An unusual article recently appeared in the Financial Times called “Liberals must overcome their aversion to conflict.” It is hard to know what the author is arguing in the piece, though it might be for less criticism of militarization. Throughout, he touches on the threats posed to the liberal order by both the “woke left” and the “post-truth right,” George Orwell’s killing of a wasp (apparent evidence that violence must go hand-in-hand with liberal greatness), Salman Rushdie’s stabbing, and Winston Churchill’s rejection of Nazism.

Apocalypse is ongoing.

Species are dying at an unprecedented rate. Entire ways of life are dying: cultures, languages, peoples. For those lost, apocalypse has already come; for those on the brink, it looms ahead.

Humanity is not to blame. Particular patterns of human activity are. Specific logics and behaviors drive the eradication of life on earth: domination, destruction, development.

In Garden of Earthly Bodies, Sally Oliver conveys the complexity of life—not life as it appears on the surface level, in actions and interactions, but life as an ongoing historical process. With heavy use of allegory and metaphor, Oliver’s treatment of Marianne’s story is an effective reminder that past events are never truly past—that they continue to exist in memory and consequence, and that the ripples of an event may never subside.

In the early twentieth century, a group of artists in Paris saw that restrictive, arbitrary frameworks had been imposed upon society by structures of power. They recognized that these frameworks ran so deeply that they penetrated the mind and shaped the very way that it perceived reality.

During the Cold War, stemming from propaganda programs of the Second World War, the American State spearheaded a series of literary and cultural programs intended to foster a socio-political environment that would allow for the widespread perpetuation of liberal-democratic ideology. This produced a system in which culture was explicitly weaponized on a mass-scale by the American State.

Micheál Martin, Taoiseach of Ireland, recently said that “We need to reflect on military non-alignment in Ireland and our military neutrality. We are not politically neutral… We don’t need a referendum to join NATO. That’s a policy decision of government.”

Voltairine de Cleyre’s essay, The Dominant Idea, and Pierre Bourdieu’s work, 'Structures, Habitus, Practices,' both wrestle with the necessity of grounding theory in materiality with the necessity of recognizing the material impact of cognitive and social structures. Available in Spanish here.

The election in the North of Ireland has drawn a lot of attention in recent days. For the first time in history, in apparent contradiction to the very purpose of the state, people in the North elected Sinn Féin as the largest party in the assembly.

On April 30th, Katie Taylor, the undisputed lightweight champion of the world, successfully defended her WBC, WBA, WBO and IBF lightweight titles against Amanda Serrano, a seven-division world champion, at Madison Square Garden. Taylor and Serrano became the first women in history to headline a card at the ‘Mecca of boxing’.

Apocalypse is ongoing. Species are dying at an unprecedented rate. Entire ways of life are dying: cultures, languages, peoples. For those lost, apocalypse has already come; for those on the brink, it looms ahead.

Wary of the restrictions that existed in the journalistic medium, Adams turned to fiction to explore his theory. He believed that fiction would allow him to speak truth to power with greater flexibility.

The unspoken, ever-present spectre of 59th Street haunts the poster-laden halls of boxing gyms across the world. It’s a hallowed place where warriors who’ve sacrificed everything for the fight game walk.

In the autumn, American officials began warning that a Russian invasion of Ukraine was imminent. To many, it seemed like fearmongering. Then, the Russian state made the “decision to immediately recognize the independence and sovereignty of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic” and shortly after tanks began to roll west of the parallel.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine must come to an end. The Russian state is ultra-reactionary, repressive, and imperialist. Criticism of NATO does not undermine these facts.

People must reject the binary and refuse to be sucked into an imperialist struggle where the exploited classes are pitted against one another for the sake of state power and the enrichment of the elite.

Characters wander through the pages, desperately searching for escape, filled with anxiety, as life—that “fresh and complex entity”—dries out and threatens to disappear. Lonely voices cry out, and their ache reverberates long after the book is closed.

A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy is a radical speculative novel that explores a range of socio-political themes from an anarchist perspective. It tells the story of an imperial war correspondent who is captured by anti-imperialist forces and exposed to the harsh realities of the realm in which he lives.

The Cold War has not ended. For America, Cold War involved fostering an environment conducive to the solidification and expansion of its position of dominance in the post-war world, facilitating the transfer of imperial power.

The American-led invasion of Afghanistan resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands and the displacement of nearly six million people. Rather than criticizing the consequences of withdrawal, the war itself should be the subject of criticism.

The prevalence of right-wing conspiracy theories and a general desire to aid COVID response efforts quells much critique. However, the state has consistently put the interests of business owners and professional classes over the interests of the workers.

On October 14, a memo was sent to all Government of New Brunswick employees by Ted Flemming, New Brunswick’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice and Public Safety, ordering employees not to “make or issue territorial or title land acknowledgements.”

In 1985, representatives from the American Indian Movement travelled to Ireland to commemorate the deaths of Irish hunger strikers in an expression of solidarity with Ireland’s struggle against British colonialism. Today, 4.6 million Canadians claim Irish heritage.

Instead of gearing up to return to the status quo, lives can be saved by deciding to use this disruption as an opportunity to transform. This requires accepting responsibility for the damage inflicted–blame which does not lie with isolated people seeking socialization but with the systems in place that have caused it to unfold so destructively.

For years, Frampton was hailed as a promising prospect. Under the tutelage of Barry McGuigan, one of the greatest Irish boxers, Carl knocked out a series of impressive opponents: Martinez, Parodi, Cazares.

New Brunswick has a long and sustained history of white supremacy. It’s the basis of the settler colonial state. The existence and dominance of the settler colonial state is the manifestation of white nationalism.

YVON Durelle was born in a small Acadian fishing village in Atlantic Canada on October 14th, 1929. At a young age, he left school to join his father and grandfather as a commercial fisherman along the coastline of New Brunswick.

GEORGE Dixon was born on July 29th, 1870, in Africville, Nova Scotia. In 1888, Dixon became the first black boxer to win a world championship when he defeated Tommy Kelly for the Bantamweight title in Boston.

CHARLEY Burley was born in Bessemer, Pennsylvania, in 1917. From 1936-1950, Burley reigned as one of the most feared and respected middleweights in America.

“Overall, this was the first work by Richard Cumyn that I have read. After reading it, I feel compelled to dive further into this author’s bibliography, exploring the various worlds that he creates.”