Chris Maisano is a Jacobin contributing editor and a member of Democratic Socialists of America.
Research shows that the organized working class, and industrial workers in particular, have been the driving force for democracy around the world. The question is whether the erosion of the industrial working class will weaken our prospects for democratic politics.
The political revolution needs mass protest mobilization. But to be completed, it will also require a radical reconstruction of the United States’ undemocratic political institutions.
After decades of decline, left parties are in the midst of a renaissance. But without a commitment to social roots in the working class, twenty-first century “digital parties” could decline just as their predecessors did.
Kim Moody reflects on his time in the New Left, turning to the working class, and opportunities for socialists in the labor movement today.
The Supreme Court Janus decision is a devastating defeat for labor. Public-sector unions now have two choices: continued decline, or a reversion to the kind of militant collective action of the movement’s early years.
A new book offers a flawed road map for rebuilding the Left.
The history of the 1970s New York City fiscal crisis shows how power under capitalism is ultimately located outside electoral politics — and must be defeated at its source.
Today, there's a real chance Unidos Podemos will become the most important force in Spanish politics. What do they stand for?
No, socialism isn't just more government — it's about democratic ownership and control.
A case before the Supreme Court threatens to devastate public-sector unions. How did it come to this?
What's behind the New Democratic Party's surprise win in Alberta?
Only rank-and-file workers can build a better labor movement.
Labor-management partnerships will not revive the union movement.
Social impact bonds offer private interests yet another opportunity to enrich themselves at public expense.
The problems of our time will be solved by our collective capacity to change the world, not self-therapy.
Our impulse should not be to reject social democracy's legacy, but to build on and complete its promise.
Most dismiss social democracy as the fading echo of a bygone age — Lane Kenworthy disagrees.
The popular imagination gets Machiavelli all wrong — he was a patron saint of class struggle.
In the popular imagination, opposition to the Vietnam War was driven largely by the privileged, while supposedly reactionary blue-collar workers supported the war effort. That memory is wrong.
The class war against workers demands a class response.