Illustration by Dakarai Akil. Photographs via Getty Images.
Hammer & Hope
Constructing an egalitarian society requires the sustained participation of the people.
Rhiana Gunn-Wright
I’m an architect of the Green New Deal, and I’m worried the racism in the biggest climate law endangers our ability to get off fossil fuels.
Siyabonga Mbhebe
& Waldemar Oliveira
Socialist shack dwellers fight for land and housing in South Africa.
Erik Wallenberg
& Devyn Rolls
“I’ve built things here” at the New College of Florida.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Class conflict undermines assumptions about political solidarity.
Taja Cheek,
Chelsea Pachito,
Tasha,
& Matana Roberts
Musicians on the road face a depressing new reality.
Tera W. Hunter
Ron DeSantis wants to retrofit history to conform to conservative ideology.
Mariah Parker
The volume of new organizers who stick with the movement will be our victory.
Edgar Franks,
Gavin Raders,
Elenilda Nascimento,
Bárbara Ramos,
Covonne Page,
Five agricultural workers from Brazil and the U.S. share strategies to take back the land.
Cinco trabalhadores rurais do Brasil e dos Estados Unidos partilham estratégias para a reconquista da terra.
Jesse Sharkey
What does it mean to have Brandon Johnson, a Chicago Teachers Union organizer, in office?
Elizabeth Oh,
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò,
Brandon Tizol,
& Susan Kang
“They’re wrong to underestimate just how annoying we can be.”
Braxton Brewington
What if we ignored it?
Shirley Ngozi Nwangwa
I feel like a voyeur on a play session with Monáe and a few willing conquests.
Jocelyn Simonson
Groups of people are showing up to collectively contest the criminal legal system.
Eva Dickerson
They’re trying to create a narrative that the movement is composed of white “outside agitators.”
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Paula Wilson, “Meeting the Day,” 2023
Ashley M. Jones
& Carrie Mae Weems
A call and response between the artist Carrie Mae Weems and the poet Ashley M. Jones.
Jen Parker
& Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Welcome to a magazine of Black politics and culture.
KC Tenants
A story on the revolutionary potential of direct action.
Robin D. G. Kelley
Ideas, and the radical movements that produce them, really do matter.
Derecka Purnell,
A discussion of the legacy of the 2020 protests, the growing threat from the right, and building movements.
nia t. evans
Freedom work requires art and imagination. Faith Ringgold learned the secrets of both from children.
Ann Larson
Police are the “strong arm” of this policy in Salt Lake City.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Out of a common history emerged racism, capitalism, and the whole world. This offers us a clue on how to change that world.
Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele
& Monifa Akinwole-Bandele
If we don’t bring home our elders, they will die in prison and our movements will suffer.
Chase Strangio
People who are fighting for control of their bodies need to be on the same team.
Taja Cheek
The Brooklyn singer and songwriter creates a playlist and reflects on two songs she can’t stop thinking about.
Everything worth doing is done with other people.