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.
30 years ago, the Chinese government began its massacre of hundreds of student and worker activists at Tiananmen Square. The government wants to erase this history from memory, because they fear students and workers again taking to China’s streets.
Graduate workers at the University of Chicago are on strike this week. They’re demanding union recognition from an administration that is relying on a Trump-appointed labor board’s hostility to workers to deny graduate workers’ organizing rights.
Jeremy Corbyn has snubbed Donald Trump’s visit to London, earning him predictable criticism from the British media. Who cares? Corbyn is on the right side of history.
Yet again in West Virginia, Republicans are seeking to privatize schools and stop teachers strikes. A West Virginia teacher explains how educators are yet again mobilizing to stop it — and why “there’s nothing to compromise on.”
What the world remembers about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests were the students. But above all, it was a mass workers’ uprising for socialist democracy.
Bolsonaro doesn’t need an open military dictatorship to crush his opponents. As the “Colombian model” demonstrates, he can lean on violent paramilitaries to do the dirty work for him.
British suffragette and socialist Sylvia Pankhurst didn’t just want to talk to “society ladies” about the right to vote. She wanted the women’s movement to be part of a broader emancipatory project.
How a 1975 blockbuster satirized the spread of a typical high-rise.
To solve the housing crisis, we may have to go back to the future.
Margaret Thatcher described Right to Buy as ‘one of the most important revolutions of the century.’ She was right. And we’re still living with the consequences.
Millions have already faced the dark side of the American Dream. Is there a way to stabilize and democratize homeownership?
It’s really not complicated. Homeless people need homes. So we should give them homes.
Mutual aid cooperatives in Latin America give us a glimpse of what democratic social housing could look like.
There’s no use in asking why vacant housing and homelessness exist despite the presence of the super-wealthy. These issues exist directly because of them.
Sweden’s social democrats managed to solve a housing crisis and build a million homes in less than a decade. Why, then, is the Miljonprogrammet maligned today?
The size of the housing crisis can be daunting, but with a committed political movement and a little bit of state power, it can be confronted.
The New Left and the “back-to-the-land” movement.
This list won’t make your city any kinder, but it might help you crack its code.
