Letters to the Editors
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Risk and Responsibility
Dear UTA, In his review of Zizek’s Defense of Lost Causes (UTA 7) Balan makes some good observations. However, his comments sometimes do not go all the way and fail to convey the full weight of what Zizek says. In other cases, Balan goes too far and draws conclusions that Zizek would not. It is wi…
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The Struggle Continues
Dear UTA, I would like to give a huge Nia:wen Ko:wa (thank you very much) to UTA for your continued attention to Six Nations’ struggles post-Reclamation. As both a Six Nations, Haudenosaunee-Tuscarora youth activist and a university student, it is useful and inspiring to see discussions of our str…
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Sex Workers United
Dear UTA, Congratulations to Upping the Anti for providing an excellent analysis of the issues facing sex workers in Canada and transnationally in “Sex Work and the State: An Interview with Kara Gillies” (UTA 7). Even though there is a constitutional challenge to prostitution-related offences in…
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Danger at Daybreak
Dear UTA, UTA’s most recent editorial (UTA 7) makes several points that deserve further elaboration, if only to underscore how important it is that activists and theorists engage with the tensions the editors highlight and confront the consequences they entail. First, the editors are right to asse…
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Catastrophe and Actualization
Dear UTA , I was pleased to read your editorial, “The Moment of Danger: Catastrophe and Actualization,” in the last issue (UTA 7). “Crisis” under capitalism is certainly nothing new, as the editors point out. In this time of ecological and economic crisis, it is critical that anti-capitalist…
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Defending the Three Way Fight Perspective
Dear UTA, Rami El-Amine has done valuable work challenging Islamophobia and the widespread demonization of Islamic-based political movements. But his “Islam and the Left: A Reply to Staudenmaier” in Upping the Anti #5 is a deeply misleading piece of writing. Not only does El-Amine misrepresent M…
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Comments on the Three Way Fight
Dear Editors, Once again, Upping the Anti has done a great job of producing reflections and theory relevant to activism. Thanks for the exchange on the Three Way Fight debate. The two main anti-war coalitions in the US were hurt by their divergent, one-sided approaches on these difficult issues, and…
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The United Front
Dear Upping the Anti, You have produced a stimulating issue of the journal (UTA 3). The backgrounder on the Six Nations struggle at Caledonia was very useful and on a different level, so were the interviews with William Robinson and Aijaz Ahmad. I want to take issue with your editorial particularly…
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Means and Ends
Dear Upping the Anti, Reading “Making friends with Failure” (UTA 3), I found that AK Thompson’s account of the shortcomings that mark Richard Day’s celebration of contemporary “affinity” politics cut right to the heart of the matter. I would like to take this opportunity to respond to hi…
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Pain and the Other
Dear readers, In “Growing Pains,” the editorial from UTA 3, it is suggested that both those committed to the united front and those working from the standpoint of a pedagogy of confrontation share a concern with the question of responsibility to the Other. Further, “Growing Pains” argues tha…
