Articles
‘Like a Face Drawn in the Sand at the Edge of the Sea’ – On the Antihumanist Trajectory of Posthumanism
Confronted with this corporate death drive, in a constellation where significant factions of the ruling class are burning up the planet, an effective antifascism needs to take up again the humanist thrust of the refrain of the Internationale: ‘L’Internationale sera le genre humain’.
Mélenchon and Technofeudalism: What Strategy for the French Left?
We are sharing a translation of an article by Louis Delamangue from the new French theoretical journal Armes de la critique, associated with the far-left political party Révolution Permanente (formerly part of the NPA). Delamangue criticises the common assumptions and political orientation informing the ‘citizens’ revolution’ advanced by Jean-Luc Mélenchon and La France insoumise (LFI), as well as Cédric Durand’s theory of technofeudalism.
The billionaire who did away with money
Musk’s future is full of things. Things produced, things launched, things switched on, things automated, things intelligent, things orbiting, things in abundance. But a liberated society is not a society full of things. It is a society in which human beings need not be things amongst things.
Why trans liberation is class struggle
The policing of trans life is central to the oppression of the bodies, expression and relationships of the class as a whole
Why Talking About the Oil-Dollar Nexus Is Important
The persistence of the dollar’s role as world money after the collapse of the Bretton Woods system raises a puzzle: how does a currency continue to function as world money even when the issuing country loses its economic competitiveness and, over time, becomes the world's largest trade-deficit economy?
Berlinguer and Spinelli: Europe as Dreamt by Italian Eurocommunism
The emergence of a new figure of party communism in the period of its final crisis, distinct from both the Soviet and Chinese tendencies, and capable of circumventing the logics of geopolitical “camps”, was only possible because of the development of European construction, for at least some of its initiators
Iran: To Suture the Stateless Subject
Iran can offer lessons on both colonial patricide and anti-colonial resistance, self-harm and healing. In the coming wars, we need strategies rooted in concepts and faith that can offer not only perspective into an increasingly more elusive totality ruling over our fragmented worlds, but also a feeling of the self as a non-split subjectivity living in real ecologies and in bodies with real organs.
Carlo Ginzburg, Marcos and Adolfo Gilly
In memory of Carlo Ginzburg, Historical Materialism returns to this remarkable reception of his work and, in particular, his ‘evidential paradigm’. These letters exchanged between Subcomandante Marcos and Adolfo Gilly, originally published in the Mexican journal Viento del Sur1 and translated here into English for the first time, show how Ginzburg’s work resonated well beyond microhistory and historiography, inspiring wider debates on Marxism, knowledge ‘from below’, revolution, class struggle, and armed struggle.
The Contemporary Political Economy of Venezuelan Oil in Historical Perspective
Following the United States’ military invasion of Venezuela on 3 January 2026, Venezuela’s oil sector is undergoing widespread transformation. US sanctions against Venezuela have been lifted, and reforms in and outside of Venezuela establish US control over oil production and sales. Oil production is increasing, though Venezuela’s trading partners have changed to adhere to the conditions set out in US licences. Overall, there is a greater role for foreign private capital in the hydrocarbons sector. With these developments, there is renewed international attention on Venezuelan oil.
Traces, omens, histories. Letter to the Subcomandante from Adolfo Gilly
(You can download the three pieces as a single PDF here. You can also find the Introduction by Juan Grigera and the Letter from Subcomandante Marcos)
Letter to Adolfo Gilly from Subcomandante Marcos
(You can download the three pieces as a single PDF here. You can also find the Introduction by Juan Grigera and the Letter to Marcos by Adolfo Gilly)
The Capitalist Chicken That’s ‘Come Home to Roost’: What Two Hundred Fifty Years Hath Bequeathed
The commercialisation of the bicentennial a half-century ago pales in comparison to what’s already underway for the Trump administration’s semiquincentennial celebration. Self-interest on steroids, unapologetically—embarrassingly, perhaps, for those who subscribe to capitalism’s dog-eat-dog/I-got-mine-you-get-your ethic. The capitalist chicken now roosting in the White House itself.
