The Antifascism of Fools
Supporting centrist forces is the wrong way to keep the Right out of power.
Supporting centrist forces is the wrong way to keep the Right out of power.
Why socialists should ignore presidential politics.
Whatever Spielberg says — there's no comparing an empty-suit like Obama to a radical like Lincoln.
Hillary Clinton's finance reforms wouldn't rein in Wall Street. Finance and global capitalism are inseparable.
Michael Harrington was wrong about a lot of things, but not quite in the way Joe Allen describes.

The revolutionary thought of Rosa Luxemburg continues to inform and inspire anticapitalist movements today.
Howie Hawkins’ campaign for governor is part of a renewed vision of electoral activism on the Left.
The United States Postal Service's manufactured fiscal crisis need not lead to the end of the public postal system.

Socialists have played a key role in the fight for single payer in California. Their campaign has lessons for organizers everywhere.
Much of the working class is being forced out into suburbia. We must adapt our organizing strategies to keep up.

Last night, Jordan Peterson spouted nonsense about Marxism. And Slavoj Žižek reminded us of how deep into liberal pessimism he's fallen.

The UAW's defeat at a Mississippi Nissan factory will set back organizing the South for a long time.
Mass movements outside the Labour Party brought Jeremy Corbyn to power within it. What will it now take to transform British society?
After its financial crisis, Iceland put bankers in jail. But it didn't rein in capital.
The rich have too much. Hiking the estate tax would be a powerful tool in a broader anti-inequality campaign.
Canadian voters could oust Stephen Harper in today's election. But it's time to build a genuine left alternative to austerity.
Two days before the Canadian election, Stephen Harper's Conservatives seem on the verge of losing power.
The New York gubernatorial race has much to tell us about the future of working-class politics in the US.

The twentieth century left socialists plenty of lessons. Will we heed them?