Cristina Groeger is a history professor at Lake Forest College and a member of the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America.
Chaos reigns…fascist stooge finds his balcony…the resistible rise of Donald Trump…bomb crater America finds its Dauphin…Hillary Clinton: 10.0 Richter scale failure….the pinko revolt begins….digging ourselves out of the collapsed gold mine….
Under Trump, labor must abandon its insider approach and concentrate on the power of the rank and file.
The dismantling of autoworker gains was a class project, not the inevitable result of globalization.
A former Gawker writer and a union organizer on online worker unions, life under Univision, and labor’s new opportunities.
The success of minimum-wage ballot initiatives shows the first steps for building a left platform under Trump.
The work of Native American activist Archie Phinney shows how Marxism can help advance indigenous struggle.
The weak spots in Trump’s victory show that the future still lies with Bernie’s democratic-socialist coalition.
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election, Muslims don’t need allies. We need comrades.
Five years after its formation and demise, Occupy is mostly a study in what to avoid for the anti-Trump movement.
Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy would have been bad. Donald Trump’s will be a bloody disaster.
Donald Trump’s Supreme Court will fight social progress at every turn. But his reactionary judiciary can’t just be resisted in the courts.
Better education won’t fix inequalities rooted in capitalism.
The Democrats’ losses last week all stem from the same cause: the hollowing out of middle- and working-class America.
The retail sector has been notoriously tricky to unionize, but there is a way forward.
Barack Obama spent eight years expanding the national security state. Now it belongs to Donald Trump.
Brazil’s massive student occupations are occurring against a backdrop of crumbling left parties and a vicious austerity government.
In Morocco, where COP22 talks began this week, and around the world, climate change is inherently tied to the history of colonialism.
There is no uniquely Trumpian health care agenda. The danger is the enactment of the GOP’s reactionary proposals.
The Democratic Party’s abandonment of the working class cleared the space for Trump.
Turkish president Erdoğan is wielding the state to attack anyone who won’t capitulate to his authoritarian rule.