking Iranian nuclear facilities, Israel has disrupted the IAEA’s ability to inspect and monitor key sites such as Natanz and Fordow. Surveillance has been suspended or significantly reduced, limiting international visibility into Iran’s nuclear activities.8 In response, Iranian officials have threatened to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty—a move that would dismantle the last formal mechanisms of international oversight. Meanwhile, political discourse within Iran has begun to shift. Figures who once adhered to the country’s long-standing taboo against nuclear weapons are now publicly questioning that restraint. The previous posture of maintaining technical capacity without pursuing a weapon may give way to a more openly confrontational stance. Rather than halting Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Israel’s campaign has obscured them further and expanded the domestic political space for weaponization.

I wrote this piece for @newintermag.bsky.social in June after Israel’s lawless aerial bombardment of Iran. Watch this space as we see tensions between the IAEA and Iran are likely to heat up in the coming weeks.

Israel's Narcotic War The IDF have been openly working with gangs in Gaza to steal aid from the Palestinians and undermine the effort to relieve the famine.

Thomas Necchi writes:

“[...] the IDF have been openly working with gangs in Gaza to steal aid from the Palestinians, to undermine the effort to relieve the famine.”

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Our Time is Now The slogan keeps alive a concept that the counterrevolutionary terror of the past years has sought to kill entirely—that history can, if we fight, belong to us.

A.M. Gittlitz writes about Zohran Mamdani’s inspiring win:

“Mamdani’s victory, while a clear demand for the Democrats to get up and join the fight, also communicates the understanding that it will more likely be against them.”

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The Pankhurst Reign of Terror It is difficult to square the liberal notion of suffragettes as respectable ladies sewing banners with the reality of women who actively encouraged violence.

Kate Burgos writes on the contradictions of contemporary political memory:

“It is difficult to square the liberal notion of suffragettes as respectable ladies sewing banners with the reality of women who actively encouraged violence.”

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Revisionism Revisited Losurdo revised Marx, Engels, and Lenin whenever their theories did not conform to the faits accompli of actually-existing socialism.

Ross Wolfe concludes his critique of Losurdo's “worthless” work:

“Its influence in the current online Stalinist revival attests to the extent to which defeat can be repackaged and sold as victory.”

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Losurdo's Lies His readings are so tendentious as to strain credibility.

Ross Wolfe untagles Domenico Losurdo's supposedly decolonial critiques of Western Marxists: "Losurdo’s specific accusations against them feel haphazard. The only consistent feature throughout is his dishonesty."

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Against Losurdo His intellectual output constitutes nothing less than the (re)entry of Stalinism into the realm of philosophy.

Ross Wolfe tackles Domenico Losurdo's work as "a new school of falsification, all in service of justifying the course history has taken. Everything he wrote had to align with the geopolitical interests of [a] few nominally socialist states"

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Choice is Not Freedom Genuine freedom is not like selecting a dish from a menu.

James Holmes writes about the notion of choice in contemporary liberal democracy:

“Genuine freedom is not like selecting a dish from a menu; instead, it’s more like the ability to create a new dish and perhaps to prepare a whole other menu.”

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The Global March to Gaza The Sisi government blocked life-saving aid from reaching starving Palestinians.

Meriem Hadjal recounts her experience of the Global March to Gaza:

“June 12, 2025, was a historic date. More than 4,000 people from around the world gathered in Cairo for an unprecedented act of solidarity with the Palestinian people.”

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Donald Trump’s Idolatrous Ideology Trump honors a god made for measure: one of war.

Foucauld Giuliani writes that Trump’s theology:

“[...] resolves to the legitimation of war, deification of force, and sanctification of death; it is a theology of power and violence; a non-Christian and anti-evangelical heresy.”

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I joined
@josiahwsutton.bsky.social
on “Fruitless” to talk about what’s going on in Iran.

Iran, Israel, & the Logic of Escalation The substance of the international order is state violence with impunity.

Keanu Heydari writes about the Iran-Israel conflict:

"The architecture of escalation, therefore, is not a disruption of the international order; it is its method."

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YouTube video by C. Derick Varn Radical Engagements: "Abundance: Big Tech's Bid for the Democratic Party" by Kate Willett

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Öcalan’s Last Call The dissolution of the PKK should not be viewed as a surrender or as a victory for the Turkish state.

Alice Celik writes about the dissolution of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK):

“[...] armed struggle is over; now is the time for a political strategy. A risky but calculated move, in response to a profound popular aspiration.”

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‘AI’ as Class Warfare So-called ‘AI’ does not reduce, but rather diffuses and renders labour practically invisible.

Adam Jones (@sanktmaxtci.bsky.social) reads “AI” politically:

“Data centres function as an increasingly central part of the nervous system of an imperial, techno-capitalist order. Democratic politics holds the right to question their present and future existence.”

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Assisted Suicide, or Social Murder? The UK cuts welfare and offers death.

Joe Gallagher (@joedgallagher.bsky.social) writes about how UK cuts to healthcare paired with end-of-life legislation threaten the disabled:

“For many it will be coercive euthanasia, an expansion of quotidian violence”

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The People’s Pope Francis’ small but radical acts embodied a theology of closeness: the conviction that Christ is found not in power, but in proximity to those the world forgets.

Mary Clare O'Donnell (@maryclareod11.bsky.social ) writes about Pope Francis' legacy:

“Francis continuously returned his focus to the margins [...] he would kneel before women, Muslims, and prisoners, washing their feet, as Jesus did in the New Testament.”

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James Connolly, Socialist Republican His thought and his life stand as compelling exemplars of a figure he would rightly praise: “the Socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom”.

My essay on the life and thought of James Connolly is now up at New International, just in time for the 109th anniversary of the Easter Rising.

Read my review of Mélenchon and Hollande's new books!