5LL #254 - Struggle, Mining, Private Equity, Student Debt, Homophobia

Jordan Neely and Daniel Penny: Five Points on the May Day Murder
Editors, The Bad Side
Any struggle that poses a serious threat to the balance of forces—notwithstanding the role of state and federal funding at the municipal level—will find itself, eventually or immediately, face to face with the city’s police.
A Good Prospect
Nick Bowlin, The Drift
Are there no alternatives to this rush to extract the world’s metals and minerals?
$$Kudzu$$
George Scialabba, The Baffler
Two excellent new books narrate, with complementary approaches, the alarming story of private equity’s kudzu-like growth.
A Strategic Blueprint to Give Student Debt Relief a Fighting Chance
Astra Taylor, The Nation
The administration needs to go bold and swift to bring broad relief.
How Capitalism Remade Homophobia
Chris Nealon, Max Fox and Daniel Denvir, Jacobin
Before tragically dying at age 32, Chris Chitty, a brilliant historian of gay life and capitalism, produced an illuminating unfinished book, Sexual Hegemony. In it, he provided a longue durée account of the development of homophobia and homosexuality.
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