by Brendan O'Connor | Jan 28, 2023
Early one evening in December 2020, two police officers in Virginia initiated a traffic stop on Caron Nazario, ostensibly because he was driving his newly-purchased Chevy Tahoe without licence plates. Police lights flashing in his rear-view mirror, Nazario slowed...
by Jamie Allinson | Jan 28, 2023
I always thought that something, in 1920–25, was almost born: Lenin, Freud, Surrealism, revolutions, jazz, silent films. All this could have come together. And then each followed its sporadic destiny. Isolated, they could all be strangled. It is only in my memory that...
by Oliver Eagleton | Jan 28, 2023
When Keir Starmer was elected leader of the Labour Party, the commentariat acquired an idée fixe. The Guardian’s Polly Toynbee described him as a ‘trusted, tried-and-tested, big-brained grown-up’; the Telegraph’s Tom Harris touted the return of ‘grown-up politics’;...
by Robert Knox | Jan 28, 2023
Over the course of Boris Johnson’s leadership, the Conservative Party’s commitment to the ‘rule of law’ has come repeatedly under scrutiny. Among the most recent examples of this has been the ‘Partygate’ scandal, in which Johnson and various Conservatives were found...
by Sita Balani | Jan 28, 2023
The ‘depressing thing about the Christmas season’, Eve Sedgwick writes in ‘How To Bring Your Kids Up Gay’, ‘is that it’s the time when all the institutions are speaking with one voice.’ It’s true: the John Lewis Christmas advert; Boris Johnson’s attempts to ‘save’...
by Richard | Oct 5, 2022
James Kelman interviewed by Rastko Novaković. Malignant bureaucracies, class hatred, the revanchist rump of British Empire – they were all on the wane we were told, but presently they are alive and virulent. These are the cold winds that blow through half a...
by Stuart Hall | Aug 13, 2022
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by Richard Seymour | Aug 13, 2022
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by Anne Rumberger | Jul 1, 2022
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by Sophie Lewis | Jun 1, 2022
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by China Miéville | May 24, 2022
This is an edited extract from A Spectre Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, which first appeared in print in Salvage 11: Already, Not Yet, available to buy here. New subscriptions can be taken out here, and start with the next issue. We have no...
by Kevin Ochieng Okoth | May 24, 2022
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by Salvage Editorial Collective | Apr 22, 2022
This article is from the forthcoming Spring/Summer 2022 issue of Salvage. Subscribe before 30 June to receive it as the first in your print subscription, or support our work by taking out a digital subscription. Lenin’s back. Vladimir Putin blamed him...
by Tad DeLay | Apr 4, 2022
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by Luísa Calvete Portela Barbosa | Apr 4, 2022
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by Jules Joanne Gleeson | Mar 14, 2022
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by Richard Seymour | Mar 14, 2022
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by Sarah Jaffe | Feb 26, 2022
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by Barnaby Raine | Feb 26, 2022
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by Richard Seymour | Feb 24, 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has begun. It seems obvious that its ambition goes beyond simply supporting the authoritarian statelets in Donetsk and Luhansk, under the almost witty rubric of ‘humanitarian intervention’. The bulk of its forces concentrated on Ukraine’s...
by Salvage Editorial Collective | Feb 7, 2022
This is the editorial essay from Salvage 11: Already, Not Yet. ‘We want you to get up the arse of the White House and stay there.’ – Jonathan Powell, Downing Street Chief of Staff under Tony Blair, to Christopher Meyer, the British Ambassador to the...
by China Miéville | Feb 4, 2022
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by Richard Seymour | Jan 27, 2022
Well, you can all relax. No consciousness was raised during this shitstorm. ‘Abolish the family’. The argument explodes, fluoresces and evanesces as if it had no history, detached even from the Sophie Lewis book, the publicity for which goaded the Laschian wing of the...
by Michael Roberts | Nov 29, 2021
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by Joseph Tomaras | Nov 29, 2021
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by Jonas Marvin | Nov 19, 2021
The following article first appeared in print in Salvage #10: The Disorder of the Future, our Spring/Summer 2021 issue. It appeared alongside another piece ‘Brexit From Above: British Capital and the Tensions in Global Capital Accumulation’. Our back issues are...
