@journalspectre.bsky.social
Marxist journal that understands anti-oppression struggles as constitutive of class struggle. Pro-Black, pro-queer, and resolutely internationalist.
Pinned
Issue 12 is in the mail!
With features by @redprof.bsky.social , Clara Mattei, Ilya Matveev, and @jferre.bsky.social.
With features by @redprof.bsky.social , Clara Mattei, Ilya Matveev, and @jferre.bsky.social.
spectrejournal.com/the-crisis-o...
Second part of our two week run of pieces on feminist struggle in China.
Ralf Ruckus interview @yige-dong.bsky.social .
Second part of our two week run of pieces on feminist struggle in China.
Ralf Ruckus interview @yige-dong.bsky.social .
The Crisis of Social Reproduction, Women’s Agency, and Feminism in China – Spectre Journal
Ralf Ruckus interviews Yige Dong on the crisis of social reproduction in China, highlighting left feminisms and expanding women's agency
spectrejournal.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
spectrejournal.com/the-crisis-o...
Second part of our two week run of pieces on feminist struggle in China.
Ralf Ruckus interview @yige-dong.bsky.social .
Second part of our two week run of pieces on feminist struggle in China.
Ralf Ruckus interview @yige-dong.bsky.social .
Reposted
One of the critiques of Everything for Everyone, mostly from men, was its lack of focus on production, manufacturing and industrial restructuring. There are references, but mostly background. Well, I wrote an Everything for Everyone story about all those things. Hear an abbreviated version tonight!
This Tuesday I'll be joining Jasper Bernes in discussion, talking about his book The Future of Revolution. I'll be reading from a SF story I was wrote in response. It's about about revolutionary factory workers in Brazil, set in the world of Everything for Everyone. www.e-flux.com/events/67832...
The Future of Revolution: Jasper Bernes with M. E. O’Brien - Events - e-flux
Join us for a presentation by Jasper Bernes, followed by a response from M. E. O’Brien.
www.e-flux.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
One of the critiques of Everything for Everyone, mostly from men, was its lack of focus on production, manufacturing and industrial restructuring. There are references, but mostly background. Well, I wrote an Everything for Everyone story about all those things. Hear an abbreviated version tonight!
Reposted
How Declining Fertility, Disrupted Social Reproduction, and Women’s Resistance Undermine CCP Capitalism
spectrejournal.com/chinas-other...
Hey y'all, our next two pieces will on social reproduction theory in the PCR.
First up, we have Ralf Ruckus writing on challenge posed by social reproduction to Chinese capitalists and its impact on working class families.
Hey y'all, our next two pieces will on social reproduction theory in the PCR.
First up, we have Ralf Ruckus writing on challenge posed by social reproduction to Chinese capitalists and its impact on working class families.
China’s Other Crisis – Spectre Journal
The People’s Republic of China has been hit by capitalism’s historical tendency toward fertility decline, a result of both increasing economic burdens on the proletariat and women’s resistance. So far...
spectrejournal.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
How Declining Fertility, Disrupted Social Reproduction, and Women’s Resistance Undermine CCP Capitalism
If you haven't read this piece by @andrewosborne.bsky.social yet, you can find it in our archive.
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
If you haven't read this piece by @andrewosborne.bsky.social yet, you can find it in our archive.
Reposted
My new article "Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common" now published in Area Development and Policy (open access)!!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common
This paper critically examines the emerging discourse on technofeudalism. While mainstream narratives celebrate technological advancement driven by American tech giants, proponents of the technofeu...
www.tandfonline.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
My new article "Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common" now published in Area Development and Policy (open access)!!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
ICYMI: Keith Rosenthal's reappraisal of Fiorello La Guardia's historical legacy is still live on our website.
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
ICYMI: Keith Rosenthal's reappraisal of Fiorello La Guardia's historical legacy is still live on our website.
