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.
Today in Bulletin: A heartwarming tale about Nazis, Republicans, and election laws … Plus: Completing Marx’s complete works … America will lose, China will win … And: Socialism or barbarism, millennials edition.
Despite its free speech posturing, the Right has been silent about the persecution of J20 protesters — one of the most egregious government crackdowns in years.
In an extensive interview, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez discusses the nuts and bolts of her recent victory, why centrist Democrats are vulnerable to left-wing challengers, voter disenfranchisement, the political status of Puerto Rico, and much more.
Groomed by the “respectable” right, Kavanaugh will grease the skids for the Trump agenda.
In the wake of Janus, it’s tempting for some trade unionists to give up on representing all workers in a given workplace. This is exactly what the boss wants.
Today in Bulletin: Could globalization end with a whimper? … Christian Democracy in the USA … China’s Marxist millennials … and more.
With far-right forces on the rise across Europe, Ada Colau’s progressive administration in Barcelona shows how local government can be a base of resistance.
Abstinence-only ideology in twelve-step treatment programs is making it harder for addicts to stay clean.
Creeping marketization has created perverse incentives for researchers — threatening the wholesale corruption of science itself.
Radical candidates. “Crazy” platforms. Shocking upsets. The history of US conservatism holds lessons for the Left about how the impossible can become the inevitable.
America’s schools are more segregated than ever. We can integrate them — but only by forcing the state to expand universal public institutions and redistribute wealth.
Kim Moody reflects on his time in the New Left, turning to the working class, and opportunities for socialists in the labor movement today.
It’s often a sign of progress when people change their minds. But it can also be unsettling, even eerie.
Violence, corruption, inequality — AMLO has the chance to attack all three and transform Mexico for the better.
Socialist New York State Senate candidate Julia Salazar on electoral politics, the Democratic Party, and why strikes matter.
Recent elections in Colombia saw the Right’s Iván Duque win the presidency. But the Colombian left had its most impressive turnout in history.
The advent of capitalism didn’t just regiment our working lives. It changed the very meaning of free time.
Liberal pundits are twisting themselves into pretzels trying to explain away Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory.
It took Andrés Manuel López Obrador twelve years to become president-elect of Mexico. Now comes the hard part.
The transactional political class was no match for the passion and moral clarity of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the broader socialist movement.