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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.
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Two cases, one tradition
Blanca Missé argues that the legal repression of activists calls for a political response inside the courtroom—linked to organizing on the outside.
Recent Articles
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Femonationalism in the Alternative for Germany
Aya Anzouk analyzes the weaponization of feminism in right-wing populist movements, specifically in the influential Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).
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May Day 2026
San Francisco/SFO Airport Tempest members joined hundreds of workers and community members in support of SEIU-USWW SFO airport workers as they campaigned around raising minimum wages to $30/hr. The action blocked vehicle access to the International Terminal starting at 11 AM. As first vice president, Sanjay Garla reported, LAX workers recently won $30/hr minimum wage,…
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Muzan Alneel, 1986-2026
Shireen Akram-Boshar pays tribute to Muzan Alneel. Her sudden passing at the young age of 39 last month is a major loss for the Sudanese revolutionary movement and the people of Sudan.
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The coalition that swallows you
DSA member Anthony Teso observes that, although they might deny it, the Democratic Socialists of America are practicing popular frontism.
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No more 24!
Sign this letter in support of NYC home care workers as they struggle against hyper-exploitation, including a regime of 24-hour shifts for 13 hours’ pay.
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Hustle and hubris
Andy Storey intervenes in the ongoing debate about Trump’s foreign policy and leadership of U.S. imperialism and argues that the administration should be understood as closer to a pure kleptocracy than one systematically serving the U.S. capitalist class and its allies.
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Faultlines in a new epoch of crisis
We have entered a new epoch of crisis, imperial rivalry, authoritarian nationalism, and episodic, explosive resistance from below. Trump’s brief year of misrule has brought all these to a head. Ashley Smith explains.
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For an end to campism, the Iran war, and the anti-imperialist washing of the Islamic Republic
Somayeh Rostampour argues that opponents of U.S.and Israeli aggression in Iran must move beyond campism—or we will not succeed in rebuilding a genuinely emancipatory left or in revitalizing a truly popular internationalism.
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Communities not cages
Christopher Oliphant reports on April events resisting the spread of ICE’s capacity to detain immigrants in Michigan.