by Gary Howe | Nov 19, 2021
The following article first appeared in print in Salvage #10: The Disorder of the Future, our Spring/Summer 2021 issue. It appeared alongside another piece ‘Brexit From Below: Nation, Race and Class’ by Jonas Marvin. Our back issues are available to buy...
by Richard Seymour | Nov 16, 2021
I. Why were the Democrats hammered in the recent slew of elections? Why did Terry McAuliffe, an impeccably establishment Democrat who earned his stripes fighting for Clintonite triangulation both in the 1990s and during Clinton’s presidential primary campaign in 2008,...
by Barnaby Raine | Nov 11, 2021
Don’t – goes the common imperative – compare anything to the Holocaust. If you understood the scale of its organised annihilation, its industrial death factories, its carnivals of degradation, you would see why it makes us nauseous when you treat it as a little dagger...
by Francesco Anselmetti | Oct 29, 2021
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by Sharri Plonski | Oct 29, 2021
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by Richard Seymour | Sep 22, 2021
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by Kevin Ochieng Okoth | Sep 22, 2021
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by Marianela D'Aprile | Sep 22, 2021
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by Salvage Editorial Collective | Aug 10, 2021
This is the editorial essay from Salvage 10: The Disorder of the Future. I. The May pogroms beginning in Sheikh Jarrah, the Palestinian neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, were not merely the work of ‘extremists’. In Israeli terms, they are not particularly...
by Ben Davis | Jul 21, 2021
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by Alexander Billet | Jul 21, 2021
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by Richard Seymour | Jun 1, 2021
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by Caitlin Doherty | Jun 1, 2021
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by James Foley | Jun 1, 2021
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by Barnaby Raine | Apr 19, 2021
The following piece first appeared in print in Salvage #9: That Hideous Strength, our Autumn/Winter 2020 issue. It follows from Barnaby Raine’s ‘Jewophobia’ in Salvage #6: Evidence of Things Not Seen, responded to by Sai Englert in ‘Recentring...
by Judy Thorne | Apr 14, 2021
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by Jonas Marvin | Mar 17, 2021
On 16 March, the House of Commons undertook the second reading of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. People assembled in Parliament Square, rightly and indignantly protesting this lurch towards authoritarianism. It is testament to popular pressure that...
by Benjamin Kunkel | Mar 10, 2021
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by James Meadway | Feb 12, 2021
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by Salvage Editorial Collective | Jan 11, 2021
Every issue of Salvage is accompanied by a pamphlet wherein the Editorial Collective presents a synoptic overview of certain key aspects of the political conjuncture as we see it – our perspectives. The below is the editorial perspectives essay that accompanies...
by Camila Valle | Jan 5, 2021
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by Salvage Editorial Collective | Nov 19, 2020
An audio recording of the editorial essay The Tragedy of the Worker from Salvage 7, read by the Salvage Editorial Collective. Sound editing by Duncan Thomas. For subscribers only. You are unauthorized to view this page. Please login or sign up. **If you are an...
by Salvage Editorial Collective | Nov 19, 2020
A teaser of the audio recording of the editorial essay The Tragedy of the Worker from Salvage 7, read by the Salvage Editorial Collective. Sound editing by Duncan Thomas. Salvage · The Tragedy of the Worker teaser Listen to the full version ...
by Daniel Guérin, Jean Le Bitoux (interviewer) & Caitlin Doherty (translator) | Oct 2, 2020
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by Sebastian Budgen | Sep 25, 2020
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by Sophie Lewis | Sep 18, 2020
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by Richard Seymour | Sep 11, 2020
The overall psychological improvement was outpacing the material advantage. Richard Grunberg, A Social History of the Third Reich If individuals behaved like groups, they would be classified as mad. Hannah Segal I. Disaster nationalism is the kairos theory of the new...
by Caitlin Doherty and Nisha Ramayya | Sep 4, 2020
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by Matt Broomfield | Aug 28, 2020
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by Kevin Ochieng Okoth | Aug 20, 2020
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by Jamie Allinson | Aug 13, 2020
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by Sivamohan Valluvan | Jun 29, 2020
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by Maya Osborne | Jun 24, 2020
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by Salvage Editorial Collective | Jun 19, 2020
The bourgeois, however, is tolerant. His love of people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be. – Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia Throw a molotov cocktail at the precinct Salvage glorifies the burning down of the Minneapolis third police...
