Was I a recruiter for Don Quixote?
by Sam Friedman
A poem by socialist Sam Friedman is part of a collection reflecting on his radicalism from the 1960s forward.
When Iran is free
Ideological struggles within the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement
by FredAmid ongoing protests following the death of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amin in September while in Iranian police custody for several days after being arrested by the morality police, Fred, an Iranian socialist, analyzes the government’s harsh response, the different ideological factions that are within the “woman, life, freedom” movement, and where these opposition forces are situated in a future post-regime Iran.
Free Alaa Abd el-Fattah, #FreeThemAll
COP27 puts the spotlight on Egypt’s political prisoners
by brian bean and Shireen Akram-Bosharbrian bean and Shireen Akram-Boshar report on the campaign, during COP27, to save Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd el-Fattah.
Voices from Ukraine & Russia
An event co-hosted by The Real News Network and Haymarket Books
by TempestThe Real News Network, in partnership with Haymarket Books, hosts a panel with Ukrainian and Russian activists and academics.
Shitstorming the opposition
How the far right weaponized free speech to attack a Drag Story Time event
by Dean O'PossumDean O’Possum writes about a far-right effort to attack a local Drag Story Time event in Eugene, Oregon and the ideological landscape in which transphobic legislation, online conspiracies, and hate speech targeting trans youth must be understood, organized against, and resisted. Excerpt: Dean O’Possum writes about a far-right protest against a Drag Story Time event in Eugene, Oregon, why these attacks are spreading, and how we can fight back.
Kanye, Kyrie, and the continuum of antisemitic violence
by Naomi Bennet
Naomi Bennet addresses the antisemitic social media outbursts by Kanye West and Kyrie Irving and places them in the context and continuum of the wider growth of antisemitism, cultivated within ruling class and right-wing media and politics.
Ujima’s plan to transcend neoliberalism in Maryland
by Phillip Clark
Phillip Clark writes about the Ujima People’s Progress Party, an independent third-party led by Black workers in Baltimore, Maryland,and its ongoing initiative to get on the ballot this election cycle.
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.
The making of a Black Bolshevik
A review of Winston James’s new biography of Claude McKay
by Bill MullenBill Mullen argues that McKay deserves a good Marxist biographer and has found one in Winston James.
To organize, give people work they want to do
A response to Aaron Hall on DSA labor strategy
by Zyad HammadZyad Hammad of DSA’s NYC Labor Branch argues that what’s missing in DSA organizing is a “scaffolding” of different tiers of engagement that provides opportunities for members take on labor work with low barriers to entry and then advance to deeper involvement as they learn and grow in commitment.