Category: Article
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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.
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Beyond anti-anti-Communism
David Camfield writes that on the 80th anniversary of Leon Trotsky’s assassination, even as we move further from the conditions that defined the Trotskyist movement of last century, a critical appreciation of his politics remains necessary for the emerging socialist Left.
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COVID-19 and the new normal
The authors look at how the 1% has responded to the pandemic and argues that socialists must help shape the fight for our lives.
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At a crossroads
Andy Sernatinger reviews the recent history of the refounded DSA, the strategic and organizational questions which defined the last few years, and the emerging political question in the COVID moment.