5LL #405: Ruins, Leqaa Kordia, Climate, Food, Sabotage
Standing on the Rubble
Isabella Hammad, Equator
How plainly we see the future, continuous with our past: casual, industrial-scale warfare perpetrated with a lucid sadism, powers that care neither for the Earth nor for other human beings, a world increasingly in ruins, dominated by a technocratic elite that considers entire populations disposable, and has the power to dispose of them.
Leqaa Kordia’s Long Road Home
Shaan Merchant, The Nation
The Palestinian activist was locked up in an ICE prison for a year. Now she is rebuilding her life, piece by piece and meal by meal.
The New World Climate Order
Thea Riofrancos, New Left Review
The weakness of green capital is a problem for socialists.
Seeds of War
Marianne Dhenin, The Baffler
Lebanon’s food crisis will not be solved through the nation’s greater commercialization and integration into global markets.
Property, Sabotage, and the Origins of Anti-Left Repression
R.H. Lossin, LPE
In order for the left to defend legitimate protest, the always bad faith question “so do you support vandalism?” needs a clear and principled answer.