Category: Article
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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.
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Organizing Amazon
Joe Allen discusses the significance of the organizing drive at Amazon in Bessemer, Alabama
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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.