Category: Article
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San Francisco educators endorse BDS
Alex Schmaus and brian bean report on the first public school educators union in the U.S. to endorse boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israeli apartheid.
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Confusion is not a path forward
Joe Allen critically examines Chris Maisano’s recent piece, “US-China Tensions Are Escalating. What Does That Mean for the Left?” and is left with more questions than clarifying answers.
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Imperialist Keynesianism
Ashley Smith contextualizes the Biden administration program, and argues that it represents a Keynesian break from decades of neo-liberal policy. However, it is a break driven in the first instance by the imperative to rehabilitate the profitability of U.S. capitalism and U.S. imperial power.
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View from the warehouse floor
Malli Nath writes of their experience as a Texas Fed Ex warehouse worker in light of the murders at an Indianapolis warehouse, the failed BAmazon organizing effort, and popular cultural representation of logistics work.
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A truck full of sensors
A Teamster in Oklahoma City describes how UPS uses new surveillance technology to undermine the union.
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The Black Legion and beyond.
Hank Kennedy looks at the history of far right organizing in Michigan and the meaning of its recent resurgence.
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Defeat in Bessemer
Longtime socialist and Teamster, Joe Allen, critically assesses both the defeat of the Amazon organizing drive as well as the limitations of the lessons being drawn by some on the Left.
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The Paris Commune and workers’ democracy
Thomas Hummel draws some of the principled lessons of the Paris Commune that have guided the socialist Left for 150 years, and asks how today’s Left measures up in having learned those lessons.
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Addressing the climate emergency with a Biden government
Paul Fleckenstein reviews the state of the climate movement and climate policy at the start of the Biden era.
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No war, no KKK
Bill Mullen reviews No Fascist USA!, a new book covering anti-KKK organizing in the 1970s and 80s and argues that it contains important lessons for today.