The gathering of Jacobin writers and friends near the Occupied Wall Street site was made a bit smaller by the fact that half of us got arrested. I did not. I was too busy thinking up acronyms for the new Trotskyist sect I’m forming. Two members so far, three factions.

• BREAKING: Salman Rushdie declares a fatwa against finance capital.
• Astra Taylor and Mark Greif visit the Zuccotti Soviet.
• The proletariat is coming. But do they know how to use Twitter?
• Jacobin blogger Malcolm Harris quoted in the Guardian: back the fuck up.
• I clamber, in pride, upon Brooklyn Bridge.
• Doug Henwood, Corey Robin and the best interview you’ll listen to this year.
• And here’s Robin guest-posting over at Konczal’s blog.
• Jodi Dean on the legacy of the New Left.
• Sarah Leonard in Dissent. Solid piece on the cultural commons. Behind a subscriber firewall though, which makes me giggle. I know, it doesn’t take much.
• Caption from our strung out eXiled Online friends: “MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY: WHITE LIBERALS DISILLUSIONED WITH OBAMA ARE RACISTS…CLEARLY, MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY IS ENGAGING IN CODED ANTI-SEMITISM IN ATTACKING ‘WHITE LIBERALS’ WOULDN’T YOU SAY, H’M?”
• The Beatles vs. Radiohead.
• Blast from the past: Mario Savio, Sproul Hall Steps, December 2, 1964.