New Articles

  • Racism, self-determination, and the dissolution of the Palestine working group

    The DSA voted to dissolve the BDS and Palestine Solidarity Working Group (BDSWG) and force it into the International Committee despite protest from both groups. To ignore the gravity of this decision and its implications would be a disastrous mistake–a mistake reflected in the celebration of the new DSA leadership.

  • Speaking tour: Resisting Russian imperialism

    Four scholars and leftists from Ukraine and Russia will participate in a speaking tour with events in Chicago, New York, and Berkeley.

  • Did the DSA Convention Move Left?

    Andy Sernatinger analyzes the developments from DSA’s 2023 National Convention.

  • Starving Armenians and very tasty cookies

    The blockade is a form of terrorism, meant to drive people from their homeland. Starvation is a weapon of genocide, but for the moment Artsakh’s residents are doing everything they can to hold on.

  • Viola Liuzzo (1925-1965)

    On the 60th anniversary of the civil rights March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Hank Kennedy tells the riveting story of a mostly unsung civil rights hero, Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the KKK in 1965 and then smeared by the FBI and police.

  • UAW rally in Warren, Michigan

    On August 25, 97 percent of the 150,000 auto workers represented by the UAW voted to authorize a strike if an agreement is not reached before their contracts expire on September 14. Hank Kennedy reports on a rally of the United Auto Workers in Warren, Michigan last weekend before the strike authorization vote.

Recent Articles

  • Revolutionary defeatism, yesterday and today

    Simon Hannah reviews the varied Left positions in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and how to understand Lenin’s position of “revolutionary defeatism” in the current war.

  • Zionists fear the picket

    Joel Reinstein unpacks Liza Featherstone’s recent defense of DSA’s ostensible solidarity with Palestine, and finds logical fallacies and factual mistakes.

  • Israel’s murder of Shireen Abu Akleh

    Joel Reinstein assesses the fallout from the assassination of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by the Israeli military.

  • CTU election

    Joe Allen examines the context of the 2022 CTU elections, the impact of its leadership on Chicago politics, teacher unionism, and the trade union movement nationally, and argues for the importance of a vote for CORE.

  • In memory of Neal Adams

    Hank Kennedy celebrates Neal Adams’ political and artistic contributions to the world of comic books in this obituary.

  • Reflections on building the third camp

    Since the 1960s, Cuban-born Samuel Farber has been an activist and writer with a third camp, anti-capitalist, anti-Stalinist perspective. He talked to Kent Worcester about his political development, his experiences—and his reflections on people, movements, and organizations—from his earliest years to today.

  • The fight back to defend abortion rights begins

    Tempest follows up on last week’s series of reports from the front with additional abortion rights protests and more upcoming actions this weekend around the country in response to the leaked draft Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade.

  • Next steps to regain abortion rights

    Even though popular support for abortion rights stands at more than two-thirds, the Supreme Court seems dead set on overturning Roe v. Wade. Haley Pessin and Natalia Tylim look at why this majority hasn’t ruled in official politics and the kind of organizing it will take to turn things around.

  • The left wing of the possible?

    Bill Keach reviews A Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism by Doug Greene.