by Gregor Gall | Jun 15, 2020
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by Salvage Editorial Collective | Jun 8, 2020
Every issue of Salvage is accompanied by a pamphlet wherein the Editorial Collective presents a synoptic overview of certain key aspects of the political conjuncture as we see it – our perspectives. The below is the editorial perspectives essay that accompanies...
by Tessa McWatt | Jun 2, 2020
I think there is a person in our neighbourhood who might be dead, but I can’t be sure. In fact, many might be, of course. As you know, our pharmacist died of Covid-19, having been on diligent, caring duty with patients entering his pharmacy throughout the silently...
by R. H. Lossin | Jun 1, 2020
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by George Souvlis and Ashley Bohrer | May 28, 2020
GS: Why did you choose to write this book? AB: I wrote this book partially out of a sense of frustration with the current state of conversation about identity politics and anti-capitalism. I’m someone who moves pretty fluidly (in both an activist and an academic...
by Troy Vettese | May 25, 2020
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by Salvage Editorial Collective | May 21, 2020
As the subtitle of this piece suggests, this is the third in a series of online editorials responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. The first, ‘The Mask of the Red Death’, was published on 21 March, the second, ‘We Are All Unclean’ on 20 April. Our forthcoming issue, #8:...
by Sarah Grey | May 18, 2020
I. In a river valley, sirens’ wails reverberate. They hit a sheer rock face, the aluminum wall of an old factory, the steel beams of a bridge, then water. Back when the mills were running, sirens mounted on water towers and smokestacks brought the women out onto their...
by Salvage Editorial Collective | May 8, 2020
Like many things, Salvage #8 was a little disrupted by the global pandemic, but it’s at the printers and if you’re a print subscriber, it’s on its way to you very soon. As we have announced, our comrade, friend, and contributor Neil Davidson died as we were...
by Salvage Editorial Collective | May 4, 2020
9 October 1957 – 3 May 2020 It is with great sadness that we report the death of our comrade, friend, and contributor Neil Davidson. We cannot even begin here to acknowledge the political, intellectual and personal inspiration that Neil gave both to Salvage and the...
by George Souvlis and Neil Davidson | May 4, 2020
Neil Davidson 9 October 1957 – 3 May 2020 It is with great sadness that we report the death of our comrade, friend, and contributor Neil Davidson. We cannot even begin here to acknowledge the political, intellectual and personal inspiration that Neil gave both to...
by Neil Davidson | May 4, 2020
Neil Davidson 9 October 1957 – 3 May 2020 It is with great sadness that we report the death of our comrade, friend, and contributor Neil Davidson. We cannot even begin here to acknowledge the political, intellectual and personal inspiration that Neil gave both...
by Peter Drucker | May 3, 2020
Thirty-seven years ago, Christopher responded to an old-fashioned print ad that I had placed. He wrote me a letter, and we talked on the phone. When we arranged to meet in person, I knew he was older than I was. But somehow I had failed to imagine what he might look...
by Jules Joanne Gleeson and J N Hoad | May 3, 2020
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by Salvage Editorial Collective | Apr 20, 2020
Ironically, the ground that socialism and liberalism share might be a big problem for both of them. What if Mister Kurtz isn’t dead after all? In other words, what if authentically ‘free development’ brings out horrific depths in human nature? —Marshall Berman It was...
by Eli B. Lichtenstein | Apr 15, 2020
In a moment like this, there is something recognisably unhinged about a polemic against emergency measures to save lives. To characterise state responses to the global pandemic as ‘frenetic, irrational and entirely unfounded’, and to view the latter as an ‘alleged...
by Salvage Editorial Collective | Mar 21, 2020
As the subtitle of this piece suggests, this is the third in a series of online editorials responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. The first, ‘The Mask of the Red Death’, was published on 21 March, the second, ‘We Are All Unclean’ on 20 April. Our forthcoming issue, #8:...
by Salvage Editorial Collective | Mar 21, 2020
Since in this matter the diversity and the undetermined boundaries of all relationships bring a great number of quantities into consideration, since most of these quantities can only be estimated according to the laws of probability unless the true flash of genius...
by Nikhil Pal Singh | Mar 11, 2020
Interview conducted by Rosa Burc & George Souvlis Can you start by talking about your formative political and academic experiences? My parents emigrated to the United States from Bombay, India in the late 1960s. My father had been an engineer working for ESSO, my...
