Prospects for organized mass struggle
There are no guarantees
by Mel BienenfeldMel Bienenfeld offers an optimistic assessment of the emerging struggles against Trumpism and calls for greater organization.
Building solidarity in auto: across the shop floor, across the borders
An interview with Jessie Kelly, UAW Local 160
by Jessie Kelly and Dennis KosuthAn interview with UAW Local 160 member and skilled mold-maker, Jessie Kelly, about Trump, tariff policy, U.S. nationalism and the struggle to build an internationalist and solidaristic class politics on the shop floor and within the Union.
NYC teachers may toss out union leaders
Grassroots discontent could end a sixty-year reign
by Peter Allen-Lamphere and Chris O’BrienThe country’s biggest teachers’ union may vote for a major change, but a three-way election is making the results hard to predict. Peter Allen-Lamphere and Chris O’Brien explain what’s at stake.
Inside Die Linke
An interview on the state of the German Left Party
by Frieda Holm, Sean Larson, Maria SommerSean Larson sat down with Frieda Holm and Maria Sommer of the revolutionary socialist group marx21 to discuss Die Linke’s recent election success and the challenges facing the party and the Left in Germany.
Bay Area teachers rally to defend public education and protest ICE
Report from the front
by Bill Balderston and Sarah WheelsA report on the May 17 California-wide day of action in defense of public education, a demonstration which amplified calls of solidarity and targeted the Trump administration, its racism, and its attacks on the working class and our communities.
Michael Gloss’s real and imaginary wars
The lie of Russian “anti-fascism”
by Anatoly DobryninAnatoly Dobrynin examines the conditions that enabled leftist student Michael Gloss to fight on the side of Putin’s Russia against Ukraine and die in the service of Russian imperialism.
Fighting Oligarchy
Bernie and AOC are no substitute for socialist organization
by TetoTeto Huezo delivers a critical assessment of Bernie Sanders’ and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Fighting Oligarchy Tour
Only the beginning of the struggle
Reports on May Day demonstrations
by TempestTempest comrades from a number of cities report on their involvement in recent May Day actions.
The Professoriate v. Trump
A report back on the Higher Education National Day of Action
by TempestThe actions signal the beginnings of a convergence between academic labor organizing, Palestine solidarity work, and immigrant defense networks. They demonstrate a necessary and healthy development in the response to the Trump Administration’s attacks on immigrants, trans people, education, working people, and civil liberties, but they are only a first step.
A solidarity message from Canada on the UAW and auto tariffs
by Bruce Allen
A powerful statement to the labor movement and auto workers from Bruce Allen, a former president of Unifor Local 199, opposing Trump’s tariff policies. This was read at one of the twin rallies held on April 26, 2025 in Detroit and across the Canadian border in Windsor, Ontario.