Hakan Yilmaz reviewing David Camfield's Red Flags ( @fernpub.bsky.social ) for Tempest.
tempestmag.org/2025/11/actu...
tempestmag.org/2025/11/actu...
“Actually existing socialism” and the communist transition
A review of David Camfield’s new book Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left by David Camfield.
tempestmag.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Hakan Yilmaz reviewing David Camfield's Red Flags ( @fernpub.bsky.social ) for Tempest.
tempestmag.org/2025/11/actu...
tempestmag.org/2025/11/actu...
Congrats to @brunoleipold.com for winning the 2025 Deutscher Prize for Citizen Marx ( @princetonupress.bsky.social )
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Congrats to @brunoleipold.com for winning the 2025 Deutscher Prize for Citizen Marx ( @princetonupress.bsky.social )
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
If you're still in London, you can catch a book discussion with Tithi Bhattacharya on her Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence ( @dukepress.bsky.social
)
Thursday 11/13, 5-7pm GMT
@soasuni.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/soas-book-...
)
Thursday 11/13, 5-7pm GMT
@soasuni.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/soas-book-...
November 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
If you're still in London, you can catch a book discussion with Tithi Bhattacharya on her Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence ( @dukepress.bsky.social
)
Thursday 11/13, 5-7pm GMT
@soasuni.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/soas-book-...
)
Thursday 11/13, 5-7pm GMT
@soasuni.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/soas-book-...
In case anyone wants to vent some spleen, we're reposting @dnbrgr.bsky.social 's July review of Chuck Schumer's biography.
spectrejournal.com/chuck-schume...
spectrejournal.com/chuck-schume...
Chuck Schumer in America—A Warning – Spectre Journal
Dan Berger reviews Chuck Schumer's very bad, no good, awful book.
spectrejournal.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
In case anyone wants to vent some spleen, we're reposting @dnbrgr.bsky.social 's July review of Chuck Schumer's biography.
spectrejournal.com/chuck-schume...
spectrejournal.com/chuck-schume...
spectrejournal.com/chinas-other...
Hey y'all, our next two pieces will on social reproduction theory in the PCR.
First up, we have Ralf Ruckus writing on challenge posed by social reproduction to Chinese capitalists and its impact on working class families.
Hey y'all, our next two pieces will on social reproduction theory in the PCR.
First up, we have Ralf Ruckus writing on challenge posed by social reproduction to Chinese capitalists and its impact on working class families.
China’s Other Crisis – Spectre Journal
The People’s Republic of China has been hit by capitalism’s historical tendency toward fertility decline, a result of both increasing economic burdens on the proletariat and women’s resistance. So far...
spectrejournal.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
spectrejournal.com/chinas-other...
Hey y'all, our next two pieces will on social reproduction theory in the PCR.
First up, we have Ralf Ruckus writing on challenge posed by social reproduction to Chinese capitalists and its impact on working class families.
Hey y'all, our next two pieces will on social reproduction theory in the PCR.
First up, we have Ralf Ruckus writing on challenge posed by social reproduction to Chinese capitalists and its impact on working class families.
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Reposted
Issue 4 pre-orders coming soon
November 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Issue 4 pre-orders coming soon
November 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Reposted
NOW ON SALE: PINKO MAGAZINE ISSUE 4! 100 luscious pages of the most advanced gay communist print material you can find in English. PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY to get it in hand by the end of the year shop.pinko.online/products/issue-4
Issue 4
Pinko Magazine’s fourth issue is finally here. The only print magazine of gay communism in English has returned with 100 pages of new essays, analysis, art, interviews and archival material from the f...
shop.pinko.online
November 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
NOW ON SALE: PINKO MAGAZINE ISSUE 4! 100 luscious pages of the most advanced gay communist print material you can find in English. PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY to get it in hand by the end of the year shop.pinko.online/products/issue-4
Book Launch tomorrow at London @histmat.bsky.social with @redprof.bsky.social , Gargi Bhattacharya, Pepijn Brandon, and Charles Post.
