Issue 1
"The name "Heatwave" echoes that of an old Situationist magazine ("Britain's most incandescent journal" of 1966), but with added urgency in an era where every summer is the hottest on record. While the statistical certainty of catastrophe is inescapable, "revolt" names many species of conflagration, including that peculiar variety we call communism. We must sift through the ashes to find it." — Read the pre-print editorial for Issue No 1 here. Order your copy of Heatwave Issue No. 1 here!
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Class and Disaster in Valencia
This part of the world is no stranger to flooding. Valencia, which is the third largest city in Spain, is on the Mediterranean coast where the river Turia flows into the sea.
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The Case for Letting the World Burn
Like all years now, 2025 began with fire. There was of course the sequence of wildfires that struck southern California, the most destructive to date, and the most expensive natural disaster in United States history.
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On the Trump Blitzkrieg
In the the first five weeks of Trump's second term, The New York Times ran six separate opinion pieces describing the experience as a "blitzkrieg."
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Blockade Bisalloy: A Report from the 'Gong
In Australia, as across the world, a massive wave of struggle rose against the genocide in Palestine, comprised of a wide constellation of political groups and practices. Compared to previous iterations of Palestine solidarity here, this wave has been more widespread, involving a broader range of tactics.
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Dispatches from Mae Sot: A Town on the Thai-Myanmar Border
The author of this series, Wu Qin, is a Chinese anarchist who left the PRC in late 2022. Although she had long been interested in the Burmese revolution, it was not a focus of her research or activism (which had recently centered on the Iranian uprising of 2022), but when it became necessary for her to leave China, Thailand happened to be the country easiest for her to enter on short notice until she could move to a third country. While she was waiting, she took advantage of the opportunity to meet up with Burmese revolutionaries who had similarly fled to Thailand, and they recommended she visit Mae Sot.
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A SUMMER WITH A THOUSAND JUNES: The Nahel Riots and the Communist Hypothesis
In part 1 of "A Summer With A Thousand Junes," Artifices examines France's most recent waves of riots, particularly those following the police murder of teenager Nahel Merzouk, to theorize race, class, and revolution.
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Donde La Vida No Vale Nada: Scattered Thoughts on Organized Abandonment & Ideological Retrenchment in Oakland
Scattered thoughts from E14 Notes on Oakland, a land of organized abandonment and ideological retrenchment. Big money, big housing crisis, and big social rebellion meet in this coastal nexus in ways we should be paying attention to.
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Fire to the Prisons
In this first installment of Fire to the Prisons, a regular column in Heatwave Magazine dedicated to prisoner support, we turn to a small group of comrades who run the Uprising Support website, offering material and spiritual support for prisoners of the recent George Floyd Rebellion. In subsequent issues, we will highlight different prisoner support efforts and individual prisoners who are in need of support.
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Beneath the Bocage, the Bank
The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life is but the latest in Kristin Ross's catalog of contributions on the subject of 'territorial struggles'
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Dams and Deluge: On Communist Niche Construction
The fur trade was the first tendril of the emerging capitalist world system to probe and strangle its way across much of the North American continent.
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What Was Recession Pop?
'Recession pop is so back.' Such was the reaction when Lady Gaga released 'Abracadabra,' the second single for her new album Mayhem. On TikTok and across social media, a consensus began to form: the last time Gaga released a hit like this the economy fell apart