Place: North America
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.
Historian Ellen Schrecker discusses how the repression against students and workers in higher education today are in many ways worse than McCarthyism.
In an interview, Daniel Gross discusses strategies for powerful rank-and-file unionism in the United States today.
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.
On Friday, June 6, 2025, federal agents descended on four businesses in Los Angeles and arrested dozens of workers on suspicion of violation of U.S. immigration laws. In response, hundreds of people gathered around federal buildings in downtown Los Angeles
Bill Kelly argues that exploitation and deportation of Latin American immigrants have long been a feature of U.S. capitalism.
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.
Below are excerpts from Frieda Afary’s presentation to a webinar entitled “How to Be Anti-War in a Multipolar World” sponsored by the Northeast Los Angeles Alliance for
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
Calling something “white socialism” actually weakens the left. It treats the multiracial working class as just a social problem, not as a group that can act politically. It focuses on moral identity rather than on working together. This leads to a kind of politics where the left cares more about staying pure than about winning. As a result, the left can’t respond to the current moment, because it has lost the tools it needs to understand what’s happening.
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.
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.
We have all been horrified to learn of Cesar Chavez’s sexual assaults and rape of young girls and women.
Below is the revised text of a presentation by Frieda Afary to the South African organization, Zabalaza for Socialism on March 15, 2026. You can also listen to the article by clicking on this audio file
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.
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