New Articles
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Revolution means smashing the state
Any responsible approach to overcoming capitalism, argues brian bean, must grapple with the need to dismantle the capitalist state and replace it with our own democratic institutions from below.
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Giving credit to the wrong class
Did workers “pivot” toward striking for union recognition because of New Deal legislation, as Eric Blanc claims? Kim Moody looks at what really drove the labor upsurge of the early 1930s.
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The legacy of occupation and the fight for a democratic Iraq
brian bean interviews Workers Against Sectarianism on the struggle against sectarian politics in Iraq.
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Public sector power: Building rank & file organization under Mayor Eric Adams
A Tempest (NYC) public event on union struggles in the City’s public sector.
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UK workers strike back
Daniel Randall reports on the strike wave in Britain and analyzes the dynamics and lessons from the biggest labor upsurge in a generation.
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Neocolonial wastelands
Daniel Johnson reports on the current situation following a 2021 investigation by Greenpeace that revealed how European countries, led by the U.K., Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, have shipped millions of tons of waste to Turkey.
Recent Articles
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Socialists and the BAmazon Union
Nasrin discusses the lack of a coordinated response from the Democratic Socialists of America to what could be the most significant union election in the South in decades.
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Electoral politics ≠ Black liberation
Phillip Clark assesses the current political moment and argues that Black liberation cannot be realized through electoral politics.
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Texas freeze
Texas-based socialist Snehal Shingavi dissects the most common explanations for the Great Texas Freeze of 2021 and finds they fail to address the systemic causes which are not at all unique to Texas.
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Biden’s border regime
Ashley Smith analyses Biden’s immigration proposals and executive orders, and finds small steps forwards lost to the rapid return to a reactionary status quo ante.
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How Boston beat the far right
A number of Boston socialists reflect on one of the most important confrontations with the far-right in the U.S. during the Trump years as a model of organizing and mass challenge to the racists and their enablers.
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Crossword politics
Camila Valle interviews puzzle constructor Natan Last about the sometime hidden, sometimes open politics of crosswords.
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Iraq’s October revolution
Nasrin summarizes an important new book that maps the recent uprisings in North Africa and West Asia.
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Amazon workers and the southern key?
Sumona Gupta provides an important introduction to the background behind the current efforts to unionize Amazon workers in Alabama.
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Where is UPS going?
Joe Allen calls attention to the ongoing restructuring at UPS, evidenced by the recent sale of UPS Freight, and why this sale and the recent history of UPS restructuring should be red flags for rank and file Teamsters and the union as a whole.