Suspended on Bluesky for OPPOSING Terrorism
Peter Coffin Peter Coffin

Suspended on Bluesky for OPPOSING Terrorism

Peter Coffin, co-director of the Center for Political Innovation (CPI), was recently suspended from Bluesky after criticizing the wave of vandalism targeting Tesla vehicles across the United States. The incident highlights CPI’s concerns about violence as a political tool and raises questions about free speech in an era where profit-driven platforms often prioritize control over open dialogue.

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Liminal Hustle: Liminal Spaces and the Precariat
Peter Coffin Peter Coffin

Liminal Hustle: Liminal Spaces and the Precariat

There’s something haunting about liminal spaces—the eerie in-betweenness of places that feel like they shouldn’t exist.

The gig economy operates on a similar logic — gig workers live in an in-between state where they are functionally unemployed but are performing the work of employment.

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We wrote a letter to Trump: END THE WARS!
Peter Coffin Peter Coffin

We wrote a letter to Trump: END THE WARS!

DEAR PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP,

We’ve all spent the last year being told, “Donald Trump can never win again.” But we have spoken to regular voters, and that’s never been what they seem to think. As we predicted, you won because the system that dominates the world—the system these people live in—is in complete crisis. Imperialism, the old order of the world ruled by big banks and monopolies, is becoming more unstable by the day. It is relentlessly driving working families' living standards down and pushing us toward new wars….

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The New Yorker Covers CPI #PeaceMAGA Outreach
Peter Coffin Peter Coffin

The New Yorker Covers CPI #PeaceMAGA Outreach

On October 28th, national outlet The New Yorker covered the Center for Political Innovation's "PeaceMAGA" campaign in their article "The Trump Show Comes to Madison Square Garden". While the article did not mention CPI by name, it did name founder Caleb Maupin and share his remarks: “Kamala Harris is an insane warmonger,” an activist named…

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The Bolivarian Revolution: 25 years fighting imperialism
Peter Coffin Peter Coffin

The Bolivarian Revolution: 25 years fighting imperialism

This piece was originally published by The Communists — Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) on 21 October 2024. Twenty-five years have passed since Hugo Chávez initiated Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution in February 1999. Twenty-five years of PSUV (United Socialist party) governments working to improve the economic, social and cultural conditions of the masses. Twenty-five years of participatory democracy; of empowering people…

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PSL opposes many things… including YOU!
Peter Coffin Peter Coffin

PSL opposes many things… including YOU!

Nobody likes leftist sectarianism. Watching tiny irrelevant sects tear each other down, all claiming to be the one true Leninist vanguard party, gets boring after a while. The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is certainly an irrelevant sect, and if that was all it was, it wouldn’t be worth commenting on. However, in addition…

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