Banking failures and a system in crisis
by Thomas Hummel
Thomas Hummel examines the recent run of bank failures and finds a system riven by crisis and contradictions.
The dialectics of defeat—lessons from the United Kingdom
A Review of This is Only the Beginning
by Aaron AmaralAaron Amaral reviews Michael Chessum’s book This is Only the Beginning.
“We’re all here for the same reason”
Lessons from Community Defense in Ohio
by Jonah ben Avraham and Amber BoardmanJonah ben Avraham and Amber Boardman are Ohio-based socialists working to defend queer communities from fascist violence and they discuss the lessons of the past several months and the new challenges facing anti-fascists around the country.
Resisting the backlash
Tempest panel to defend Black studies
by Kristen Godfrey, Jesse Hagopian, Daniel HoSang, and Phil GasperSpeakers on the Tempest Panel “Resisting the Backlash, Defending Black Studies” look to educator organizing and labor movements in higher education as inspiring sites of struggle to defend Black studies against the right-wing backlash.
A rocky road on the upward path of labor action
Major struggles are brewing in 2023
by Kim MoodyKim Moody looks at the changing economic, internal union, and political contexts for workers whose contracts expire this year and argues that intransigent employers will face a union workforce with years of accumulated grievances, a cost-of-living crisis, and a rebellious rank and file. We can expect major struggles in 2023. This offers a huge opportunity for socialists. But without the assertion of rank-and-file organization and power, he explains, the potential for labor in 2023 will be lost.
It’s OK to be angry about Bernie Sanders’ new book
by Shamus Cooke
Tens of thousands of activists were inspired to join socialist Bernie Sanders’ campaigns for president in 2016 and 2020. Shamus Cooke reviews Bernie’s latest book and argues that the Sanders project of shifting the Democratic Party leftward has squandered the movement in a time of crisis and need.
Fatal abstractions
Disease, death, and capitalist abstraction
by Sam FriedmanThere are effective vaccines for COVID-19 and effective treatments for HIV/AIDS, but both remain global epidemics. Medical researcher Sam Friedman explains how the profit system is limiting the reach of life-saving medicines.
On the Chicago race for mayor
An opportunity for the Left
by Kirstin RobertsKirstin Roberts argues that given the stark political choice, the broad mobilization of left and movement forces in support of Brandon Johnson, and the groundwork laid over the last decade by union and social struggles in Chicago, the elections offer real opportunities for socialists committed to political independence.
Making sense of Chicago’s election
Harold Washington’s 1983 campaign redux?
by Joe AllenJoe Allen sets the Chicago mayoral election in historical context and argues that the choice on offer, however stark, also reflects the political limits of the strength of the Left and our (social and trade union) movements.
The life and politics of Walter Rodney
A review of A Rebel’s Guide to Walter Rodney
by Anyanwu LTempest’s Anyanwu L. reviews A Rebel’s Guide to Walter Rodney by Chinedu Chukwudinma.