by Richard Seymour | Feb 28, 2020
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by Salvage Editorial Collective | Jan 31, 2020
The following editorial first appeared in print in Salvage #7: Towards the Proletarocene, our relaunch issue, in November 2019. Subscriptions to our twice-yearly print issue can be set up here. Issues are also available to buy individually here. Our poetry, fiction...
by Richard Seymour | Jan 26, 2020
Just how serious is Labour’s problem in the North of England? As Lewis Baston points out, the journalistic cliche of the ‘red wall’ that developed over the last few weeks is highly misleading. The myth resonates because it stems from a partial historical truth....
by Kevin Ochieng Okoth | Jan 16, 2020
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by Salvage Editorial Collective | Jan 4, 2020
We launched our seventh issue of Salvage: Towards the Proletarocene and the Historical Materialism 2019 conference in London. On the first panel, already released in audio here, three members of the Salvage editorial collective talked about the editorial essay...
by Salvage Editorial Collective | Jan 4, 2020
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by Salvage Editorial Collective | Dec 18, 2019
These are the early days of an even worse nation. At least for the most part the Left appears to have learnt that grief is necessary. Where once, after catastrophe, we might have expected many hack injunctions not to ‘wallow’, because despair is a luxury, they are...
by Sai Englert | Dec 17, 2019
This piece was first published in print in Salvage #7: Towards the Proletarocene. It is a response to Barnaby Raine’s piece Jewophobia, which was published in Salvage #6: Evidence of Things Not Seen. The latest issue can be ordered individually here, or as part...
by Duncan Thomas | Dec 10, 2019
Boris Johnson is a formidable campaigner. He is one of the few politicians who can connect with ordinary people. He has real charisma. He stands for a proud One Nation conservatism. He stands for law and order. Other parties might claim a line of zero tolerance. But...
by Rosie Warren | Dec 10, 2019
They call it Project Fear. By they, I do not mean – like the bedroom tax – its critics. I mean that the people who ran the first Project Fear – also known as the ‘Better Together’ campaign during the run up to the Scottish independence referendum – themselves coined...
by Duncan Thomas | Dec 8, 2019
“The main thing I’m concerned about is that schools and universities are indoctrinating students about the Empire. They say it was just bad.” When she answered the phone, I thought Kimberly at number 58 would be pretty difficult to talk round. Half...
by Salvage Editorial Collective | Dec 3, 2019
What is there to say? What can Salvage possibly add by way of ‘encouragement’, ‘propaganda’, ‘intervention’, with regard to the forthcoming British General Election, that has not been said already by those with far greater reach and impact than us? That our readers...
by Salvage Editorial Collective | Nov 20, 2019
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by Salvage Editorial Collective | Nov 20, 2019
We launched our seventh issue of Salvage: Towards the Proletarocene and the Historical Materialism 2019 conference in London. Three members of the Salvage editorial collective talked about the editorial essay ‘The Tragedy of the Worker’, a long essay on...
by Salvage Editorial Collective | Nov 8, 2019
Salvage is – still – a journal of revolutionary arts and letters. ‘Hope must be abandoned before it can be salvaged,’ we wrote at the time of our launch in 2015. Now that it appears hope is to be so salvaged – cautiously, urgently, warily, exuberantly – we...
by Sophie Lewis interviewed by Morgane Merteuil | Nov 8, 2019
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by Salvage Editorial Collective | Nov 1, 2019
History is a ‘strange teacher’, wrote Zbigniew Herbert. It supplies its survivors with ‘a dense and dark material’. What is the dense and dark material of recent years telling us? Everything that Jeremy Corbyn has achieved has been against all odds: winning the Labour...
by Richard Seymour | Jul 5, 2019
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. – George Orwell In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing. – Oscar Wilde Okay, I write overblown, purple, self-indulgent prose. So fucking what? – Angela Carter ‘All...
by Sarah Grey | May 18, 2019
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by China Miéville | Apr 2, 2019
Once there had been the subterranean language with the underground forces. If speech at all then it was the spaces between words, and the echoes the words left, or what might be really meant under the surface. Ann Quin, ‘The Unmapped Country’ The problem with Marxism...
by Yvan Najiels | Apr 2, 2019
We had nearly the same number of immigrants twenty years ago. But they had another name then: they were called migrant workers or just plain workers. Today’s immigrant is first a worker who has lost his second name, who has lost the political form of his identity and...
