We need socialism to save democracy
by Avery Wear
A radicalizing working-class majority is ripe for the long-held argument of the tradition of socialism from below: only revolutionary workers’ power, socialism, can win lasting democracy.
Democrats are saboteurs in the resistance camp
by Avery Wear
Avery Wear argues that ignoring the differences between the increasingly authoritarian Republican Party and the Democrats isn’t politically effective. Socialists should acknowledge the reality of these differences while making clear that the Democratic Party—as a party of capital and capitalists, even liberal ones—will ultimately sabotage fights of working-class and oppressed people against the authoritarian and reactionary tendencies of the Republicans.
Immigrants Are Leaders in Our Class Struggle
by Avery Wear
Avery Wear argues that immigrant workers are creating the first grassroots opposition to Trump’s second-term agenda and are critical to building an effective labor movement.
The transformative power of solidarity
A review of Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor, Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea
by Avery WearA review of Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor, Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea
Why we need a planned economy
by Avery Wear
Common wisdom, even among socialists, is that large-scale economic planning doesn’t work. Avery Wear reviews three key texts on the question and argues that planning is not only feasible but necessary.
From union to workers’ council
J.T. Murphy’s rank and file strategy for revolution
by Avery WearAvery Wear argues that rank and file workplace organization can offer a path to revolutionary workers’ power.
The contradictions of William Z. Foster
Rank and file or organic leaders
by Avery WearAvery Wear analyzes the tensions within the political life and writings of William Z. Foster.