John Garvey Preface This essay is an expanded version of remarks I made at a discussion on “War and Capitalist Crisis” held at the Woodbine Collective in Ridgewood on September 10, 2022. I have changed my mind more than once about important aspects of the Russian war against Ukraine over the last eight months. To […]
Popular Front Radicalism: A review of Adolph Reed, Jr.’s The South
John Garvey This essay first appeared in Platypus Review 152/December 2022-January 2023. Preface The South has received a good deal of attention and its main points have been frequently summarized. Therefore, I’ll forego doing much summary. As I prepared this essay, I read (or re-read) earlier texts by Reed as well as a number of […]
How A Terrifying Event Became a Commercial for the Police
[originally published in Hard Crackers] John Garvey — May 22, 2022 During the morning rush hour on April 12th, an individual, after putting on a gas mask, set off one or two smoke canisters in a subway car on the Manhattan-bound N line just outside the 36th Street station in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. He then fired 33 shots from […]