Category: Article
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The empire strikes back
Ashley Smith previews Biden’s foreign policy, arguing that what is coming is not simply a return to Obama-era multilateralism, but an attempt to deepen Trump’s focus on the great power rivalries, especially with China.
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Anti-abortion politics are far right politics
Megan Lessard describes the history of the anti-abortion movement in the U.S. and explains that it is an important part of the growing threat posed by the far right.
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Is socialism winning?
Emma Wilde Botta contends that the idea that socialism is winning misreads the moment.
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Council power in the Iranian labor movement
Nasrin and Sam Salour discuss how the memory of workers’ councils during the revolution of 1979 in Iran has shaped a new wave of class struggles in that country the last few years.
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Monuments to oppression
Bill Keach assesses the struggle to remove, relocate, and/or destroy certain monuments and statutes as both a reckoning with histories of racism and oppression and part of the process of envisioning a better future.
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What is socialism from below?
Sean Larson outlines different conceptions of socialism and asserts that only the self-emancipation of the working class can lead to the world we want.
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The elephant (and the donkey) in the room
Reflecting on the end of the election period, Luis Meiners compares the sharp attention to issues of empire paid by the U.S. establishment, with the relative silence on the part of much of the U.S. Left.
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Islamophobia unleashed in France
Sylvestre Jaffard, a member of the NPA, explains the context for the reactionary and Islamophobic backlash by the French government, following the murder of teacher Samuel Paty.
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A very “American” coup
Kit Adam Wainer argues that President Trump is in no position to steal an election or to lead a coup.
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Fighting for the air we breathe
Jessica Hansen-Weaver examines the larger implications of the recent surge of wildfires across the west coast.