Communis Press, New York, NY (2025)

10/25/2025

In “From Nation to People: Reimagining the ‘We’ of Emancipation,” Panagiotis Sotiris proposes a redefinition of the political subject of emancipation that — far from opposing them — articulates the dimension of class with those of people and nation. The recovery of popular sovereignty is thus understood as a constitutive dimension of a new historical bloc, antagonistic to bourgeois hegemony. Drawing on Antonio Gramsci and Nicos Poulantzas to broaden the perspective from which to integrate the plurality of forms of domination and, to this end, Sotiris examines the notion of “internationalist patriotism” proposed by Houria Bouteldja.

Together with Communis, "From Nation to People: Reimagining the ‘We’ of Emancipation” is appearing simultaneously in English on Historical Materialism, in French on Contretemps., and in Spanish on Jacobin América Latina.

The concept of people does not speak of a common origin; it represents a common condition and perspective.

10/20/2025

“We must ‘discard once and for all,’ Poulantzas writes, ‘the view of the State as a completely unified mechanism, founded on a homogeneous and hierarchical distribution of the centers of power moving from the top to bottom of a uniform ladder or pyramid.’ The state today is simply too weak in this respect. This should not lead us to discard the role a state can play, under a left government, in a politics of liberation. And yet the focus of such politics cannot be exclusively or even mainly on the State.”

— Sandro Mezzadra, “State, Counter-power and Post-fascism: from Poulantzas to the Present,” an extended, in-depth conversation between Matteo Polleri, Álvaro García Linera and Sandro Mezzadra on Poulantzas’ theoretical, historical, and political tools, their strengths and their limits to understand contemporary capitalism and the global (dis)order with its logic and recent transformations.

Originally published on Historical Materialism. Now in Spanish translation on Communis.

Ese campo estratégico de la lucha de clases al que damos el nombre de Estado.

10/18/2025

“We need to give the solidarity movement and the struggle against genocide, and for a free Palestine, a long-term perspective, and this is only achievable by combining solidarity with Gaza with a more general rooting of political initiative in everyday life.”

— Sandro Mezzadra, "Flood."

We wanted to liberate Palestine. Palestine has liberated us.

$"According to historian Greg Grandin, we are witnessing a regional hegemon in a fractured world trying to secure its hin...$

10/17/2025

"According to historian Greg Grandin, we are witnessing a regional hegemon in a fractured world trying to secure its hinterlands. For the 'war party' – Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, Terry Cole and J.D. Vance – the key to the region is taking out Maduro, after which Nicaragua and Cuba would fall, and the more independent-minded center-leftists who sell their soy and copper to China will be easier to handle. Should this war party prevail the consequences will be catastrophic."

— Alberto Toscano, "The Secretary of All Wars."

Soon on In These Times, already In Spanish on Communis.

«Alimentar una máquina de matar bien engrasada, eso es lo mío.»

10/15/2025

"Betrayal doesn’t arrive with sirens. It sidles up, in the guise of the ally, in the tone of the peacekeeper who polices your survival. Betrayal is not the soldier’s chokehold—it is the ‘activist’s’ sneer, the condescension of the one who claims to stand beside you while insisting that you remain precisely in your place.”

— Abdaljawad Omar, "The Betrayal of Hospitality."

https://communispress.com/the-betrayal-of-hospitality/

Now on Communis in the most recent instalment of Abdaljawad Omar's column The Border Within.

Unconditional hospitality is impossible—and yet it can be enacted.

10/14/2025

“The new plans for Gaza are the faithful diagram of a future which is the antithesis of justice, equality or liberation, for Palestinians and for peoples around the world; it is a future in which genocide is not an incommensurable crime but a prologue to prosperity and a factor of accumulation, where the ‘value of Gaza’ is another name for the destruction of Palestine. Only working towards the expropriation and destitution of capital’s despots can impede new rounds of eliminatory accumulation from casting their shadow across the earth. They plan for our disposability, we should plan for theirs.”

— Alberto Toscano, "Accelerating colonialism: Planning Against Palestine."

https://communispress.com/planning-against-palestine/

Yesterday at Congreso Internacional «Nuevas Derechas y Utopías (Neo)Reaccionarias» (UNAM, October 13-15, 2025) being held at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Now on Communis, including in Spanish translation, in the latest instalment of Toscano's Communis column Extrema ratio.

