Category: Article
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Texas freeze
Texas-based socialist Snehal Shingavi dissects the most common explanations for the Great Texas Freeze of 2021 and finds they fail to address the systemic causes which are not at all unique to Texas.
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Biden’s border regime
Ashley Smith analyses Biden’s immigration proposals and executive orders, and finds small steps forwards lost to the rapid return to a reactionary status quo ante.
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How Boston beat the far right
A number of Boston socialists reflect on one of the most important confrontations with the far-right in the U.S. during the Trump years as a model of organizing and mass challenge to the racists and their enablers.
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Crossword politics
Camila Valle interviews puzzle constructor Natan Last about the sometime hidden, sometimes open politics of crosswords.
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Iraq’s October revolution
Nasrin summarizes an important new book that maps the recent uprisings in North Africa and West Asia.
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Amazon workers and the southern key?
Sumona Gupta provides an important introduction to the background behind the current efforts to unionize Amazon workers in Alabama.
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Where is UPS going?
Joe Allen calls attention to the ongoing restructuring at UPS, evidenced by the recent sale of UPS Freight, and why this sale and the recent history of UPS restructuring should be red flags for rank and file Teamsters and the union as a whole.
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Defund the police
Haley Pessin looks at the advances and setbacks of the defund movement and how the Left fits into these efforts
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Save our school
Paul Fleckenstein reports on the struggle to oppose the budget cuts and restructuring at the University of Vermont.
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Writings on the “putsch”
Aaron Amaral and Scott McLemee provide a digest, with links and excerpts, of some of the best of the recent commentary about the events at the U.S. capitol on January 6, 2021.