Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

Nov. 17, 2018 by

Molly Smith is a sex worker and activist with the Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement (SWARM). She is also involved with SCOT-PEP, a sex worker-led charity based in Edinburgh, which is working to decriminalise sex work in Scotland. Ru

Harm, Abuse & Accountability: A Discussion

Jun. 1, 2018 by

Content Note: This conversation covers many topics, but makes regular reference to discussions of Abuse Dynamics / Harm / Abuse Apologism / Trauma / Sexual Violence base It seems to us that many discussions on harm and accountability fail to

On Climate / Borders / Survival / Care / Struggle

Jun. 23, 2017 by

The Out of the Woods collective have been publishing vital analysis investigating capitalism and its relationship to climate change on Libcom for over three years – all of which can be read at libcom.org/outofthewoods. We sat with them for a

How the West Came to Rule

Oct. 29, 2016 by

Kerem Nişancıoğlu & Alexander Anievas discuss the emergence of capitalism, arguing that the origins of capitalism have clear geopolitical contexts and that an analysis of history from a multiplicity of spatial and nonlinear vantage points is crucial in understanding how

On Borders / Race / Fascism / Labour / Precarity / Feminism / etc.

Oct. 29, 2016 by

An interview with Angela Mitropoulos discussing the nature and effects of border control processes on different bodies, racialised violence, repurposing struggle, and queer politics. Many descriptions of borders rely on conceiving them as a line, dividing those within from without.

Black Against Empire

Oct. 30, 2015 by

Joshua Bloom Interview The OT recently spoke in depth with Joshua Bloom, co-author of the 2013 award-winning book ‘Black Against Empire’, about the history, politics and thought of the Black Panther Party.  The OT One of the central arguments in Black