Max Haiven

<a href="http://maxhaiven.com">Max Haiven</a> is a writer and teacher and Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination. His most recent books are <em>Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization</em> (2018) and <em>Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts</em> (2020). Haiven is editor of <a href="https://vagabonds.xyz">VAGABONDS</a>, a series of short, radical books from Pluto Press. He teaches at Lakehead University, where he co-directs the ReImagining Value Action Lab (<a href="http://reimaginingvalue.ca">RiVAL</a>).

Hope and refusal in an era of criminalized care: Responses to Pirate Care (3 March 2026, online)

February 9, 2026February 9, 2026 by Max Haiven

Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity contends that, today, our movements for collective liberation are increasingly defined by the calling to care for one another in defiance of the state and capital. From volunteer rescue boats in the Mediterranean to underground labs preparing gender-affirming hormones, people are reclaiming the means to care for …