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Between the Movement and the Mainstream: An Interview With Zack Polanski
Movement radicals Jonas Marvin and Shanice McBean interview Green Party leadership hopeful Zack Polanski.
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Shanice McBean
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Jonas Marvin
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Rees' Ontology: An Obfuscation - On Marx, Gender & Trans Liberation
Contesting Marx's application to gender, women's oppression and trans liberation: I respond to John Rees.
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Shanice McBean
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Is kindness and empathy really so scary?
Abolition teaches us to lead with our shared humanity: why I confronted three men in north London.
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Shanice McBean
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'The Despised Blood of the Negro Flows Freely in the Veins of Jews'
Exploring antisemitism and colonial racisms; their connections, and ruptures.
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Shanice McBean
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A Marxist reviews a Marxist: Minority Rule by Ash Sarkar
Now that the dust of the Twitter beef has settled, what should we make of Ash Sarkar's debut book 'Minority Rule'?
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Shanice McBean
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I am not English, and I don't need to be
Are Suella Braverman and Rishi Sunak English? I reflect on my own identity to provide an alternative response to the culture war: centring universal…
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Shanice McBean
War on Poor: Police Violence and Class
Exploring police violence as a working class problem; the connections between race and class; and countering narratives that claim policing is a 'woke…
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Shanice McBean
On Revolution
On Revolution
Musings on revolution, liberation and abolition. Co-author of Abolition Revolution (Pluto, 2022). Revolutionary as in Rosa. Marxist as in Stuart. Feminist as in Claudia. Butch as in Leslie.
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