Essential Uprising
A poem
by Demetrius NobleIn “Essential Uprising,” Demetrius Noble urges workers to organize to demand an end to alienation and the meeting of basic human needs.
North Carolina’s factory boom
New openings to build workers’ power
by David LeonNational policy is spurring new investment in domestic factories, and North Carolina is one center of the boom. David Leon argues that the growth in factory jobs can enable new organizing and workers’ struggle—and that socialists have a key role to play.
Council power in the Iranian labor movement
by Nasrin and Sam Salour
Nasrin and Sam Salour discuss how the memory of workers’ councils during the revolution of 1979 in Iran has shaped a new wave of class struggles in that country the last few years.
What is socialism from below?
by Sean Larson
Sean Larson outlines different conceptions of socialism and asserts that only the self-emancipation of the working class can lead to the world we want.