New Articles
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Afro-surrealism with a banging soundtrack
What makes I Love Boosters distinctive is the clarity of its class politics—a review by Glenn Allen.
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Patrimonial Bonapartism
Anthony Teso makes the case for seeing Trump’s regime as patrimonial and Bonapartist in character rather than fascist or populist-authoritarian.
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Tempest, the United Front approach, and “the Resistance”
Aaron Amaral assesses how revolutionaries should relate to the constellation of forces that have grown up in opposition to the Trump administration and its authoritarian efforts
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From squats to trenches
Paweł Jędral reports on the activity and ideas of a Ukrainian leftist collective in the armed resistance to the Russian invasion.
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Solidarity with striking ICE hostages!
Tempest interviews Izzy, a NYC activist, about their experiences in organizing in support of the strikers and their families at the Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center.
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UAW divests from Israel bonds
After UAWD members forced the amendment onto the Constitutional Convention agenda, UAW delegates voted to divest the union’s reported $400,000 in Israel bonds, marking a victory for decades of rank-and-file organizing. Navruz Baum reports.
Recent Articles
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Redeeming the past for a revolutionary future
Sean Isaacs describes how Revolutionary Forgiveness offers meaningful alternatives to the carceral system.
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UAWD Getting Back to the Future of Labor Organizing
In its present form, Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), a class struggle caucus of the UAW, hopes to build a better union–and labor movement–one shop floor at a time. B. Colby Hamilton discusses the history of the UAWD split and the priorities, strategies, and tactics for the caucus one year following its near dissolution.
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The Cultural Movement that Once Defeated Neo-Nazism
Bill Roberts reviews Geoff Brown’s A People’s History of the Anti Nazi League, documenting the formation of the Anti Lazi League (1977-1981) to combat the rise of the neo-Nazi National Front, as well as the surrounding cultural antiracist movement of late-1970s Great Britain.
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The state of the unions in the U.S.
The reformist Left tends to equate union membership with union militancy, as if the first automatically leads to the second. However, to bring about real and meaningful change, we need not only bodies in the streets but also militant workers in all kinds of workplaces, Jacob Sloan explains.
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Rebuilding labor solidarity across the border
Héctor Rivera and Hannah M report on a binational labor summit between workers in the U.S. and Mexico that took place in April.
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War, economic crisis, and discontent in Putin’s Russia
Ashley Smith interviews the editors of Posle, a Russian socialist website, about Putin’s war, regime, popular grievances, and the challenges of resistance under autocracy.
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A tribute to Sandra Reed
Lee Wengraf writes this tribute to the recently deceased death penalty abolitionist, Sandra Reed. As the mother of the wrongly convicted death row prisoner Rodney Reed, Sandra spent decades both fighting for her son’s freedom while calling attention to the barbarity and racism of the U.S. criminal injustice system. Free Rodney Reed! Sandra Reed presente!
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Violence enabled by the state
Eric Maroney speaks out about the stabbing death of trans teenager Juniper Blessing.
