New Articles
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2025, An uneven year for a labor movement still in trouble
Kim Moody analyzes union growth in 2025, noting that while union coverage was up, strikes were down.
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Wars on the people: Repression and resistance at home and abroad
On April 9, 2026, United Left Platform will host a panel on the Trump wars at home and abroad.
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Lebanon and Hezbollah in the wake of empire
The U.S.-Israel war has expanded into Lebanon. Joseph Daher analyses its impact on Lebanon and on Iran’s ally Hezbollah.
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Ernst Meyer, Leninist
Understanding the revolutionary process in Germany, over the first half of the twentieth century, and especially in the period from 1917 to 1928, is critically important for all revolutionaries. John Marot reviews Florian Wilde’s contribution to this understanding in his biography of one of the leaders of the German revolutionary movement, Ernst Mayer.
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Four years of resistance in Ukraine
Ukrainian socialists Maryna Mykhalova and Snizhana Oleksun address the International Committee of the Fourth International.
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A crisis everywhere, shared unequally
The Iran war is spreading misery around the world, starting with the most vulnerable places. Sirantos Fotopoulos argues that the source of the war—and the misery—is the system of energy-for-profit.
Recent Articles
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Organizing for reform and socialism in the Mamdani era
In this response to Ashley Smith, Alan Maass argues in support of electoral socialist campaigns, including those that make use of the Democratic Party line.
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Mamdani’s mayoral control mishap
NYC educators Peter Allen-Lamphere and Chris O’Brien analyze and critique Mamdani’s support for mayoral control of the city’s schools.
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The long arc of struggle
Harsha Walia argues in the context of the mass mobilizations against ICE in Minnesota, for a politics grounded in the long arc of struggle and learning across generations.
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Iran: The anatomy of Dey
Iranian exile Siyavash Shahabi explores the roots of the country’s crisis and the currents that make up the recent wave of resistance.
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U.S. out of Venezuela – ICE out of our communities!
The United Left Platform is hosting a meeting to help build the movements in opposition to U.S. imperialism and against Trump’s wars abroad and those here in the U.S.
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Resistance to ICE’s war on Chicago
Members of the Chicago Tempest Collective compiled these oral history interviews with anti-ICE activists in Chicago.
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Minneapolis shows the way
Friday’s mass strike actions in Minneapolis could be a major step forward for resisting Trump’s racist campaign of street terror—and an example for activists in other cities to follow. A Tempest National Committee statement.
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The end of pretenses
The January 3 attack on Venezuela, says Anderson Bean, was the collision of U.S. imperial escalation with a regime that had dismantled the very social forces capable of defending sovereignty from below.
