Author: Dan La Botz
DAN LA BOTZ is a member of the editorial board of New Politics. Learn more about him and his writings at danlabotzwritings.com
“They’re different fights for different things,” says the young woman. “But we’re fighting against the same system.”
Students wore their feelings on their faces, anger about the failure of the government to take care of their education, anxiety about the police, joy in carrying out their massive protests.
Éloise, a graduate student in contemporary history working on environmental issues, said, “As a graduate student, I’m also a teacher, and I’m here for my students.
Within these bureaucratic unions, our job as I.S. members would be to organize workers first to take over leadership of the union and then to fight the employers, and while doing that, we hoped to recruit the leaders of the movement to socialism.
Future events taking place in Cuba offer the DSA an opportunity to break with its support for the Cuban Communist States and to actually support the Cuban people…
Eighty-one years ago this week, on August 6 and August 9, United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, the first on Hiroshima and the second on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 200,000 human beings and poisoning and sickening many others.
Dan La Botz analyzes the latest development of Trump’s authoritarian regime and prospects for resistance in the United States.
With this announcement, Ortega has put the last nail in the coffin of the revolution, the final hammer blow in a long process.
I have written this essay because I have been irked by the media’s discussion of whether or not our country has fulfilled the ideals of its founding fathers. So, I wished to clarify just what their ideals were.
Protests in support of a hunger and labor strike by immigrant inmates at Delaney Hall, a detention center in Newark, New Jersey have been militant. There have been conflicts between protestors and various police agencies. Dozens have been arrested. Activists
There seems to be nothing at present to stop Trump from terminating the Cuban Communist government.
We have all been horrified to learn of Cesar Chavez’s sexual assaults and rape of young girls and women.
DSA should enter into a coalition with the groups like Indivisible that have organized the No Kings protests, most of whom are liberal democrats and independents, and many of whom are progressive activists, while some are democratic socialists.
President Donald Trump promised to be the “president of peace” and to avoid foreign wars of regime change such as America’s “endless wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and two-time candidate for president, died on February 17, 2026 at the age of 84.
An obituary for Ernest Haberkern, a long-time revolutionary socialist militant, a founding member of the Independent Socialist Club and a close comrade of Hal Draper.
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