You’ve been comparing, over and over, don’t you know?

Ian Bruff | May 12, 2021

This is the second of two posts on how we are forever enmeshed in relationships, in all aspects of our lives, that continually (re)shape, (re)produce, and (re)envision how we practise our craft. The first discussed the important role played by my students across the 2010s in educating me [...]

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Gaining the motion to move to new generational beats

Ian Bruff | May 10, 2021

This post, and the future post that will soon be published here on Progress in Political Economy, are about how we, as individuals or as specific groups of co-authors, are those whose names are on the articles, chapters, reports and books that are part and parcel of academic work. Yet, while [...]

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When Does the Fightback Begin?

Andreas Malm | May 6, 2021

When writing interventions on contemporary events, one’s best hope is that comrades of all stripes will engage with them closely and critically. I have recently written two –Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century and How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning [...]

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Jacobin: Happy May Day

Daniel Lopez | May 1, 2021

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The people who run the planet have 364 days in their honor (more on leap years!) — the people whose labour makes it run have only one. So happy [...]

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Urban Displacements: Governing Surplus and Survival in Global Capitalism

Susanne Soederberg | April 29, 2021

Housing forms a vital part of everyday life under capitalism, as argued in my new book Urban Displacements. It is a place where people prepare their meals, eat, sleep, entertain friends and family, enjoy solace from the outside world, and often work.  For many, however, the security and [...]

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