Organizing Amazon
Prospects and challenges
by Joe AllenJoe Allen discusses the significance of the organizing drive at Amazon in Bessemer, Alabama
Socialists and the BAmazon Union
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.
Electoral politics ≠ Black liberation
by Phillip Clark
Phillip Clark assesses the current political moment and argues that Black liberation cannot be realized through electoral politics.
Texas freeze
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.
Biden’s border regime
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.
How Boston beat the far right
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.
Crossword politics
by Camila Valle
Camila Valle interviews puzzle constructor Natan Last about the sometime hidden, sometimes open politics of crosswords.
Iraq’s October revolution
by Sam Salour
Sam Salour summarizes an important new book that maps the recent uprisings in North Africa and West Asia.
Amazon workers and the southern key?
An Alabama song
by Sumona GuptaSumona Gupta provides an important introduction to the background behind the current efforts to unionize Amazon workers in Alabama.
Where is UPS going?
by Joe Allen
Joe Allen calls attention to the ongoing restructuring at UPS, evidenced by the recent sale of UPS Freight, and why this sale and the recent history of UPS restructuring should be red flags for rank and file Teamsters and the union as a whole.