Category: Article
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The rank-and-file strategy goes to school
New York City school teacher Peter Allen Lamphere explains the role of a rank and file caucus in advancing class struggles and shares some insights regarding recent socialist debates.
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How rock became white (part 2)
In the second of a three-part series, Geoff Bailey, looks at the process of cultural commodification and the racial politics of The Beatles, Motown, and the rise of Soul. Plus we listen to some great music…
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Debrief of the 2020 YDSA Convention
Emerson Bannon Cutri reports on this summer’s convention and reflects on what the political dynamics mean for DSA going forward
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A union wave for Twin Cities hospitality workers
Paul KD charts the rapid growth of a union movement among craft breweries and service workers in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Tasks of the Left after the “debate”
Ashley Smith responds to the debacle that was the first presidential debate, but argues that there are important lessons to take away and that the Left must fight to defend basic democratic freedoms from the Right.
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Any way you cut it…
Alex Schmaus reports on the state of the defund movement in San Francisco, including the strategic and tactical debates among its supporters.
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A threshold has been crossed
Joe Allen looks at the rising threat of the Far Right, its relationship to the Trump Administration, and its implications for the Left before and after the November elections.
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Reflections on the rebellions
Sudip Bhattacharya, mixes firsthand accounts of the rebellion for Black Lives with reflections of the political lessons that socialists and progressives should take away from the events of recent months.
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Right populism or neofascism?
British socialist, David Renton, looks at the historical approaches of the socialist movement to defining and fighting fascism.
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Trump’s execution mania
As Trump ramps up federal executions, veteran abolitionist, Lee Wengraf, lays out the recent history of the death penalty and abolitionist attempts to defeat it.