Jumaane Williams is the Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidate for New York lieutenant governor. In an interview, he explains his broad progressive platform — and states “I’m a democratic socialist.”
Only a left-wing revival can save Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) from political extinction. But leaders like Andrea Nahles and Olaf Scholz are not up to the task.
The Sioux Falls, South Dakota AFL-CIO recently banned white supremacists from union leadership. President Kooper Caraway says that’s because labor has a duty to fight the far right.
The definitive essay on Lenin’s classic pamphlet.
How anti-fascist speech laws end up targeting the Left.
The newspaper continues to spread a lie about Bernie Sanders’s Medicare-for-All plan — despite its own fact checker admitting it’s wrong.
Stephen Miller’s heinous proposal draws on a long, bipartisan history of weaponizing welfare against immigrants.
Argentina’s anti-abortion forces won this battle. But the feminist “green wave” will have the war.
Cynthia Nixon has come out in support of right-to-strike laws for public sector workers in New York. Backing such laws nationally should be a litmus test for all political candidates.
Striking taxi drivers in Spain are demanding state action against Uber. They show that even in the digital economy, strikes are our most potent weapon.
Mainstream fact-checkers are still trying to discredit Bernie Sanders’s Medicare-for-All plan. But there’s no way around it: single-payer is entirely realistic.
Drug companies want you to think they’re providing glimmers of hope to terminally ill patients. Don’t believe them.
Arsène Tchakarian was the last surviving member of a Communist military unit in the French Resistance. Mainly Jews and immigrants, they risked everything to fight the Nazi occupation.
The North Carolina teachers strike was the result of years of grassroots organizing. And they’re not done yet.
It’s election day for Kaniela Ing in Hawai’i today. His campaign shows that socialism has both deep history and future potential on the islands.
Socialists have a key role to play in building the labor movement — if they can avoid the pitfalls of sectarianism and union bureaucracy.
Last month Pablo Casado was elected leader of Spain’s People’s Party. His project: to use Reaganomics, flag-waving nationalism, and a war on feminism to reinvigorate the Right.
Chicago’s horrifying gun violence last weekend isn’t the result of a “spiritual deficit,” as Mayor Rahm Emanuel argues. It’s the result of decades of poverty and austerity.
The labor movement is the critical institution for the Left. Socialists should root themselves in it — not as supporters from afar or paid staff, but as rank-and-file workers.
A new book proves that the Indonesian army was responsible for the systematic slaughter of leftists in the 1965–66 genocide — and that orders came directly from the top.