For a strategy of independence and mass struggle
A reply to Todd Chretien
by Ashley SmithAshley Smith responds to Todd Chretien’s defense of Zohran Mamdani.
Mamdani’s fight is our fight
A reply to Ashley Smith
by Todd ChretienTodd Chretien argues that socialists need to find “a useful role inside the Mamdani experiment” instead of issuing warnings from outside.
Hiding our goals is no way to win
A response to Ben Burgis
by brian bean and Thomas Hummelbrian bean and Thomas Hummel respond to Ben Burgis’s recent Jacobin article, “The Point of Politics is to Convince People, Not Grandstand.”
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.