Author: Avery Wear
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Mexican union wins bid to represent truck drivers
Avery Wear interviews leader about Mexican union win.
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We need socialism to save democracy
A radicalizing working-class majority is ripe for the long-held argument of the tradition of socialism from below: only revolutionary workers’ power, socialism, can win lasting democracy.
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Democrats are saboteurs in the resistance camp
Avery Wear argues that ignoring the differences between the increasingly authoritarian Republican Party and the Democrats isn’t politically effective. Socialists should acknowledge the reality of these differences while making clear that the Democratic Party—as a party of capital and capitalists, even liberal ones—will ultimately sabotage fights of working-class and oppressed people against the authoritarian and…
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Immigrants Are Leaders in Our Class Struggle
Avery Wear argues that immigrant workers are creating the first grassroots opposition to Trump’s second-term agenda and are critical to building an effective labor movement.
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The transformative power of solidarity
A review of Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor, Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea
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“We were marked for extinction, but we are still here.”
Avery Wear and Brian Ward interview Maria Whitehorse on organizing in San Diego to support Indigenous people and combat settler colonialism.
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Why we need a planned economy
Common wisdom, even among socialists, is that large-scale economic planning doesn’t work. Avery Wear reviews three key texts on the question and argues that planning is not only feasible but necessary.
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From union to workers’ council
Avery Wear argues that rank and file workplace organization can offer a path to revolutionary workers’ power.
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The contradictions of William Z. Foster
Avery Wear analyzes the tensions within the political life and writings of William Z. Foster.
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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.