Friday Interesting Links

• Some theories on why American leftists tend to not be engaged around issues of rural poverty, which draws on insight from Lisa Pruitt, a professor with University of California-Davis, who runs this blog on rural issues

• Essay from 1988 on the personal reflections of the vibrant radical leftist movements in Italy around 1968, via Viewpoint Magazine

• Summary/overview of Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class (2015) by Immanuel Ness

• A leftist/anarchist critique of liberal “ally politics”

• Lengthy essay from New York Times about the young sociologist Alice Goffman, her research and writings on an impoverished and criminalized Black community in Philadelphia, and related drama

• Lengthy article on the Damayan Migrant Workers Association, a coop run by Filipina trafficking survivors

Tuesday Interesting Links

• From Jacobin Magazine: “In his last interview, Chokwe Lumumba discusses popular power and the past and future of revolutionary struggle in the American South.”

• Interfluidity on the Greek crisis, the betrayal of the political intentions behind the Eurozone, and the horrifying mess that creditors have made of Greek’s economy

• A right-wing Turkish perspective on the PYD and Rojava–perhaps a warning sign to radical leftist Kurds that the alliance with the West is going to come to an end soon?

• Once again, LNG exports from the US are hitting serious economic obstacles

• [PDF] The Political Economy of Liberal Democracy (June 2015)