Recently Released
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The Black Box of Production
The material world, made and re-made in the image of capital, looms large over humanity's future.
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How to Be Normal About Exercise; or, Why Communists Need Exercise Science
There is no inherent link between exercising and fighting for a better world, nor is there one in rejecting it. There is only the reality that physical fitness constitutes one of many material constraints to the creation and maintenance of a life worth living.
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Editorial: On Communism, Drawing Lines, and Being Ecumenical
We attend to ecumenical practice not only because it is generative, but because difference is inevitable. Within fragmentation we must develop the capacity for cohesive communication and action.
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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.
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One Year After the Fall of Assad
One year after the fall of Assad, war has returned to Syria once again. The transition agreements signed by Mohammed al-Jolani and Mazlum Abdi in March of 2025 have been scrapped. Despite their best efforts at careful—at times even painful—diplomacy, The Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria was only able to delay the inevitable war that once again arrived at their gates.
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FIVE THINGS FOR TWENTY TWENTY-FIVE
This is the Bureau for Inquiry and Total Critique: Heatwave (BITC:H) where we don't hold back.
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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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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 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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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The Impact of Trump's Tariffs on Brazil: Economic and Political Dimensions
The full impacts of the tariffs and the underlying trade war remain to be seen, as well as the direct and indirect effects on Brazilian workers' lives, employment, and livelihood.
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Proletarian Report on the Burned Periphery: Mexico in the Global Management of the Surplus
The U.S.-Mexico border operates as a laboratory for generalized crisis. Mexico is not on the margins of this crisis: it is one of its active frontiers. On the border, multiple forms of control converge: safe third country agreements, militarization of the National Guard, outsourcing of repressive functions, and cross-border detention networks.
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A Letter to Heatwave: A response to Réalité
Réalité offers a useful portrait of one of the economic ideologies at work in the Trump administration, and gives us insight into the motives of some fractions of capital that have aligned with Trump and MAGA. But when it comes to sussing out "the implications for the international circuit of capital," they are entirely too credulous.
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Revolt and Representation: A View from the Battle for Los Angeles
In Los Angeles, no partisan in the struggle has not been touched by riot, revolt, or localized rebellion. The tip of the spear here has been sharpening itself since the Watts Uprising of 1965, the 1992 LA Riots, and the George Floyd Rebellion of 2020, ready to strike.
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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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TRUMP II: Trade War Gone Global
In this first contribution to Heatwave, Chuang responds to questions about the global impacts of the latest rounds of American tariffs. The full overview of this inquiry, with responses from comrades across several countries, will be printed as a dossier called "Madness and Capitalist Civilization: International Perspectives on the MAGA 2.0 Tariffs", and included with Heatwave's second issue.
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Tariffs as a Class Offensive
Properly contextualized, the tariffs' bumbling rollout is another embarrassing episode in the disintegration of the U.S.-led global economy. But their role in this saga goes mostly unremarked in current debates around trade.
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An Epochal Turning Point?
The failures of the Democratic administration can be seen not as contingent errors, but rather as the tail end of a long cycle of U.S. and global politics — namely, that of ascendent globalisation, which had already been severely shaken by the crisis of 2008.
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The Great Détournement — The Miran Doctrine and the Trump Shock
This article is part of a collective effort to clarify the dynamics of the new epoch we are entering. Each week, our working group examines and discusses a text tied to current events in order to draw out its theses. What follows is a revised version of the discussion from one such session, devoted to the "Miran Doctrine" and its implications for the international circuit of capital.
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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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The Trump Tariffs: Some Notes from the Antipodes
The Australian state is currently caught in a cleft stick, like so many of its Asian neighbours. For us, the intertwined, yet conflicting, economic and political alliances with the US and China comprise the uneasy terrain within which Australia has responded to Trump's recent tariff announcements.
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Madness and Capitalist Civilization
In this first dossier edited by the Heatwave media collective, we present a series of short articles by communists from various countries about the local impacts of the second Trump administration's international policies — focusing specifically on the tariffs.
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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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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.