5LL #395: Elbit, Iran, Equator, Edward Said, Politics
South Carolinians Wage May Day Protest of the Israeli Weapons Factory in Their Back Yard
Sarah Lazare, In These Times
The International Workers’ Day protest targets Elbit America, a subsidiary of the largest weapons company in Israel, now supplying munitions used in Lebanon.
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Sara Mokhavat, Equator
It was hard to imagine that I might soon be in another country, away from this war.
Are Magazines Failing to Cover the New World Order?
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins and Gavin Jacobson, The Nation
A conversation with Gavin Jacobson, one of the founding editors of Equator, a new publication that is trying to make sense of the world after the West.
I Will Not Serve
Ryan Ruby, Bookforum
Toward the end of his life, Edward Said liked to call himself the last Jewish intellectual.
War is the continuation of politics by other means and politics is concentrated economics (Materials for a poem)
Roque Dalton and Noah Mazer, Protean
This text, whose title combines Clausewitz’s famous phrase with one of Lenin’s, is one of Roque’s great achievements as a theorist of imperialism and an anti-imperialist poet.