Issue 2
Order your copy of Heatwave Issue No. 2 here! "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 2 here.
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Comrades Known and Elsewhere
When Joshua passed away in late April, social media was filled with a cornucopia of similar stories from those lucky enough to see him in his element: at the riot, the occupation, the barricade.
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The Murder of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi
Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi was a Palestine liberation activist from Seattle, Washington in the USA who was murdered by the Israeli Occupation Forces at a Palestinian demonstration in the West Bank in late 2024. This is a transcript from an interview with a comrade who travelled to the occupied West Bank with Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi and the International Solidarity Movement.
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The Red Thread of Black Power in Jamaica: The Case of Abeng
Abeng, a short-lived newspaper, offers a window into Jamaica's revolutionary currents in the late 60s. Acting as a theoretical nexus between communism and black power, it also served as a means of practical communication between different currents of class struggle on the island.
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Hurricane Season
Jean Maro demonstrates that climate change has serious implications for Country music by teasing out the anxieties present in The Castellows' 2024 cover of Leon Everette's "Hurricane," a resuscitated hit that takes on an entirely new significance in the face of increasingly-severe hurricane seasons.
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The Anti-Imperialist Imperialism Club: On Left Internationalism and Iran
The moment Israel began bombing Iran, US left-wing organizations “wheeled out one regime apologist after another.” In “The Anti-Imperialist Imperialism Club,” Arya Zahedi argues that this “form of anti-imperialism is an incredible obstacle to building a renewed internationalism.”
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“Pumping Up” the Revolt: The Serbian Uprising, Its Roots, and Its Discontents
In “Pumping Up the Revolt: The Serbian Uprising, Its Roots, and Its Discontents,” L.P. charts the possibilities and contradictions of the wave of protests, riots, strikes, and occupations that spread across Serbia beginning in late 2024.
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Review of Full Circle: A Life in Rebellion by Ben Morea
One of Morea’s recurring secular concepts is something he calls “Pancho Villa syndrome”: the tendencies of militants, partisans of armed struggle, to fail to adapt and renew themselves after the terrain shifts from revolutionary potential to counter-revolution and recuperation
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Communist Reconstruction and the Limits of the Human Species
J. Caurine challenges anthropocentrism in communist thought, frames interspecies communism as a pragmatic necessity, and proposes ‘ecological councils’ as novel conductors of the metabolic forces of planetary production
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Review of Creation Lake: A Novel
There is much to unpack in Creation Lake’s 400 pages. Just as Bruno looks to the past for clues about the future, Creation Lake contemplates the ashes of the milieu that produced The Call and The Coming Insurrection, leaving us to question whether we can indeed leave this world behind.
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Tales from the (French) Far Left
History does not repeat, but it often rhymes. Gilles Dauvé, regaling us with 'Tales From the (French) Far Left,' draws out the uncanny resemblance between the French electoral left of today and those of yesteryear, with special emphasis on La France Insoumise (LFI).
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Fire To The Prisons: Issue 2
On September 9, 2025, Fulton County Judge Kevin Farmer dismissed racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of conspiracy in relation to the movement to Stop Cop City. Believed by legal experts to be the largest criminal racketeering case filed against protesters in U.S. history, the trials of the Stop Cop City 61 appear to have been suspended, for the moment at least. What does this all mean?
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Your Neighbour Kills Puppies: Inside the Animal Liberation Movement
Tom Harris’s *Your Neighbour Kills Puppies* serves as a partial corrective to the under-historicization of the animal liberation movement, offering an 'insider’s account' of SHAC
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Dispatches from Mae Sot, Part II: The Town of Exiles
A journalist by trade, Wu quickly became immersed in this town’s fascinating history and current role as a crossroads for political refugees and illicit commerce—a history that has led some researchers to call it an epicenter of “Dark Zomia” or “Zomia 2.0.” She took copious notes and recorded long interviews with young revolutionaries who had fled the junta’s counter-offensive in Myanmar, older refugees who had been stranded in Mae Sot for decades, migrant workers from as far afield as Tanzania, as well as Chinese entrepreneurs in the smuggling and online scam industries.
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Red May Theses
Drawing on the examples of the Paris Commune and 20th century workers’ councils—'the only new invention of the communist movement in the 20th century'—Bernes distills their successes and failures into a description of communism that is at once abstract and practical
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Remembering Sher Singh (1951–2025)
In 'Remembering Sher Singh', his comrades at Friends of FMS tell his story and, through that, provide a window into the social transformations and political terrain in which he tried to intervene. The result is a poignant memorial for an individual who dedicated his life to struggle and a sweeping history of the communist movement in northern India.
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A Summer With A Thousand Junes: Part II
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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Treatise for the Youth in Revolt
Five years later, 'Treatise for the Youth in Revolt' offers an incisive reinterpretation of Chile’s 2019 uprising. What began as mass fare evasion by the student proletariat propagated across neighborhoods and cities to target all avatars of capitalist “progress” and “development,” from police stations to mining infrastructure. The text traces the insidious domestication of the revolt through the fetishization of student protagonists, the blind imitation of tactics, and its persistent characterization as a 'social explosion'
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Yasuda Redux
A conversation with Tatsuki Kihira, a Japanese comrade active in organizing the 2024 tuition protests, about their approaches to composition and escalation, the movement’s vertical and horizontal connections, and the emergence of a Japanese alt-right.