“Link” by The Melbourne Jewish Labor Bund: Zine Review
Zine review columnist Miranda Sullivan reviews the third edition of “Link”, Melbourne’s Jewish Labor Bund Zine, which carries on an over-a-century-long tradition of Jewish socialist publishing.
Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
Article Archive
Jewish Continuity Demands We Fight For a Green New Deal
Activists from the Workers Circle College Network are organizing a new campaign in the ongoing struggle for climate justice.
Welcome to the Jewish Underground Press: Zine Review Series
Our zine review columnist Miranda Sullivan introduces herself — and the Jewish zine-scene of summer 2021.
What’s New With The Workers Circle College Network
Two student activists on the politics and vision behind a new Jewish socialist youth collective.
Not All Time Is For Sale: Keeping Shabbat Under Capitalism
“There are still 25 hours of the week where time holds still, makes room for something quiet and eternal. It is, by its very nature, a world designed to exist outside of capital.”
Socialist Circles Have an Anti-Semitism Problem – They’re Called Tankies
In the days following the results of the 2016 American presidential election, I actively searched for places to express my frustration as a young American socialist living abroad who was frankly devastated by the election results. I was overjoyed to find one Facebook group made up of Bernie Sanders supporters who wanted a place to…
Stop analyzing Bernie Sanders’ Jewishness
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how Bernie Sanders makes the decision to talk about his Jewishness, specifically how it contrasts starkly with the ways in which Donald Trump talks about Jewishness. Since then, Bernie Sanders has gone on to nearly tie the Iowa caucus with Hillary Clinton and, last week, defeat her in…
Trump, Sanders, and the rhetoric of Jewishness
There seems to be many ways for presidential candidates to pander to Jews. One might look to the 2012 election, during which Republican candidate Michele Bachmann said she loved Israel so much that she put aside her fiscally conservative values to join a utopian socialist kibbutz when she was eighteen. Donald Trump, however, seems to…
Amiri Baraka, Diana Di Prima, and I
This poem was inspired by this article in Tablet Magazine about the anti-Semitic poet Amiri Baraka (born LeRoi Jones) and his Jewish ex-wife Hettie Jones (née Cohen). I was born to be swept off my feet by a hip brotha, poetic justice and a tight beat. I was bred Ashekenzi on borscht, vodka…