Debates
For a strategy of independence and mass struggle
Ashley Smith responds to Todd Chretien’s defense of Zohran Mamdani.
Mamdani’s fight is our fight
Todd Chretien argues that socialists need to find “a useful role inside the Mamdani experiment” instead of issuing warnings from outside.
Hiding our goals is no way to win
brian bean and Thomas Hummel respond to Ben Burgis’s recent Jacobin article, “The Point of Politics is to Convince People, Not Grandstand.”
Block, squander, disorganize?
Ashley Smith responds to Max Elbaum’s overheated polemic on the question of strategy for socialists in the 2024 elections.
Lenin, Luxemburg, and the revolutionary tradition
Helen Scott and Paul Le Blanc respond to John Marot, offering a clarification of their position on Rosa Luxemburg.
Luxemburg’s lessons and the roots of Stalinism
In a follow up to his article, Rosa Luxemburg and the democratic road to socialist revolution, John Marot responds to Helen Scott and Paul Le Blanc.
Luxemburg on the Russian Revolution
Helen Scott and Paul Le Blanc, editors of Volume 5 of Verso’s Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, reply to John Marot’s Tempest article based on the book.
Once More on Hamas
As part of a continuing exchange on October 7, the Palestinian resistance, and the posture of the Left towards Hamas, Dan La Botz and Stephen R. Shalom reply here to Sean Larson. La Botz and Shalom had previously submitted a response to an article by Jonah ben Avraham to which Larson, in…
The Left under Brandon Johnson
brian bean argues the need for independent organizing and struggle under Mayor Brandon Johnson in Chicago
On the Chicago race for mayor
Kirstin Roberts argues that given the stark political choice, the broad mobilization of left and movement forces in support of Brandon Johnson, and the groundwork laid over the last decade by union and social struggles in Chicago, the elections offer real opportunities for socialists committed to political independence.
Making sense of Chicago’s election
Joe Allen sets the Chicago mayoral election in historical context and argues that the choice on offer, however stark, also reflects the political limits of the strength of the Left and our (social and trade union) movements.
No arms to Ukraine?
Nate Moore explains why U.S. based socialists should not be opposing arms to Ukraine despite the inter-imperialist dynamics unleashed by the Russian invasion.
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