In Australia, the Far Right Is Pushing COVID-19 Conspiracies
Last weekend, thousands of anti-vaxxers and COVID denialists marched across Australia to protest pandemic restrictions. A core of far-right activists were at the center of the action.
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El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele Is Yet Again Ramping Up His Authoritarian Violence
Nayib Bukele has overseen multiple violent crackdowns on basic civil liberties across El Salvador during his time as president. With his recent declaration of martial law against gangs, it’s only getting worse.
Podemos: A “Party-Movement” in Government
Upon its creation in 2014, Podemos insisted it was nothing like the political parties that had long dominated Spain. Today, Pablo Iglesias’s party looks like an ever-more institutionalized force — yet one whose activists continue to see themselves as belonging to a “social movement” from below.
Losing West Virginia
Few states better illustrate the contradictions and failures of the Democratic Party than West Virginia.
Fanfare Without the Fans
The luxury suites in modern stadiums are reminders that capitalist society values elite consumption over public enjoyment.
Building a Corbyn Majority
The British left can't look to Jeremy Corbyn to carry them to victory by himself.
We’re Having a Different Conversation Than Them
Bernie Sanders didn’t attend Netroots Nation last weekend. That’s because he knows who the real audience for his democratic-socialist politics is (working people, not the Daily Kos crowd).
“We Are a Marxist Party That Believes in a Socialist Future”
In Belgium, a party of Marxist-Leninist background is mounting a surprising challenge to the mainstream.
Darializa Avila Chevalier on Running for Congress in Zohran’s NYC
Young socialist organizers are entering electoral politics out of obligation, not ambition. Darializa Avila Chevalier, running for Congress in New York’s 13th District, explains why.
The Zone Defense
What we need isn’t exclusionary zoning, inclusionary zoning, upzoning, downzoning, a zoning freeze, or no zoning at all. We need an anticapitalist planning movement.
Welfare for Everyone
Liberal talking points on race and the welfare state reflect deeply conservative ideas. The Left should demand welfare for all.
Obama’s Failures Birthed Trumpism
Many disasters followed the 2008 financial crisis. But possibly the worst was the mass popular disillusionment that resulted from Barack Obama’s failure to help the victims and punish the wrongdoers — a failure that led to Donald Trump.
John Sweeney Was Our Era’s Most Influential Labor Leader
The late AFL-CIO leader John Sweeney was an admirable figure who had a vision for reinvigorated US labor unions. But he only tried to reform a union movement that needed a more fundamental refoundation.
On the Picket Line at Hunts Point
We should all cheer on strikes like the recently ended Hunts Point Teamsters walk off in the Bronx. But there’s no substitute for socialists actually showing up on the picket lines to provide tangible material support and engage with striking workers.
May Day, Bloody May Day
On Berlin’s May Day 1929, the latent hostility between Social Democrats and Communists finally spilled over into bloodshed. A day meant to demonstrate workers’ unity instead showed tragic divisions in the face of rising Nazism.
Criminalizing Anti-Austerity in Ireland
Irish activists won major concessions against water privatization. Now, the state is looking to imprison them.
Financialization Was a Response to Capitalism’s Failings
Popular critiques of financial deregulation often blame the City of London’s excessive political influence. But financialization wasn’t imposed on capitalism by elite plotting — it was a political response to its inherent crisis tendencies.
A Grift From God
The prosperity gospel, in both religious and secular form, is a giant con.
Turkey’s Rejuvenated Left
Turkey goes to the polls today for parliamentary elections. How has the struggle in Kobanê shaped the country's politics?
France’s Presidential Election Is a One-Sided Culture War
Emmanuel Macron has often warned that France shouldn’t imitate US-style culture wars. But ahead of April’s election, the liberal president and his far-right challengers are all obsessing about what they call an “Islamo-leftist” threat to French national identity.