New Articles
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Trump’s ethnonationalist immigration agenda
Avery Wear argues that Trump’s second-term immigration agenda marks a historical shift from labor management to ethnonationalism, demanding a new left strategy.
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Revolutionary Futures
Promise Li delivers a talk at Occidental College on “reform vs. revolution” that describes how Marxism provides a framework for students and individuals to understand their entry into the workforce as part of a positive political project.
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Standing up to MAGA’s war against the people
The United Left Platform statement on the escalation of state-sponsored murders of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine by the Trump administration and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.
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Solidarity without exception
Sam Friedman argues for the connection between the Left’s principled defense of the rights of national self-determination, in places like Iran and Ukraine, with the historic development of capitalism and imperialism and the movements which arose in struggle against them.
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Iran’s Revolution was not destined to end in clerical rule
Hossam el-Hamalawy argues that the outcome of the Iranian Revolution was not inevitable. It contained democratic and egalitarian possibilities that were defeated through political struggle rather than cultural destiny.
Recent Articles
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UAW divests from Israel bonds
After UAWD members forced the amendment onto the Constitutional Convention agenda, UAW delegates voted to divest the union’s reported $400,000 in Israel bonds, marking a victory for decades of rank-and-file organizing. Navruz Baum reports.
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United Left Platform stands in solidarity with Minnesota and Michigan activists facing state repression
A statement from the United Left Platform in solidarity with fifteen anti-ICE activists in Minnesota and eight pro-Palestinian activists in Michigan who are now facing unjust charges for their participation in protests against the ICE occupation of the Twin Cities and the genocide in Gaza.
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The upsurge in Bolivia
The United Left Platform is hosting a virtual event on Friday, June 26 at 8pm ET to discuss the recent uprising in Bolivia and its impact both there and on the fight against imperialism and the far right internationally.
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Ukrainians in solidarity with Palestine
Ashley Smith interviews Andriy Movchan about their participation in the Global Sumud Flotilla and its significance for building solidarity between Ukrainians and Palestinians and their liberation struggles.
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Redeeming the past for a revolutionary future
Sean Isaacs describes how Revolutionary Forgiveness offers meaningful alternatives to the carceral system.
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UAWD Getting Back to the Future of Labor Organizing
In its present form, Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), a class struggle caucus of the UAW, hopes to build a better union–and labor movement–one shop floor at a time. B. Colby Hamilton discusses the history of the UAWD split and the priorities, strategies, and tactics for the caucus one year following its near dissolution.
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The Cultural Movement that Once Defeated Neo-Nazism
Bill Roberts reviews Geoff Brown’s A People’s History of the Anti Nazi League, documenting the formation of the Anti Lazi League (1977-1981) to combat the rise of the neo-Nazi National Front, as well as the surrounding cultural antiracist movement of late-1970s Great Britain.
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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.
