New Articles

  • This is possible!

    In 2018, teachers struck across the South. These strikes were initiated and led by the rank-and-file in states that do not recognize collective bargaining and won significant gains for educators. In this first of two articles, Darrin Hoop interviews four rank-and-file workers about their experience and draws lessons for labor organizing today.

  • One year after Dobbs

    A panel of activists discusses strategies to mount a defense and counteroffensive to win full reproductive justice including free abortion one year following the Dobbs decision.

  • Resisting the shock doctrine

    Ashley Smith chairs an event with Yuliya Yurchenko, Eric Toussaint, and Sushovan Dhar on the global movement against neoliberalism, debt, and the struggle in Ukraine.

  • Drag defenders organize to outnumber the right in Royal Oak

    In this report back Hank Kennedy discusses the successful defense of Drag Story Time in Royal Oak, MI.

  • Erdoğan again, but for a slightly different reason

    Hakan Yilmaz examines the recent election victory of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and notes that the opposition’s defeat was particularly devastating, given the closeness of the election and the possibility for change in Turkey after the recent devastating earthquakes there.

  • a dead rose against a red background

    The blush is off the rose

    Ahead of the Democratic Socialists of America’s 2023 Convention, Natalia Tylim assesses the state of the organization.

Recent Articles

  • Victory to the Minneapolis strikers!

    Darrin Hoop reports on the Minneapolis educators’ strike, beginning today, on International Womens’ Day. He highlights how the anti-racist fight is at the center of the demands of the strike and the political energies earned from the struggle for justice for George Floyd.

  • A new face for old politics

    Ben Rosenfield profiles the rise of Eric Adams from police officer to Mayor of New York City in the era of Black Lives Matter.

  • It’s a bird, It’s a plane…no, it’s a union!

    Hank Kennedy situates the recent organizing drive of workers at Image comics into a longer history of efforts at Union organizing in that industry.

  • The rise of Ilhan Omar

    Shamus Cooke assesses the record of Representative Ilhan Omar and what her autobiography reveals about her political trajectory.

  • When commonsense fails

    This article was originally published in Spectre Journal. The following is an edited version, condensed for readability. The full-text can be read here.

  • Fascism is as Canadian as the maple leaf

    Todd Gordon puts the ongoing protest known as the “Freedom Convoy”, that started in Canada’s capital city and then spread, in its historical context with that country’s other fascist and far-right movements.

  • Russia out of Ukraine!

    Tempest Collective statement in opposition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Erin Cass writes on behalf of the Steering Committee.

  • Defeating the legacy of Pinochet

    Joaquín Araneda and Luis Meiners situate the recent electoral breakthrough for the Left in Chile in both the recent insurrectionary uprising of October 2019, and the longer term processes in Chile  from the Pinochet dictatorship, and the period of custodial democracy from 1990 to 2021.

  • Against Purgatory

    Adam Turl responds to Bhaskar Sunkara’s “The Left in Purgatory” , the lead editorial in the recent print issue of Jacobin, No. 44, Winter 2022.