Taking Back Left Parties From the Brahmins
Across Western countries, the decline in class-based voting isn’t inevitable: it results from political choices.
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Corbyn Versus the Third Way
Jeremy Corbyn is attempting to transform a Labour Party that represents labor in name only.
Revolutionary Socialists in the Democratic-Socialist Moment
Right now, democratic socialism is on the rise in American society. Revolutionary socialists who have kept the torch of socialism burning during the lean years will now have to merge with democratic-socialist demands of the current moment.
Out of Time
Last year’s prestige cinema focused on working-class characters too consumed to reflect on their own conditions.
The Specter of Capital
How the housing crash got us believing in ghosts again.
Beyond November
Thoughts on politics, social movements, and the 2012 elections.
Happy May Day! Workers of the World Are Uniting
Here’s something to celebrate this May Day: History may well look back at our era as the moment the working class finally got back on its feet.
Ian Penman’s Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors Is a Love Letter to Postwar Counterculture
The music critic Ian Penman made his name during the heady days of anti-Thatcher counterculture. In Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors, he finds his match in the frenzied life and work of postwar Germany’s most iconoclastic director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
How Class Should Be Central
A strategic focus on uniting the working class doesn’t mean marginalizing the struggle against racism and sexism.
The Democrats Actively Expedited Class Dealignment
In the 1990s, Democrats adopted a neoliberal program to suit the needs of capital, driving many workers out. The party then adopted a political strategy meant to replace working-class voters with professionals — with disastrous consequences.
The UAW’s 2028 National Strike Should Center Medicare for All
United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain has called on unions to come together for a national strike in 2028. This is a radical idea — and elevating Medicare for All as a central demand would give workers across sectors a reason to join in.
Building a Mass Socialist Party
The response to Bernie showed that a socialist party in the United States is possible. But there is no shortcut to building power.
An Empire of Our Lives
How has the rise of finance changed class relationships?
Who Put Trump in the White House?
The Democratic Party has been collapsing for years, but no one noticed before Trump came along.
A Shit Job for One Is a Shit Job for All
Last week’s passage of a bill in the California state legislature ending the rampant misclassification of workers as independent contractors was a huge win. The bill was animated by the spirit of unions fighting for the entire working class — the exact principle that should animate all unions.
The Demand for Student Debt Cancellation Should Be Paired With Tuition-Free Public College
The demand to cancel student debt is vital, but it would be politically dangerous to let it get detached from a broader left vision for higher education. We should unite it with another key working class demand: tuition-free public college and trade school.
Rebuilding the Working-Class Base One Door at a Time
Reinvigorating class-based politics in the US depends on more than inspiring candidates like Bernie Sanders: it requires durable working-class political organization. Here’s what one group learned about organizing working people around bread-and-butter issues.
Mike Gold, the Writer Who Believed Workers Could Speak for Themselves
Cold War hysteria meant that Communist writer Mike Gold has been universally denounced in life and death. But Gold’s pioneering work created a working-class literature written for, by, and about working-class people — and it should be celebrated today.
The Socialist Case for Reparations
Class politics and reparations aren't at odds — they're part of the same struggle.