Category: Left Politics
Andrew Sernatinger reviews a new edition of the 1982 classic Teamster Rank and File, an in-depth study of the rank-and-file movement at Local 208 in Los Angeles, offering a prescient critique of the TDU’s electoralism.
Siyavash Shahabi critiques campism as an abdication of class independence and a symptom of the weakness of independent working-class politics today.
The rave reception for Molly Crabapple’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country is a breakthrough for Jewish radicals. After decades of Zionist hegemony within U.S. Jewish communities, including on the left, suddenly Crabapple’s avowedly, even fiercely anti-Zionist book is
Russia today holds more political prisoners than at any time since the post-Stalin thaw of the 1950s. Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Russian state has systematically prosecuted antiwar critics on charges ranging from “discrediting the
In an interview, Daniel Gross discusses strategies for powerful rank-and-file unionism in the United States today.
Donald Trump in his second term is a president like no other American chief executive. Dominating the Republican Party that controls Congress and with a compliant Supreme Court, he has as he promised unleashed political and economic chaos, shattering
Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? (or Pipers) is a neo-Stalinist hatchet job targeting the German intellectuals, most of them Jewish, who associated with the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research before, during, and in some cases after
The book sets out to familiarize uninitiated DSA members with the terms of political debates that are in play nearly ten years after the organization’s resurgence in 2016.
Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada was sentenced today to 30 years in federal prison over possessing and moving a box of zines—politically expressive pamphlets.
The revolution and this anti-imperialist resistance revealed the potential of solidarity between Haitians and Dominicans who to this day share an island that was divided two-hundred and fifty years ago by the European imperialist powers.
A Cepeda victory will strengthen the working class, the social movements, and the oppressed whereas a victory of the right will place the repressive apparatus of the state firmly in the hands of the forces of reaction.
Americans are among those who have volunteered to join Myanmar’s resistance to the military junta that took power in a 2021 coup. In this interview a young volunteer from California shares an account of what drove him to take up arms.
All are invited to a conference celebrating the life and work of labor champion Tony Mazzocchi.
That people cannot afford their lives is the designed outcome of an economic system that hoards resources for billionaires, exploiting workers to insulate the overwhelmingly white ruling class.
Kali Akuno—co-founder of Cooperation Jackson and a lifelong movement builder—is facing a serious and urgent health crisis. He needs immediate access to specialized cardiac care that he simply cannot get in Mississippi.
There seems to be nothing at present to stop Trump from terminating the Cuban Communist government.
Workers’ inquiries are identifying working-class self-activity in various sectors, understanding the class struggle from the working-class point of view, and allowing workers to develop their own knowledge of who their work is organized in order to identify vital new tactics and strategies that can allow them to push their struggles forward.
The road to the rights and freedoms of the Kurdish people runs through the rights and freedoms of their Arab, Turkish, Syrian, and Iranian neighbors, in a state that does not question its citizens about their origins, that guarantees them bread and freedom, and that respects their human dignity.
The Islamic regime is a theocratic modern capitalist state that dominates the lives of Iranians through a military corporation, the IRGC. It came to power through a violent counter-revolution where autonomous networks of worker councils were systematically targeted.
brian bean recommends the book No Cop City, No Cop World, a collection of essays by activists in the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta.
Latin America historian Greg Grandin, always aware of the subtexts of events and processes, combines a literary and cultural flair that makes America América: A New History of the New World both readable and enjoyable. His book is a carefully
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