Saturday 11/8, 14:30-16:15, B103 SOAS Brunei Gallery
Saturday 11/8, 14:30-16:15, B103 SOAS Brunei Gallery
November 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Book Launch tomorrow at London @histmat.bsky.social with @redprof.bsky.social , Gargi Bhattacharya, Pepijn Brandon, and Charles Post.
Saturday 11/8, 14:30-16:15, B103 SOAS Brunei Gallery
Saturday 11/8, 14:30-16:15, B103 SOAS Brunei Gallery
Reposted
Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist who has long lurked at the outer edges of the MAGAsphere, took a giant step toward the center last week.
Nick Fuentes Has Officially Breached the MAGA Gates
How the right's crisis over US support for Israel has provided the white nationalist with the opening he needs to be welcomed into the MAGA fold.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist who has long lurked at the outer edges of the MAGAsphere, took a giant step toward the center last week.
Jordy Cummings reviewing @bornagainlabor.bsky.social 's Gothic Capitalism for Locust Review.
www.locustreview.com/online/dude-...
www.locustreview.com/online/dude-...
Dude, Where's My Aura? or the Babbitry of Intellectual Campism — Locust Review
I contend that Moras, while complaining about the lack of politics in Turl’s work, has written a very apolitical review, predicated upon an intellectual campism rooted in what China Miéville calls “folk Marxism,” received beliefs, rather than dialectical reason. Moras’s view of the politics of art
www.locustreview.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Jordy Cummings reviewing @bornagainlabor.bsky.social 's Gothic Capitalism for Locust Review.
www.locustreview.com/online/dude-...
www.locustreview.com/online/dude-...
Reposted
October 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Issue 12 is in the mail!
With features by @redprof.bsky.social , Clara Mattei, Ilya Matveev, and @jferre.bsky.social.
With features by @redprof.bsky.social , Clara Mattei, Ilya Matveev, and @jferre.bsky.social.
November 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Issue 12 is in the mail!
With features by @redprof.bsky.social , Clara Mattei, Ilya Matveev, and @jferre.bsky.social.
With features by @redprof.bsky.social , Clara Mattei, Ilya Matveev, and @jferre.bsky.social.
Reposted
We’re thrilled to release our new episode: an interview with Dr. @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social about the history & legacies of the Palestinian struggle for freedom. We discuss the Palestinian Liberation Movement here & abroad, & the challenges that have come with the fight.
🎧: bit.ly/rc2025emanabdehadi
🎧: bit.ly/rc2025emanabdehadi
October 31, 2025 at 7:26 PM
We’re thrilled to release our new episode: an interview with Dr. @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social about the history & legacies of the Palestinian struggle for freedom. We discuss the Palestinian Liberation Movement here & abroad, & the challenges that have come with the fight.
🎧: bit.ly/rc2025emanabdehadi
🎧: bit.ly/rc2025emanabdehadi
spectrejournal.com/the-greatest...
Hey y'all! This Tuesday we have Keith Rosenthal looking at Fiorello La Guardia's legacy in order to think about the obstacles and openings for socialist politics under a progressive mayor.
Hey y'all! This Tuesday we have Keith Rosenthal looking at Fiorello La Guardia's legacy in order to think about the obstacles and openings for socialist politics under a progressive mayor.
“The Greatest New York City Mayor of All Time” – Spectre Journal
Keith Rosenthal looks back on the historical record of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in order to reexamine the relationship between social movements and their elected officials.
spectrejournal.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
spectrejournal.com/the-greatest...
Hey y'all! This Tuesday we have Keith Rosenthal looking at Fiorello La Guardia's legacy in order to think about the obstacles and openings for socialist politics under a progressive mayor.
Hey y'all! This Tuesday we have Keith Rosenthal looking at Fiorello La Guardia's legacy in order to think about the obstacles and openings for socialist politics under a progressive mayor.
