The Socialist Pioneers of Birth Control
When birth control was still taboo, early socialists fought to make it accessible to working-class women. Because they knew women’s emancipation is at the heart of the struggle for a better world.
19576 Articles by: Abigail Torre
Abigail Torre grew up in Chile and now lives in Berkeley, California where she is cochair of the East Bay chapter of Democratic Socialists of America.
Britain’s Troubles, Ireland’s Pain
Fifty years ago, British troops were deployed on Northern Irish streets in the name of keeping the peace. But their actions simply worsened the crisis — fueling a conflict that still casts a shadow today.
The Arab Spring Lives on in Algeria
Algeria is in the throes of a revolutionary moment. But having overthrown dictator Abdelaziz Bouteflika last spring, the movement must now find a way to return the class issue to the center of politics or risk watching the revolutionary moment slip away.
Walling Off the Ivory Tower
The United States is home to some of the world’s leading universities, research institutes, and academic conferences. But non-US researchers are increasingly excluded from the centers of scholarly exchange — all because they can’t get a visa.
Here’s How Boris Johnson Can Be Defeated
With clear and inclusive class politics, the Left can unite the victims of Tory austerity and beat Boris Johnson at the polls.
“We Want to Take Sudan From This Dark Corner to a Bright Future.”
In only a few months, the Sudanese revolution ended Omar al-Bashir’s authoritarian rule and won an unprecedented transition to a civilian government. We spoke to one of the revolution’s many women leaders about the mass civil disobedience that defeated the regime.
We Need to Get the US Army Out of High Schools
A society that teaches violence is a violent society. We need to get the JROTC out of our schools.
The New Deal State and Segregation
The riddle of the New Deal’s attitude toward segregation can only be unraveled by examining the fundamental nature of the capitalist state.
The World That Made the El Paso Mass Shooter
The wealthy white suburbs that the El Paso shooter called home have long been a hotbed for xenophobia and racism. He was an extreme but predictable expression of homegrown, mainstream Texas nativism.
The Colombian Government Against the Campesinos
The Colombian government promised to invest in rural areas as part of the country’s peace process. But the elite-friendly projects it’s pushing are undermining the livelihoods of local residents — and threatening the peace process itself.
When the FBI Targeted the Poor People’s Campaign
An FBI scholar argues that recently unearthed surveillance documents aren’t proof of anything about Martin Luther King. They do, however, show how the bureau tried to destroy the Poor People’s Movement.
Why the Labor Movement Needs the Left
A longtime union organizer explains why socialists have a critical role to play in building the labor movement. We should pursue three tasks in unions: encouraging rank-and-file militancy, building an independent political infrastructure, and developing workers’ consciousness.
Never Forget the Rana Plaza Massacre
Six years after the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse killed over a thousand people, Bangladeshi workers are striking for better wages and safer conditions.
Bring a Book
Socialism’s detractors love to natter on about long lines, but under capitalism, we wait around endlessly.
Women at the Heart of the Revolution
Alexandra Kollontai and her comrades founded the Zhenotdel in 1918 in order to ensure women’s full participation in Soviet society. Its efforts to liberate women in Muslim Central Asia showed the revolution’s emancipatory promise — and the dangers of imposing change without the active support of the oppressed.
DSA Is Leading the Charge
Socialism is moving from the margins to the center of American politics. After the Democratic Socialists of America’s convention in Atlanta last weekend, DSA is better positioned than ever to lead the socialist charge.
Socialize Lab Meat
Meat is killing the planet, but Americans are unlikely to give it up. Lab meat could be our best hope of winning tens of millions of American meat eaters over to a Green New Deal — if that lab meat can be socialized.
How the US Created Violent Chaos in Honduras
The US-backed coup in Honduras ten years ago spawned a maelstrom of violence that terrorized ordinary Hondurans and forced caravans of migrants to flee the country. It was just another instance of US imperialism wreaking havoc on the world.
Why the Bronx Burned
There’s a popular narrative that blames the blight and decline of the South Bronx in the 1970s on the working-class people who lived there. But a new film shows that it was landlords and the state who were responsible for the famous fires that ravaged the Bronx.
Never Trust the FBI
In the aftermath of the El Paso shooting, some are pushing to expand the FBI’s powers. That’s a huge mistake: a domestic terrorism law would almost certainly be used to silence left-wing dissent.