Category: Article
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The market compels it
Restaurant worker Natalia Tylim discusses the experience of restaurant reopening in New York City this winter before broad vaccine distribution.
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Worker and popular education
Avery Wear and James Boyle discuss the massive adult education system organized by the U.S. Left in the early 20th century.
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Strange alchemy
Andy Sernatinger and Emma Wilde Botta critique a strategy popular among leaders of Democratic Socialists of America that places socialist politics inside the Democratic Party.
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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.