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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Interview with Anna Rajagopoal
Anna Rajagopal speaks about what Judaism and anti-Zionism mean to them, what it’s like being a Jew of color, and how this controversy has been affecting them.
Interview with Cooperation Tulsa
Since 2020, Cooperation Tulsa has been planting seeds of radical democracy in Oklahoma based on Indigenous values and social ecology. Aside from running a community center and gardening projects, they helped start the Symbiosis federation of horizontally-structured organizations aiming to “confront the present system while creating the future that will replace it.”
Contract talks for New York City teachers come at a challenging time
Lastly, the synthesis of skills, experience, and political perspective required in the labor movement, and thereby in DSA’s labor work, are all ultimately based on the experience of organizing in the workplace and in the union.
Why is DSA in this anomalous position: A political organization with no useful position on the central foreign policy question of the day?
The Christian nationalist roots of the anti-abortion movement
Passing the Baton
We don’t win against oppression by being nice. We win by proudly violating the patriarchal, xenophobic, racist, sexist, classist norms of capitalism.
Striking down Roe will just be a starting point
The significance of the Alito draft
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the largest teachers’ union local in the country consistently left members unsafe, confused, ill, and even dead.
The DSA International Committee statement on Ukraine rightly criticizes NATO but is silent on Russia’s role in the current crisis
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With the completion of his biography of Hubert Harrison, Jeffrey B. Perry has made a monumental contribution to our understanding of one of Black history’s most important yet neglected figures. Hubert Henry Harrison (1883-1927) was the first Black figure in the . . .
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By: Dan La BotzFebruary 1, 2022
Today, despite a strong start in his first few months, Biden finds himself and his party failing on every front, opening up the prospect of a Republican victory in the mid-term elections for House and Senate on November 8 this year.
We Have to Keep Moving Forward
The impending Fall of Roe is, at this point, more theoretical than actual for millions of people.
How Major Reproductive Rights Groups Prevent Us from Winning
The shortcomings of the reproductive rights movement are related to racism within the major reproductive rights groups.
It is a safe bet that Roe v. Wade will not fare well in the Supreme Court’s 2021-22 Term.
The history of the erosion of Roe v. Wade is marked by misguided and failed movement reliance on electoral politics and legalistic strategy.
Lessons for the Left
Weiner discusses education reform and prospects for resistance in recent years.
World War II Lessons for a Green New Deal
What can the original New Deal teach us about how to mobilize a Green New Deal?
It was an extraordinarily irrational and reactionary ruling by one of the most undemocratic and authoritarian institutions of our society, one that puts the power of capital ahead of the health of workers.
But the rise of rightwing politics and authoritarianism and of armed groups preparing for violent action is an even greater problem than Biden’s speech suggests and neither mainstream Democrats, nor progressives, nor the left, seems to have a strategy to stop the rise of the right.