October 12, 2006

Sites I Like

Politics

Break Their Haughty Power, writings of US communist Loren Goldner.

Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder?, many interesting writings.

Aufheben, theoretical journal of the English communist group.

League for the Revolutionary Party, longtime NYC-based Trotskyists with interesting perspectives and on-the-ground interventions, especially in the subway union.

Il Programma Comunista, Italian left-communist (Bordigist) group, although their press is in several languages.

Race Traitor, a very interesting journal examining the race question and its implications for class struggle.

Sinistra.net: Online Archives of the Communist Left, a huge library of texts and writings from Bordigist groups, and from Amadeo Bordiga, going back to before WWI.

Stratfor used to be better than it is now. When I first heard about them most of the stuff was free, and pretty interesting. They're a private intelligence service, like $10,000 subscription newsletters from stock analysts and hedge fund managers.

Wildcat, a German-language journal with a basically autonomist class-struggle perspective.

Trop Loin contains current writings of French communist Gilles Dauvé/Jean Barrot.

John Gray contains years worth of reading. Enormous collection of communist writings.

The Internationalist Communist Group.

Internationalist Perspectives, left-communist theoretical journal.

World Socialist Website, the Marxist Wall Street Journal. Read it daily!

Culture

The terrifically prolific Ralph Dumain.

The Artwork of Amiri Kudura Barksdale.

Fantastic paintings by Scott Listfield.

Studio Products is my favorite art-supply place. They also have very informative forums. Don't go there for politics, though! You never knew such rabid right-wingers existed.

Ah, The Baffler: one of my favorite magazines... I sent them so many submissions, but they sort of got real irregular.

Wooster Collective has extensive links to street art, urban art, graffiti art, fine art, etc. A really great central resource for this sort of stuff.

Crewest: I really admire these folks. It seems like the LA artists have their stuff together, on a collective basis, much more than the East Coast artists. I think it may be because the concentration of galleries in NYC makes artists less inclined to work it out among themselves. Of course I may be talking out of my ass.

Economics

Prudent Bear, an excellent source for macroeconomic analysis.

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