Redeeming the past for a revolutionary future
A review of D. K. Renton’s Revolutionary Forgiveness
by Sean K. IsaacsSean Isaacs describes how Revolutionary Forgiveness offers meaningful alternatives to the carceral system.
UAWD Getting Back to the Future of Labor Organizing
Building a better union, one shop floor at a time.
by B. Colby HamiltonIn its present form, Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), a class struggle caucus of the UAW, hopes to build a better union–and labor movement–one shop floor at a time. B. Colby Hamilton discusses the history of the UAWD split and the priorities, strategies, and tactics for the caucus one year following its near dissolution.
The Cultural Movement that Once Defeated Neo-Nazism
A review of A People’s History of the Anti Nazi League
by Bill RobertsBill Roberts reviews Geoff Brown’s A People’s History of the Anti Nazi League, documenting the formation of the Anti Lazi League (1977-1981) to combat the rise of the neo-Nazi National Front, as well as the surrounding cultural antiracist movement of late-1970s Great Britain.
Party time?
A conversation on socialist party-building
by David Camfield and Charlie PostDavid Camfield and Charlie Post discuss socialist party-building.
The state of the unions in the U.S.
by Jacob Sloan
The reformist Left tends to equate union membership with union militancy, as if the first automatically leads to the second. However, to bring about real and meaningful change, we need not only bodies in the streets but also militant workers in all kinds of workplaces, Jacob Sloan explains.
Rebuilding labor solidarity across the border
Report from the Casa Obrera de Baja California summit
by Héctor Rivera and Hannah MHéctor Rivera and Hannah M report on a binational labor summit between workers in the U.S. and Mexico that took place in April.
War, economic crisis, and discontent in Putin’s Russia
An interview with Posle
by Ashley SmithAshley Smith interviews the editors of Posle, a Russian socialist website, about Putin’s war, regime, popular grievances, and the challenges of resistance under autocracy.
A tribute to Sandra Reed
Death penalty abolitionist in “the belly of the beast”
by Lee WengrafLee Wengraf writes this tribute to the recently deceased death penalty abolitionist, Sandra Reed. As the mother of the wrongly convicted death row prisoner Rodney Reed, Sandra spent decades both fighting for her son’s freedom while calling attention to the barbarity and racism of the U.S. criminal injustice system. Free Rodney Reed! Sandra Reed presente!
Violence enabled by the state
A statement on the murder of Juniper Blessing
by Eric MaroneyEric Maroney speaks out about the stabbing death of trans teenager Juniper Blessing.
Femonationalism in the Alternative for Germany
by Aya Anzouk
Aya Anzouk analyzes the weaponization of feminism in right-wing populist movements, specifically in the influential Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).