The Latino Question: Politics, Laboring Classes and the Next Left By Armando Ibarra, Alfredo Carlos, and Rodolfo D. Torres Foreword by Christine Neumann-Ortiz London: Pluto Press/Univ. of Chicago, distr., 2018, 256 pages, $27 paperback.
ASSAYING THE POLITICAL and social terrain facing Latinx (...)
BERNIE SANDERS’ CAMPAIGN of four years ago put socialism on the U.S. political agenda for the first time in generations. He’s on the trail again, explaining what a “democratic socialist” vision means, beginning with building mass movements and supporting unions and union organizing.
Bernie (...)
Earlier this month, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) held its 2019 National Convention. I wrote a piece for Jacobin giving an overview of the major decisions that came out of the convention, but there’s a larger conversation to be had about the experience at the convention in Atlanta. (...)
Some 1,056 delegates to the Democratic Socialist of America convention, representing some 55,000 DSA members, met in Atlanta over the weekend and voted to adopt a series of resolution that will continue to build a strong national organization capable of carrying out ambitious campaigns in labor (...)
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) endorsed Bernie Sanders’ campaign for the Democratic Party nomination for US President. But what if he doesn’t win the primary?
At the moment, Democratic Socialists of America is divided over what an effective socialist electoral strategy should look like. The “realignment” to turn the Democratic Party into a social-democratic party reflected DSA’s lack of a strategy.
The Trump administration gets more malicious, harmful, and absurd every day. So why aren’t many of us outside protesting?
Remember 2017? Those were the days. In Trump’s first year, we marched and demonstrated constantly, for women’s rights, for immigrants, for science, for the planet, and for the (...)
In the U.S., the failures of capitalism are being refracted in the race for the White House, just as they were in 2016. On one side, President Trump is rallying his predominantly middle-class voters to re-elect him based on his program of economic nationalism and bigotry that has wreaked havoc (...)
QUESTION: What is historical materialism? ANSWER: A defeat we’re transforming into a luminous victory. Victor Serge, April 17, 1941 (in Notebooks 1936-1947, p. 72)
What happened to the International Socialist Organization (ISO) is that it self-destructed. The outgoing leadership of the (...)
DSA members in the state view socialism as a vehicle for changing their own immediate circumstances—and they want to build a movement that transcends electoral politics.
DES MOINES—Caroline Schoonover has two immediate goals. One of them is to systematically dismantle capitalism. The other is to (...)
This is an expanded and updated version of a document written by Pranav Jani during the period leading up to the ISO’s 2019 national convention in February. Along with a general call for more democracy and openness in the ISO amid the labor upsurge and growing socialist movement, people of color (...)
Chicago socialists did very well in recent municipal elections, winning as many as six socialist city council members. The city’s left has a historic opportunity to push back years of gentrification, police brutality, and austerity. It will also face challenges from the new mayor Lori (...)
SocialistWorker.org reports on the results of an organization-wide online poll to determine what’s next in the wake of the ISO’s organizational crisis.
MEMBERS AND recent ex-members of the International Socialist Organization (ISO) have decided to dissolve the organization and end publication of (...)
On Friday, March 29, I joined 70% of 477 ISO members who voted to develop a process to dissolve the organization or do so immediately. This represents about two-thirds of the overall membership (taking into account a bruising last few months), including dozens who had very recently resigned but (...)
The following are very preliminary notes regarding the crisis in our former group, the International Socialist Organization. This short document does not claim infallibility. Nor does it examine in detail the specific events that led to this immediate crisis. That task is being taken up (...)
The International Socialist Organization’s Steering Committee sent this letter to members about a deep crisis in the ISO. We are sharing it publicly here on Socialist Worker. We have edited it slightly to be published on a public website and have added updated information.
March 15, 2019
THREE (...)
Five decades ago, a brilliant young African-American professor of philosophy and Communist, Angela Davis was the United States’ most prominent political prisoner, on trial for her life in a notorious frameup murder trial as a supporter of the Black Panther Party. She won that case with brilliant (...)
It has been two years since the explosive surge of the Democratic Socialists of America, now the largest socialist organization in the United States and the largest since the 1940s. And DSA has had some remarkable successes. Today as the country turns its attention to the presidential election (...)
Yesterday democratic socialists fought and won inspiring election campaigns across the country, representing the rebirth of the American socialist movement after generations in retreat. Most significantly, DSA members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York and Rashida Tlaib in Michigan were (...)
The Democratic Party loomed large over the annual Green Party conference last month, but all eyes were on November, when Green leaders say they’ll field at least 224 candidates.
SALT LAKE CITY — The progressive activists who gathered in Utah two weeks ago to strategize for the midterm elections (...)
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