5LL #304: Necropolitics, Trade, Queerness, James Baldwin, Coalitions
A New Terror Has Entered the Gaza War: That It Is Ushering In an Age of Total Immorality
Nesrine Malik, The Guardian
Israel’s seemingly endless war is forcing the world to become accustomed to an obscene level of death and suffering.
Genocide Trade-offs
John Reynolds, LPE
How do we understand the political economy of “normal” trade relations with a genocidal entity as it continues to perpetrate daily massacres? And where might we look for signs of more material anti-imperial responses on the horizon?
"I Called Him 'My Queer Friend in Gaza'"
Jo Livingstone and Afeef Nessouli, The Stopgap
An interview with Afeef Nessouli, contributor to Pinko's new zine Queer Palestine.
James Baldwin and the Roots of Black-Palestinian Solidarity
Alexander Durie, Literary Hub
While Baldwin was widely known for being a major voice in the civil rights movement who marched alongside Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., a lesser-known fact about him was his enduring solidarity with Palestine and how he viewed strong parallels between Black and Palestinian liberation movements—united in their fight against oppression and imperialism.
We Can Breathe!
Gabriel Winant, London Review of Books
The Popular Front represented a worldwide left-wing identity, as particular ideologies of nationalism and sectarianism suddenly became compatible.