What are the origins of May Day?
by Rosa Luxemburg
…a proletarian holiday celebration as a means to attain the eight-hour day was first born in Australia. The workers there decided in 1856 to organize a day of complete stoppage…
The tragedy of Puerto Rico
Lenin, four times
by Rafael Bernabe…free circulation of capital, competition between companies, the search of the highest profit by private businesses—to think that any (or a mix) of these features is going to bring about…
The left wing of the possible?
Review of A Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism
by Bill Keach…Afro-Socialist Caucus. But Greene is convincing when he argues: “When it comes to an orientation to the Democratic Party and ‘democratic-socialist’ reformism, Michael Harrington’s politics remain the ‘common sense’ of…
CTU election
Vote CORE: No steps backwards
by Joe Allen…many more issues. CORE activists have played a major role in upending long entrenched political fiefdoms across Chicago. Its support for the struggle for environmental justice on the city’s Southeast…
What we learned from the Teamster election
A state of the union of North America’s logistics union
by Andy Sernatinger…website www.ibtvote.org ). The ballot data, along with the union’s reports and filings, allow us to get a deeper look at what happened in the election, and more broadly get…
God save us from the queen
by Dana Cloud
…of a million Kenyan people in concentration camps, among many other instances of brutal colonial rule. Never has the regime apologized for the atrocities committed by imperial Britain. There have…
Solidarity with fired UPS Teamster
Reports from the front
by Thomas Hummel…sort of nonsense that’s very much par for the course in terms of how the company accuses workers of doing wrong. The company had to backtrack a little bit, and…
Socialism and the Kitchen Sink – December 2022
by Camila Valle
A Sunday socialist crossword puzzle, again by friend of the publication Camilla Valle. If you haven’t yet, please be sure to read her great interview on crossword politics with Natan…
Did the Left wing of the Second International foreshadow the politics of the Third?
by John Marot
…century the international workers movement has displayed the most variegated forms of struggle and organization, but nowhere have workers seized factories, organized factory committees, founding soviets commanding authority in the…
Did the DSA Convention Move Left?
by Andy Sernatinger
…the organization in between conventions) or various national committees (e.g. Green New Deal Campaign Commission, International Committee) that include NPC appointees in their leadership structure. This excludes the package of…