Summoning the Future
The story of the British National Health Service, one of the twentieth century’s great working-class achievements.
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Our Annual Physical
Everything’s fine but our wallet.
The Unions and the Movement
Through organizing around Medicare for All, unions can not only save millions of Americans, they can save themselves.
What’s Left in Puerto Rico?
Progressive forces in Puerto Rico must link social justice to national determination if they want to lead the island out of precarity.
The Socialist Case for Gun Control
We have a moral obligation to challenge a gun lobby callously destroying the lives of ordinary people.
The Gross Coalition
As Italians get ready to go to the polls this weekend, the center-left is preparing to do a deal with Silvio Berlusconi.
Labor and the Long Seventies
In the tumultuous 1970s, women and people of color streamed into unions, strikes swept the country — and employers launched a fierce counter-attack.
You Were Born in the Wrong Country
The US does a terrible job of keeping its children out of poverty — especially compared to other industrialized nations.
What’s Happening in Catalonia?
With leading separatist figures in prison or exile, and December’s elections producing a stalemate, what next for Catalonia’s independence movement?
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
Class struggle and running for office often pull in opposite directions. But we can’t build a socialist politics without navigating those waters.
What Strategy for the US Left?
The capitalist state’s dependence on profitability and its institutional structure make the strategy of successive, partial breaks through “non-reformist reforms” unrealistic.