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Hotels, Flags, and Carnivals of Reaction
Unpacking mob psychology and racial violence.
 • Shanice McBean
I'm a podcast host now!
Do you want critical analysis, unfiltered takes, and lively debate about the future of the left? Don't worry, we've got you.
 • Shanice McBean
Is Zohran Mamdani a police and prison abolitionist?
It's complicated. But there are lessons we can learn from Zohran's radical approach to police, prisons, and electoralism.
 • Shanice McBean
Authoritarianism With a Dash of Identity Politics: the Crime and Policing Bill
Minority groups are being given crumbs to build consent for Labour's authoritarian Crime & Policing Bill; meanwhile left media outlets like Novara…
 • Shanice McBean
Between the Movement and the Mainstream: An Interview With Zack Polanski
Movement radicals Jonas Marvin and Shanice McBean interview Green Party leadership hopeful Zack Polanski.
 • Shanice McBean and Jonas Marvin
Rees' Ontology: An Obfuscation - On Marx, Gender & Trans Liberation
Contesting Marx's application to gender, women's oppression and trans liberation: I respond to John Rees.
 • Shanice McBean
Is kindness and empathy really so scary?
Abolition teaches us to lead with our shared humanity: why I confronted three men in north London.
 • Shanice McBean
On Revolution
On Revolution
Musings on revolution, liberation and abolition. Co-author of Abolition Revolution (Pluto, 2022): Bread and Roses Award 2023 winner. Revolutionary as in Rosa. Marxist as in Stuart. Feminist as in Claudia. Butch as in Leslie.
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