5LL #392: Rubble, Hegemony, Teachers, Zionism, Unions
Welcome to the Rubble-based Order
Shivangi Mariam Raj, Communis
There is nothing random about this overwhelming succession of disorder and chaos: this is the deliberate design of the international order, which uses rubble to crystallise in space its settler-imperialist domination.
The Reckoning
Mona Ali, Equator
Hormuz has made the end of American hegemony imaginable.
Refusing to Be Silenced: Palestine and Education in the UK
Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya, Verso
Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya on how UK teachers are resisting the repression of Palestine solidarity in classrooms.
What You, My Good Israelis, Said: Sabri Jiyris’s The Foundations of Zionism
Sasha Frere-Jones, Protean
The Zionists’ consistent entreaties to imperial powers are well known, but the space which Jiryis dedicates to these early attempts at state-formation-by-dependency casts the present Israeli dependency on the U.S. in a stark light.
Frothing Mad
Max Kiefel, The Baffler
In Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class, Noam Scheiber identifies a combination of structural and psychological factors that explain younger generations’ transformation into the central players of a resurgent labor movement.