Perpetrators and accomplices of genocide plan for our disposability: we should plan for theirs.

10/13/2025

"There are various exaggerated interpretations of the BRICS. According to the most naive of these interpretations—though not the least idealized—a nostalgic heir to the campist fantasies about the role once played by the USSR, the BRICS would be an articulation of leftist or socialist governments. They are not, not even remotely [..] Among the erroneous interpretations, perhaps the most widespread is the one that sees the BRICS as an anti-imperialist bloc, which is an exaggeration. The BRICS are an independent network, but not a lever of support for the struggles against Washington."

— Valério Arcary, "Ten notes on the BRICS."

Now in the latest instalment of his Spanish-language Communis column "Intervenciones."

¿Adónde van los BRICS? ¿Y Brasil?

10/11/2025

"If the moment of its total violence reveals the moment of truth in any mode of production, the Holocaust is the point zero of industrial capitalism that had already reduced individuals to units of labor power and transformed everything into commodifiable matter, into value, into capital."

— David Lloyd, "Ash to Ashlaa’"

An original piece by David Lloyd for Communis, and one more fundamental contribution to Communis' The Palestinian List.

Violence is the moment of truth in any mode of production.

10/09/2025

“The provocative claim that we are all Palestinians should not be understood as that kind of sentimental identification that says that all forms of suffering are variations of the same suffering so we should all get along. Rather, it’s the political slogan of radical universal emancipation that responds to the subject as an effect of the Palestinian cause. Not everyone speaks for Palestine, but Palestine speaks for everyone.”

— Jodi Dean, "Who Can Be Defended?"

https://communispress.com/who-can-be-defended-2/

Now on Communis. One more fundamental piece of Communis' The Palestinian List, on the second anniversary of the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, simultaneously with a new Spanish translation.

Not everyone speaks for Palestine, but Palestine speaks for everyone.

10/09/2025

“Palestine does not enter the world through the neat diction of accords, nor through the polished grammar of sovereignty that bureaucrats rehearse at conference tables, that work of recognition the Palestinian Authority takes pride in […] It announces itself otherwise—through the rupture, through the uncontainable register of the scream. The scream is not an accessory to speech, nor a metaphor for pain—it is the grammar of failure to articulate. It bursts forth at the threshold where flesh collides with the unbearable, when history drives its shards into the spine, when time itself becomes too sharp to inhabit. Here, politics is not the architecture erected after reasoned deliberation; it is the scream that precedes and founds it. Politics here is born in shattering, and remains audible only in the echo of that untranslatable cry.”

— Abdaljawad Omar. "The Scream."

https://communispress.com/the-scream/

Now on Abdaljawad Omar's Communis column The Border Within. One more fundamental piece of Communis' The Palestinian List, on the second anniversary of the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.

To hear Palestine is to realize that what echoes there is not theirs alone, but already your own.

10/05/2025

"In Zionist discourse the Holocaust memory is disjointed from anti-fascism, so that fascism and anti-fascism are contained by or reduced to the question of the Holocaust, thus making the Holocaust unthinkable in its origins, causalities, and methods. [...] At the limit the presentation of a genocide as absolute, unique, morphs perversely into an apologia for genocidal policies, which are always presented as pre-emptive."

— Alberto Toscano, "Unreason of State," now on his Communis column Extrema ratio.

The history of the idea of reason of State is a history of violence.

10/03/2025

“The resistance that is visible at present is occupied by necessary defensive and legal struggles, and we haven’t yet seen in the US the emergence of capacious forms of transformative resistance. If and when they do, they will require what Ruth Wilson Gilmore calls ‘creative aggression.’ In her words: ‘It’s difficult to fight an adversary that keeps changing shape. The narrative momentum of horror movies depends on the terror of scary surprises to keep audiences riveted to the improbable by presenting it as inescapable—at least until some resourceful protagonists, frequently with their backs against the wall, outsmart the monster using creative aggression.’”

— Alberto Toscano, "Creative aggression against anti-politics," an interview conducted by Patrick Samzun.

https://communispress.com/creative-aggression-against-anti-politics/

Published on Communis as part of Alberto Toscano’s new Communis column Extrema ratio.

Capacious forms of transformative resistance require "creative aggression."

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