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I agree with most of key points in Charlie Post and Ashley Smith’s important New Politics article, “Facing Reality: The Socialist Left, the Sanders Campaign and Our Future.” In the wake of Sanders’ withdrawal from the race, I agree that the left (including DSA) “needs to put most of its energy into (...)
We live what is perhaps the greatest crisis in American history, an absolutely unprecedented event: a catastrophe. And it may only have just begun.
We in America live in what resembles some medieval fairy tale. An evil and maniacal king rules the plague stricken land. The wicked lords in the (...)
Since Bernie Sanders suspended his presidential campaign, there has been a steady stream of articles assessing it, writes Joanna Misnik. They range from more mainstream progressive political analysis citing his inability to compromise and soften his message, problems within the staff, etc. to (...)
A little over a month ago, many on the new socialist left expected Bernie Sanders to win the Democratic Party nomination, defeat Donald Trump in the general election, and enact a program of social democratic reform as President of the United States.
These expectations hit the shoals of (...)
Bernie Sanders has endorsed Joe Biden, 17 million people have lost their jobs, tens of thousands more are certain to perish in the coronavirus pandemic, and no one knows if and when it will be possible to “open” the economy this summer. And even is some “slow motion” economy is possible, placing (...)
From the 2008 global financial collapse to the natural disasters caused by climate change that rocked Northern California, New Orleans, New York, and Puerto Rico, capitalism is causing devastating human crises. During each of these crises, it has been poor, working-class, and already (...)
Red Wedge (RW) was started in 2012 by a group of ISO (International Socialist Organization - US) comrades around Alexander Billet, Brit Schulte, Stella Becerril, and others. From the beginning there was a commitment to, tension and dialectic between RW’s desire to play a modest role helping develop the actual production of socialist, left-wing, and working-class art, and its role reckoning on the socialist theory of art.
In terms of the latter goal, during the Socialism 2012 (...)
Trump’s assassination of Iranian General Oassim Suleimani on Iraqi soil is an escalation of his desire to destroy the Iranian regime. Since he came to office Trump has plotted to pull the U.S. government out of the nuclear agreement signed by several European countries and Iran. Following that (...)
President Donald Trump has virtually declared war on Iran with the assassination of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force, in an airstrike near Baghdad International Airport.
The assassination of Suleimani will very likely lead to war, though it is unclear how such a war (...)
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) emphatically opposes a U.S. war with Iran. In light of the U.S.’s act of war against Iran, putting the two nations close to the brink of war, DSA calls on all members and chapters to mobilize against yet another U.S. war in the Middle East.
On January 2, (...)
We in DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America, will have to be able to understand and explain this: Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party won the British general election by a landslide, defeating Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn largely because they broke the “Red Wall” of working class votes in (...)
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 (...)
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