Block, squander, disorganize?
Socialists and the 2024 elections – A reply to Max Elbaum
by Ashley SmithAshley Smith responds to Max Elbaum’s overheated polemic on the question of strategy for socialists in the 2024 elections.
Lenin, Luxemburg, and the revolutionary tradition
A clarification and a response
by Helen Scott and Paul LeBlancHelen Scott and Paul Le Blanc respond to John Marot, offering a clarification of their position on Rosa Luxemburg.
Luxemburg’s lessons and the roots of Stalinism
A reply to Helen Scott and Paul Le Blanc
by John MarotIn a follow up to his article, Rosa Luxemburg and the democratic road to socialist revolution, John Marot responds to Helen Scott and Paul Le Blanc.
Luxemburg on the Russian Revolution
A correction
by Helen Scott and Paul LeBlancHelen Scott and Paul Le Blanc, editors of Volume 5 of Verso’s Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, reply to John Marot’s Tempest article based on the book.
Once More on Hamas
A Reply to Sean Larson
by Dan LaBotz and Stephen R. ShalomAs part of a continuing exchange on October 7, the Palestinian resistance, and the posture of the Left towards Hamas, Dan La Botz and Stephen R. Shalom reply here to Sean Larson. La Botz and Shalom had previously submitted a response to an article by Jonah ben Avraham to which Larson, in turn, responded.
The Left under Brandon Johnson
Accommodation or struggle?
by brian beanbrian bean argues the need for independent organizing and struggle under Mayor Brandon Johnson in Chicago
On the Chicago race for mayor
An opportunity for the Left
by Kirstin RobertsKirstin Roberts argues that given the stark political choice, the broad mobilization of left and movement forces in support of Brandon Johnson, and the groundwork laid over the last decade by union and social struggles in Chicago, the elections offer real opportunities for socialists committed to political independence.
Making sense of Chicago’s election
Harold Washington’s 1983 campaign redux?
by Joe AllenJoe Allen sets the Chicago mayoral election in historical context and argues that the choice on offer, however stark, also reflects the political limits of the strength of the Left and our (social and trade union) movements.
No arms to Ukraine?
The Russian invasion and the task of U.S. socialists
by Nate MooreNate Moore explains why U.S. based socialists should not be opposing arms to Ukraine despite the inter-imperialist dynamics unleashed by the Russian invasion.
Giving credit to the wrong class
“Explaining” strikes for union recognition
by Kim MoodyDid workers “pivot” toward striking for union recognition because of New Deal legislation, as Eric Blanc claims? Kim Moody looks at what really drove the labor upsurge of the early 1930s.