Oh the places you'll go! News sources beyond Jacobin
March 4, 2019 7:43 AM Subscribe
Recommend me your left (like, specifically left as opposed to centrist and liberal) sources of news and analysis. See interior for details.
Because I am an Old, my internet habits were formed in the time before fire and one by one my old blog/small website sources have slowed down or stopped posting. I get most of my news from metafilter or obtusely anti-id-pol news aggregator Naked Capitalism (which is none the less well worth checking out) where once I got most of my news from more explicitly marxist or anarchist sources.
Things I know about: Current Affairs, Jacobin, New Inquiry, nplus1, the Intercept
Things that if you recommend please recommend specific writers/beats/columns: left-liberal outlets like Common Dreams, the Nation, etc.
I am willing to use Facebook for this purpose, since I already have an activist-event-only one.
Basically, I want to be reading more news and commentary that is explicitly, specifically marxist or anarchist and takes "we should dismantle capitalism" as its underlying logic. I am particularly interested in long reads.
I'm not trying to impugn, eg, links posted on metafilter or liberal reporting - I look at that stuff! I read the Nation! There's lots of very sound, very detailed and fact-based reporting coming out of those venues, and lots of good, committed people doing it. (And god knows that not all left-left reporting is pearly with wisdom). It's more that I also need reporting whose starting point is aligned with my beliefs or that challenges my ideas from the left.
Because I am an Old, my internet habits were formed in the time before fire and one by one my old blog/small website sources have slowed down or stopped posting. I get most of my news from metafilter or obtusely anti-id-pol news aggregator Naked Capitalism (which is none the less well worth checking out) where once I got most of my news from more explicitly marxist or anarchist sources.
Things I know about: Current Affairs, Jacobin, New Inquiry, nplus1, the Intercept
Things that if you recommend please recommend specific writers/beats/columns: left-liberal outlets like Common Dreams, the Nation, etc.
I am willing to use Facebook for this purpose, since I already have an activist-event-only one.
Basically, I want to be reading more news and commentary that is explicitly, specifically marxist or anarchist and takes "we should dismantle capitalism" as its underlying logic. I am particularly interested in long reads.
I'm not trying to impugn, eg, links posted on metafilter or liberal reporting - I look at that stuff! I read the Nation! There's lots of very sound, very detailed and fact-based reporting coming out of those venues, and lots of good, committed people doing it. (And god knows that not all left-left reporting is pearly with wisdom). It's more that I also need reporting whose starting point is aligned with my beliefs or that challenges my ideas from the left.
In These Times
Ian Welsh
Dissent
Guernica
Salvage
I would have recommended TheState.ae but you know how these little independent presses are.
posted by the man of twists and turns at 8:09 AM on March 4, 2019 [1 favorite]
Ian Welsh
Dissent
Guernica
Salvage
I would have recommended TheState.ae but you know how these little independent presses are.
posted by the man of twists and turns at 8:09 AM on March 4, 2019 [1 favorite]
I just keep an eye out for what The Whelk posts on the blue.
posted by entropone at 8:42 AM on March 4, 2019 [2 favorites]
posted by entropone at 8:42 AM on March 4, 2019 [2 favorites]
Left/anarcho news sources:
posted by Sheydem-tants at 8:49 AM on March 4, 2019
- International Marxist Tendency (tin label is correct)
- La Izquierda Socialista (Mexican branch of IMT, lots going on in Latin America that you won't hear about elsewhere)
- It's Going Down (anarchist)
- Boston Review (left criticism and analysis)
posted by Sheydem-tants at 8:49 AM on March 4, 2019
Africa Is A Country is part of the Jacobin family, but maintains their own site focusing on (usually) leftist African reporting/opinion/essays/commentary.
posted by ChuraChura at 9:01 AM on March 4, 2019
posted by ChuraChura at 9:01 AM on March 4, 2019
Unicorn Riot and It's Going Down (which I see has already been suggested)?
posted by Mrs. Pterodactyl at 1:03 PM on March 4, 2019
posted by Mrs. Pterodactyl at 1:03 PM on March 4, 2019
Popula has lots of interesting articles with a staunchly international perspective--international analysis is one of those things I have a hard time finding on the left.
The political cartoons on The Nib are often surprisingly deep and just as satisfying for me as a prose article. I suspect you already know about this because they have featured our friend The Whelk several times, but there it is.
posted by zeusianfog at 1:20 PM on March 4, 2019 [1 favorite]
The political cartoons on The Nib are often surprisingly deep and just as satisfying for me as a prose article. I suspect you already know about this because they have featured our friend The Whelk several times, but there it is.
posted by zeusianfog at 1:20 PM on March 4, 2019 [1 favorite]
I'd like to second The Baffler. I would describe it as leftist even though their willingness to criticize everyone might make it look more "centrist" from the outside.
Its a publication that's pretty critical of conservative economic thinking, as well as silicon valley-style mumbo jumbo like from Mark Zuckerberg.
posted by ajax287 at 1:31 PM on March 4, 2019
Its a publication that's pretty critical of conservative economic thinking, as well as silicon valley-style mumbo jumbo like from Mark Zuckerberg.
posted by ajax287 at 1:31 PM on March 4, 2019
Wonkette.com. They cover a surprising number of stories every day.
posted by ergomatic at 3:25 PM on March 4, 2019
posted by ergomatic at 3:25 PM on March 4, 2019
Some more niche sources not yet mentioned that I think tickle the Marxist/anarchist requirements in the original post:
Jewish Currents (here's a recent essay on "the lost world of Yiddish anarchists")
The Trouble (fairly new left-wing online outlet devoted to covering climate change)
Libcom (a wide-ranging site that has some fantastic essays, and I deeply love their Working Class History twitter and facebook feeds)
LaborNotes (excellent coverage of labor issues in the United States)
ROAR and The Ecologist (I don't read either of these much but some of my smartest ecosocialist friends often link to these so I probably should read them more)
Belt Magazine (it does not explicitly wear anti-capitalism on its sleeve, but it's a mostly leftwing outlet for analysis and stories from the Rust Belt, for example here's a story about the 1937 Flint sit-down strike [full disclaimer, I have written for it before about climate change])
posted by mostly vowels at 4:36 PM on March 4, 2019 [2 favorites]
Jewish Currents (here's a recent essay on "the lost world of Yiddish anarchists")
The Trouble (fairly new left-wing online outlet devoted to covering climate change)
Libcom (a wide-ranging site that has some fantastic essays, and I deeply love their Working Class History twitter and facebook feeds)
LaborNotes (excellent coverage of labor issues in the United States)
ROAR and The Ecologist (I don't read either of these much but some of my smartest ecosocialist friends often link to these so I probably should read them more)
Belt Magazine (it does not explicitly wear anti-capitalism on its sleeve, but it's a mostly leftwing outlet for analysis and stories from the Rust Belt, for example here's a story about the 1937 Flint sit-down strike [full disclaimer, I have written for it before about climate change])
posted by mostly vowels at 4:36 PM on March 4, 2019 [2 favorites]
It’s British and more left/socialist than Marxist but you might like The Canary
posted by plonkee at 3:01 AM on March 5, 2019
posted by plonkee at 3:01 AM on March 5, 2019
Socialist Forum is the online publication of the DSA and the current ecosocialism issue is very good
posted by The Whelk at 12:13 PM on March 11, 2019
posted by The Whelk at 12:13 PM on March 11, 2019
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