Worker and popular education
by Avery Wear & James Boyle
Avery Wear and James Boyle discuss the massive adult education system organized by the U.S. Left in the early 20th century.
Strange alchemy
The party surrogate and socialist politics in DSA
by Andy Sernatinger & Emma Wilde BottaAndy Sernatinger and Emma Wilde Botta critique a strategy popular among leaders of Democratic Socialists of America that places socialist politics inside the Democratic Party.
San Francisco educators endorse BDS
by Alex Schmaus and brian bean
Alex Schmaus and brian bean report on the first public school educators union in the U.S. to endorse boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israeli apartheid.
Confusion is not a path forward
A response to Chris Maisano
by Joe AllenJoe Allen critically examines Chris Maisano’s recent piece, “US-China Tensions Are Escalating. What Does That Mean for the Left?” and is left with more questions than clarifying answers.
Imperialist Keynesianism
Biden’s program for rehabilitating U.S. capitalism
by Ashley SmithAshley Smith contextualizes the Biden administration program, and argues that it represents a Keynesian break from decades of neo-liberal policy. However, it is a break driven in the first instance by the imperative to rehabilitate the profitability of U.S. capitalism and U.S. imperial power.
View from the warehouse floor
Murder, defeat, and other episodes
by Malli NathMalli Nath writes of their experience as a Texas Fed Ex warehouse worker in light of the murders at an Indianapolis warehouse, the failed BAmazon organizing effort, and popular cultural representation of logistics work.
A truck full of sensors
On the surveillance of UPS drivers
by A Local 886 TeamsterA Teamster in Oklahoma City describes how UPS uses new surveillance technology to undermine the union.
The Black Legion and beyond.
The (less and less) hidden history of the Michigan far right
by Hank KennedyHank Kennedy looks at the history of far right organizing in Michigan and the meaning of its recent resurgence.
Defeat in Bessemer
A wake up call for the Left and labor
by Joe AllenLongtime socialist and Teamster, Joe Allen, critically assesses both the defeat of the Amazon organizing drive as well as the limitations of the lessons being drawn by some on the Left.
The Paris Commune and workers’ democracy
Lessons for the socialist movement
by Thomas HummelThomas Hummel draws some of the principled lessons of the Paris Commune that have guided the socialist Left for 150 years, and asks how today’s Left measures up in having learned those lessons.