5LL #178 - Disability, Militancy, Futures, Jane, Reds

Age of Disability
Sunaura Taylor, Orion Magazine
What is at stake when we shift to a language of disability to describe our damaged world?
Strike Wave
Gabriel Winant, New Left Review
What is the nature of the present fragmentation of the U.S. working class?
Same Old
Sun-Ha Hong, Real Life
What is the point of imagining new technologies without new ways of living?
Code Names and Secret Lives: How a Radical Underground Network Helped Women Get Abortions Before They Were Legal
Clara Bingham, Vanity Fair
As restrictions on abortion sweep the country, and Roe v. Wade is under attack, a look back at the covert service called “Jane.”
Forty Years Later, Reds Is Still One of the Best Films Ever Made About Revolutionary Politics
Jim Poe, Jacobin
In 1981, Warren Beatty directed Reds, a retelling of John Reed’s classic firsthand account of the Russian Revolution. The film still stands up today as one of the greatest and most faithful depictions of revolutionary politics.
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