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    Party time? 

    David Camfield and Charlie Post discuss socialist party-building.

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    The state of the unions in the U.S.

    The reformist Left tends to equate union membership with union militancy, as if the first automatically leads to the second. However, to bring about real and meaningful change, we need not only bodies in the streets but also militant workers in all kinds of workplaces, Jacob Sloan explains.

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    Rebuilding labor solidarity across the border

    Héctor Rivera and Hannah M report on a binational labor summit between workers in the U.S. and Mexico that took place in April.

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    War, economic crisis, and discontent in Putin’s Russia

    Ashley Smith interviews the editors of Posle, a Russian socialist website, about Putin’s war, regime, popular grievances, and the challenges of resistance under autocracy.

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    A tribute to Sandra Reed

    Lee Wengraf writes this tribute to the recently deceased death penalty abolitionist, Sandra Reed. As the mother of the wrongly convicted death row prisoner Rodney Reed, Sandra spent decades both fighting for her son’s freedom while calling attention to the barbarity and racism of the U.S. criminal injustice system. Free Rodney Reed! Sandra Reed presente!

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    Violence enabled by the state

    Eric Maroney speaks out about the stabbing death of trans teenager Juniper Blessing.

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    Ernst Meyer, Leninist

    Understanding the revolutionary process in Germany, over the first half of the twentieth century, and especially in the period from 1917 to 1928, is critically important for all revolutionaries. John Marot reviews Florian Wilde’s contribution to this understanding in his biography of one of the leaders of the German revolutionary movement, Ernst Mayer.

  • A photo of the backs of two people looking toward a building with Ukranian flags flying in front.

    Four years of resistance in Ukraine

    Ukrainian socialists Maryna Mykhalova and Snizhana Oleksun address the International Committee of the Fourth International.

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    A crisis everywhere, shared unequally

    The Iran war is spreading misery around the world, starting with the most vulnerable places. Sirantos Fotopoulos argues that the source of the war—and the misery—is the system of energy-for-profit.

  • Venezuela después del golpe

    Ashley Smith conversa con Federico Fuentes sobre la Doctrina Donroe, la crisis del chavismo y la resistencia antiimperialista. 

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    The Revolutionary Development of Global Marxism

    Paul Le Blanc reviews books on global Marxism by Simin Fadaee and Kevin Anderson.

  • Creations of the Third World

    What’s the connection between capitalism and plunder? Sarang Narasimhaiah replies to Vivek Chibber.

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    UAW Local 2325 commits to a strike vote to fight ICE 

    Navruz Baum and Andrew Bergman detail how UAWD members in Local 2325 have organized for a strike authorization vote to prepare for mass, democratic labor action against ICE.

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    Trump’s mounting threats against Cuba

    Samuel Farber discusses the escalating threats against Cuba from the Trump administration, building on a recent essay on the crisis in Against the Current.

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    Mexican union wins bid to represent truck drivers

    Avery Wear interviews leader about Mexican union win.