The release of the prisoners now makes it possible for President Biden and Blinken to make a deal with Ortega that would improve his situation—removing the sanctions—while increasing U.S. influence in Nicaragua. Ortega accused the opponents he imprisoned of being traitors working for the United States, but it is he who wants a closer relationship with Washington.
We Are Not Back to Normal, We Are Facing Normalization
Dan La Botz analyzes the 2022 US Midterm elections and challenges facing the left.
Introduction by Dan La Botz
Staughton Lynd looks at Stan Weir’s strategy for labor and Dan La Botz looks at Lynd.
A critique of the DSA International Committee’s stance on Ukraine
Putin could end this war today if he wanted. So could you and your comrades in arms if you refuse to fight or simply begin to go home.
A Conversation with Czech Activist Anna Ŝabatová
A sketch of a long-time human rights activist
Mike Davis, the revolutionary socialist social and culture critic, has died.
Over 400 years ago, long before Woodrow Wilson or Vladimir Lenin, Bartolomé de Las Casas developed a theory of the right of nations to self-determination that can be applied to many other countries today, including Ukraine.
The United States has long dominated Latin America, but today—in fact for the last twenty years—it is being challenged by China, which has invested billions and established political and some military relationships with many governments in the region.
Russian soldiers had committed war crimes, including many cases of torture, executions, rape (including of children), bombing of civilian areas sometimes leading to separation of families from their children.
While I share the apprehensions of many, those of us on the international socialist left also have hopes that war in Ukraine can lead to making the world a better and safer place.
The first of an occasional series of articles on the lives of figures of the French left.
For more than a decade, from 1936 to 1947, Laurent Schwartz (1915-2002), the famous mathematician, was a Trotskyist in France, though that was only one . . .
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Doug Greene, A Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism. Washington: 2021. 260 pages. Notes. Bibliography. No index.
Doug Greene has written his critical political biography of Michael Harrington, in large part it seems because he wants . . .
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It is urgent to end the war in Ukraine. But to achieve this goal,
Why the peace movement should support Ukraine
Where does the Left stand and where should it stand on this question of “Western values”?
Why is DSA in this anomalous position: A political organization with no useful position on the central foreign policy question of the day?
Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, one of the most important figures of the Mexican left, died on April 16, 2022 at her home in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon at the age of 95.
Alain Krivine, a French revolutionary socialist, died today March 12 at the age of eighty.
The Russian war on Ukraine has completely roiled American politics.
The convoy represents a significant movement by the country’ growing far right, one that parallels and is influenced by right-wingers South of their border led by Donald Trump.
The DSA International Committee statement on Ukraine rightly criticizes NATO but is silent on Russia’s role in the current crisis