Where Are We on Thanksgiving Day in America?
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Where Are We on Thanksgiving Day in America?
I give thanks that there’s a chance that in the coming year we can begin to build a mass working class movement and an independent working-class political party.
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Verdict in Rittenhouse Vigilante Trial Leads to Protest by Left and Jubilation on Right
The Rittenhouse verdict has encouraged and emboldened America’s fascists—and they are taking advantage of it.
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The “Striketober” Debate in America
Throughout October and November, the media and especially the Left have been reporting what they called a “strike wave.” Is there one?
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After Bogus Nicaraguan Election, Daniel Ortega Remains Dictator
Having arrested and jailed his most significant rivals weeks before the election, President Daniel Ortega was reelected on November 7 to a fourth consecutive term, his fifth altogether.
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Biden’s Legislation Whittled Down by “Moderate” Democrats, Progressives Trapped
In the last several weeks, two so-called moderate Democratic Senators have been able to force Biden to cut his proposal to less than half the original amount, eliminating many of the innovative social programs.
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School Board Meetings Become Violent as Republicans Fight Over Health and Race
Local school board meetings in the United States have for the last three months become the site of intense arguments and even violence as parents fight over both health policies and teaching about race.
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The Great Resignation: A Workers’ Movement in America
Over the last several months, millions of American workers have quit their jobs: about four million every month since spring. And the trend of saying, “I quit!” goes on.
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France’s Union: Between Dead Ends and Renewal
The national day of strikes and demonstrations organized in France on 5 October was not a failure, but the mobilization was average in terms of demonstrations and weak in terms of strikes.
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Biden Focuses U.S. Foreign Policy on Challenging China
President Joseph Biden has refocused U.S. foreign policy and military strategy on America’s two great power imperial rivals: Russia and China, particularly the latter.
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Tens of Thousands of Women March for Abortion Rights
The politics of the march in NYC were progressive, with a strong presence of Democratic organizations, such as Indivisible and several independent Democratic clubs.
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Protests Against Biden’s Immigration Policy and Treatment of Haitians
Scenes of black migrants held in chaotic, dangerous, and filthy conditions in Del Rio, Texas and then of Border Patrol agents riding their horses into the migrants, their reins looking like whips, sparked indignation.
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The Forgotten History of William McCarthy and Boston Teamsters Local 25
By understanding the Teamsters past, union members can acquire the ability to become agents of their own history and change its course.
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The Significance of Occupy Wall Street
Ten years ago Occupy Wall Street, a national mass movement against economic inequality and the influence of corporate money in politics, began in New York City and then spread across the country.
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French Anti-Pass Demonstrations on the Eve of the Presidential Election
The fragmentation of the left has led to an almost certain second-round dual between Macron and Le Pen in 2022, with grave implications for the future of an explicitly left mass movement.
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Millions Lose Government Assistance and Protection; Biden Mandates Vaccination
This month millions of Americans lost government unemployment benefits and millions more are losing protection from eviction.
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Mobbed-Up! The Untold Story of Sean O’Brien and Teamsters Local 25: A Rank-and-File Perspective
O’Brien is a man who will stop at nothing to achieve his ends. His past attacks on reformers demonstrate that he is a bully.
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Texas Anti-Abortion Law Upheld by Supreme Court—And Met with Resistance
The Texas law will not only affect the seven million women of childbearing age in Texas, but could also become a model for other states. It could also spark a new women’s movement, letting people know that Women’s Lives Matter.
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What’s Happening in France?
The French collective Aplusoc (Arguments for the Social Struggle) argues that recent protests in France do not represent a reactionary wave.
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Understanding the Paris Commune On its 150th Anniversary
What is the significance of the Paris Commune for us today? A model for socialists? A heroic failure? Negation of the state? Or the first workers’ government?
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France’s Confusing Political Demonstrations on July 24 – Another Planned for July 31
An interview with longtime French left activist Patrick Silberstein on the current demonstrations in France
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DSA’s Flawed International Outlook: The Appeal of the Mass Party and its Contradictions
There’s something contradictory in this position that needs to be pointed out. The parties that DSA has focused on weren’t always mass parties. Often, they began as just the kind of plebeian networks or far left grouplets that DSA eschews as irrelevant.
