The Anti-Fascist Boomerang
How anti-fascist speech laws end up targeting the Left.
19603 Articles by: Opal Lee
Opal Lee is a writer.
The Washington Post Keeps Publishing False Claims About Medicare for All
The newspaper continues to spread a lie about Bernie Sanders’s Medicare-for-All plan — despite its own fact checker admitting it’s wrong.
The Great Welfare Wall
Stephen Miller’s heinous proposal draws on a long, bipartisan history of weaponizing welfare against immigrants.
The Argentine Right’s Pyrrhic Victory
Argentina’s anti-abortion forces won this battle. But the feminist “green wave” will have the war.
Public Sector Workers Should Have the Right to Strike
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 for the Future
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.
Sorry, Bernie Is Right
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.
“Right to Try” Is a Cruel Farce
Drug companies want you to think they’re providing glimmers of hope to terminally ill patients. Don’t believe them.
Arsène Tchakarian (1916–2018)
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.
Getting the Common Goods
The North Carolina teachers strike was the result of years of grassroots organizing. And they’re not done yet.
The Kuleana of Socialism in Hawai‘i
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.
Reflections on the Rank and File Strategy
Socialists have a key role to play in building the labor movement — if they can avoid the pitfalls of sectarianism and union bureaucracy.
Spain’s Right-Wing Populist
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.
What’s the Matter With Chicago?
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 Rank and File Strategy
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 Crime of Anticommunism
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.
Joe Biden, Mass Incarceration Zealot
For years, Joe Biden was determined to make Democrats the tough-on-crime party. The 1994 Crime Bill and its expansion of mass incarceration was his crowning achievement.
The SPD Should Return to Its Anticolonial Roots
Germany’s Social Democrats now have a chance to make amends for the German empire’s genocidal policies in Africa. In doing so, they’d be returning to the party’s anti-imperialist roots.
Democrats and Their Promises
Of course Democratic candidates will claim to support progressive policies. Don’t assume they’re telling the truth.
The Continuity of Khan
Corruption and military might have long dominated Pakistani politics. And Imran Khan’s reform-minded rhetoric is unlikely to change that.