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  • Socialism and the Kitchen Sink – December 2022

    Camila Valle returns with another puzzle in her series, Socialism and the Kitchen Sink for December 2022.

  • Blue graffiti on pink wall reading, "Ceci une critique du capitalisme," or this is a critique of capitalism

    Confronting authoritarian neoliberalism: the challenges facing the Left

    Warren Montag, in this interview with Dimitris Givisis, offers global perspectives for the current capitalist conjuncture.

  • image in blue and black tones of scholar and socialist activist John Molyneux, a bearded older white man with glasses, wearing a button-down shirt.

    In Memoriam: John Molyneux

    Tempest member Phil Gasper discusses the work and politics of the prominent and dedicated British Marxist John Molyneux.

  • solidarity with China protests

    Solidarity statement with protests in China

    A joint solidarity statement on the protests in China by New Politics, Spectre, and Tempest.

  • After the rail fiasco

    Joe Allen explains that Biden’s blatant strike-breaking in the imposition of an unpopular contract on rail workers with the support of the DSA “Squad” is a betrayal and a political blunder.

  • graffiti on a rail car

    The DSA caboose

    Andy Sernatinger looks at the votes by members of the “the Squad” for a Congressional bill that forces a contract on rail workers and what the stakes are for DSA and the Left.

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    Eight socialist groups offer a summary statement of their political perspectives heading into 2021.

  • The empire strikes back

    Ashley Smith previews Biden’s foreign policy, arguing that what is coming is not simply a return to Obama-era multilateralism, but an attempt to deepen Trump’s focus on the great power rivalries, especially with China.

  • Anti-abortion politics are far right politics

    Megan Lessard describes the history of the anti-abortion movement in the U.S. and explains that it is an important part of the growing threat posed by the far right.

  • Is socialism winning?

    Emma Wilde Botta contends that the idea that socialism is winning misreads the moment.

  • Council power in the Iranian labor movement

    Nasrin discusses how the memory of workers’ councils during the revolution of 1979 in Iran has shaped a new wave of class struggles in that country the last few years.

  • Monuments to oppression

    Bill Keach assesses the struggle to remove, relocate, and/or destroy certain monuments and statutes as both a reckoning with histories of racism and oppression and part of the process of envisioning a better future.

  • What is socialism from below?

    Sean Larson outlines different conceptions of socialism and asserts that only the self-emancipation of the working class can lead to the world we want.

  • The elephant (and the donkey) in the room

    Reflecting on the end of the election period, Luis Meiners compares the sharp attention to issues of empire paid by the U.S. establishment, with the relative silence on the part of much of the U.S. Left.

  • Islamophobia unleashed in France

    Sylvestre Jaffard, a member of the NPA, explains the context for the reactionary and Islamophobic backlash by the French government, following the murder of teacher Samuel Paty.