A revolutionary socialist organizing project
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.
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.
Paul Fleckenstein reviews the state of the climate movement and climate policy at the start of the Biden era.
Bill Mullen reviews No Fascist USA!, a new book covering anti-KKK organizing in the 1970s and 80s and argues that it contains important lessons for today.
Prospects and challenges
by Joe AllenJoe Allen discusses the significance of the organizing drive at Amazon in Bessemer, Alabama
What was our response? What can we do better?
by Sam SalourSam Salour discusses the lack of a coordinated response from the Democratic Socialists of America to what could be the most significant union election in the South in decades.
Phillip Clark assesses the current political moment and argues that Black liberation cannot be realized through electoral politics.
An unexceptional disaster
by Snehal ShingaviTexas-based socialist Snehal Shingavi dissects the most common explanations for the Great Texas Freeze of 2021 and finds they fail to address the systemic causes which are not at all unique to Texas.
Postcards from the honeymoon
by Ashley SmithAshley Smith analyses Biden’s immigration proposals and executive orders, and finds small steps forwards lost to the rapid return to a reactionary status quo ante.
Reflections on August 19, 2017
by Bill KeachA number of Boston socialists reflect on one of the most important confrontations with the far-right in the U.S. during the Trump years as a model of organizing and mass challenge to the racists and their enablers.