The State of the Plague (interview & new book pre-order)

The State of the Plague (interview & new book pre-order)

Our new book, Social Contagion and Other Material on Microbiological Class War in China from Charles H. Kerr Publishing, is now available for pre-order from AK Press. Copies will be mailed out to our sustainers on Patreon by mid-October, then AK will start mailing the...
天安门广场和进军建制

天安门广场和进军建制

本文摘自《闯》杂志第二期《边疆》(2019年)里的中华人民共和国经济史第二部分《红尘——中国的资本主义过渡》,此章节原文为《Tiananmen Square & the March into the Institutions》。我们将在未来几周发布《红尘》的中译本全文。...
Involution: Wildcat on China’s 2020

Involution: Wildcat on China’s 2020

Below is a translation of “China: Neijuan” from issue #107 (spring 2021) of the German magazine Wildcat – fourth in their series on trends and struggles in China since 2018, the second and third installments of which we published here as “Winter is Coming” and “Trade...
Until the End of the World: Notes on a Coup

Until the End of the World: Notes on a Coup

By Soe Lin Aung 30 31 As night fell in Yangon this week, the city echoed every night with the sound of residents banging pots and pans and drivers honking their horns—noise to drive away evil spirits. In Mandalay, medical workers gathered in formation, their masked...
Delivery Workers, Trapped in the System

Delivery Workers, Trapped in the System

Around the world, previously invisible delivery personnel have achieved a new prominence in popular consciousness as “frontline workers” throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. As the emergency has highlighted both the importance and the dangers of delivery work, strikes...