Tag: U.S. politics
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Zionists fear the picket
Joel Reinstein unpacks Liza Featherstone’s recent defense of DSA’s ostensible solidarity with Palestine, and finds logical fallacies and factual mistakes.
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Next steps to regain abortion rights
Even though popular support for abortion rights stands at more than two-thirds, the Supreme Court seems dead set on overturning Roe v. Wade. Haley Pessin and Natalia Tylim look at why this majority hasn’t ruled in official politics and the kind of organizing it will take to turn things around.
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The U.S. left at a strategic impasse
Charlie Post and Ashley Smith argue for a new orientation for the U.S. Left.
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Mobilize on December 1 for abortion rights
Linda Loew replies to Tempest coverage of recent abortion justice organizing and mobilizing and calls attention to an important day of action on December 1, including information for local mobilizations.
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Five crises of capitalism
A lightly edited version of a 15-minute talk by Ashley Smith for the Tempest convention on international perspectives.
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Welcome to the quagmire
Kim Moody assesses the recent U.S. election results and highlights the strategic cul-de-sac facing those sections of the Left currently oriented on the Democratic Party, while pointing to “strike-tober” and the possibilities of a resurgent labor movement, as an alternative strategic focus.
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Striketober
Joe Allen looks at the realities of the recent strike waves, including a number of “no” votes on contract ratification, and the role and meaning of worker solidarity for socialists.
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Rust Belt socialism?
Thomas Hummel explores the politics of the upcoming Buffalo mayoral election and the potential socialist mayor, India Walton.
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Takeaways from the NYC-DSA convention
Hakan Yilmaz reports on the 2021 Convention for the NYC Chapter of Democratic Socialists of America.