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…
Israel promises war crimes
by Keith Rosenthal
…their intention to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity in its ongoing, escalating assault on Palestinians in general and Gaza in particular. The announcement this morning [Friday, October 13],…
Standing for justice in Palestine
Four reports from the front
by Paul KD, Sherry Wolf, Hank Kennedy, and Denée Jackson…Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), the Communist Party-USA, and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The University of Michigan Graduate Employees Organizing Committee…
Taking the dirty break seriously
Socialists, elections, and the Democratic Party
by Joe Evica and Andrew Sernatinger…Without a common project, all these campaigns are just the sum of their parts. Left electeds would benefit from communication, training, shared resources, fundraising mechanisms, generalized platforms, and other kinds…
Strike for abolition
A Michigan grad labor activist on striking to defund the police
by Alice Herman…listen. They’re obviously still representing police unions. I think it’s gonna be a pretty difficult struggle. Something that sort of immediately comes to mind though is by adding these demands,…
Understanding unions in the United States
A primer on labor law and history
by Andy Sernatinger…company unions. Before the NLRA, companies would try to deter workers from joining independent unions by creating their own rival, company-controlled unions to divide workers and weaken organizing efforts—exclusive representation…
Strange alchemy
The party surrogate and socialist politics in DSA
by Andy Sernatinger & Emma Wilde Botta…is little distinguishing their approach from that of groups they previously opposed in DSA. The new common sense is centered on a concept called the “party surrogate”—a “party-within-a-party” model promoted…
Being a socialist means being pro-abortion
by Moira Geary
…“not comfortable” putting me on a treadmill. Asked what was going to be done about my potential heart problem, the cardiologist told me I could “make an appointment if I…