The promise of workers’ power
The International Socialists perspectives debate, 1976–77
by Bill RobertsDebates among the International Socialists in 1976–77 offer lessons for socialists today—article by Bill Roberts.
Can shattering capitalist economic theory lead to revolution?
A review of Clara Mattei’s Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention
by Mel BienenfeldTempest’s Mel Bienenfeld reviews Clara Mattei’s Escape from Capitalism.
Party Time? Setting the record straight
A response to Charlie Post
by Giselle GerolamiGiselle Gerolami responds to Charlie Post on the strengths and weaknesses of left organization, including Solidarity, of which she is a member.
Put workers and patients first!
Town hall meeting with UVM Medical Center unions
by Vermont May Day StrongWorkers at the University of Vermont Medical Center fight for a fair contract as the possibility of a strike looms.
Trump’s ethnonationalist immigration agenda
A departure from historical precedent
by Avery WearAvery Wear argues that Trump’s second-term immigration agenda marks a historical shift from labor management to ethnonationalism, demanding a new left strategy.
Revolutionary Futures
A Letter to the class of 2026 on Reform or Revolution
by Promise LiPromise Li delivers a talk at Occidental College on “reform vs. revolution” that describes how Marxism provides a framework for students and individuals to understand their entry into the workforce as part of a positive political project.
Frustration and anger on Syria’s streets
Protest is widespread but mostly local
by Joseph DaherJoseph Daher reports on a surge of protest in Syria.
Standing up to MAGA’s war against the people
by United Left Platform
The United Left Platform statement on the escalation of state-sponsored murders of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine by the Trump administration and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.
Solidarity without exception
Introductory notes about supporting the people of Ukraine and Iran
by Sam FriedmanSam Friedman argues for the connection between the Left’s principled defense of the rights of national self-determination, in places like Iran and Ukraine, with the historic development of capitalism and imperialism and the movements which arose in struggle against them.
Iran’s Revolution was not destined to end in clerical rule
by Hossam el-Hamalawy
Hossam el-Hamalawy argues that the outcome of the Iranian Revolution was not inevitable. It contained democratic and egalitarian possibilities that were defeated through political struggle rather than cultural destiny.