A Green New Deal for Decarceration
To save the planet, a Green New Deal has to transform our entire society. Part of that transformation must include the deconstruction of our system of mass incarceration.
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This Christmas, Let’s Rekindle Our Hope for a Better World
There’s plenty of reason for despair these days. But this Christmas, we can look to radical Christians past and present like Nina Turner and Eugene V. Debs to rekindle our hope for a better world — and rededicate ourselves to building it.
Don’t Take the Boss’s Bait
In the wake of Janus, it's tempting for some trade unionists to give up on representing all workers in a given workplace. This is exactly what the boss wants.
Only an Organized Workers’ Movement Can Force a Rational Response to Inflation
To address the cost-of-living crisis, we need to expand production and rein in corporate profits. Only Congress and the White House have the tools for the job — but they won’t use them unless labor organizes to force their hands.
Building Outside the Democratic Party
The Green Party campaign against Andrew Cuomo must become the launching pad for an independent political movement.
De Blasio’s Doomed Housing Plan
By embracing inclusionary zoning, Mayor de Blasio gets to put forth a big, bold plan for reducing inequalities without challenging capitalists.
Ireland’s Red Troubadour
Luke Kelly was Ireland’s best-known folk singer — he was also a lifelong socialist.
Salvador Allende Was Overthrown Because His Government Showed Chile Could Be Transformed
This weekend marks the 48th anniversary of the US-backed coup against Chilean socialist president Salvador Allende. That coup’s history is important, but we can’t forget that Allende’s government also achieved incredible things while in power.
The Australian Left Must Fight for a Strategy That Will Eliminate COVID-19
The highly infectious Delta variant is spreading through Australia. Center-left politicians have wrongly joined the Right in opposing lockdowns and border closures on spurious grounds. The Left should instead fight to eliminate COVID.
How Tenant Organizers in New York’s Hudson Valley Won a Historic Rent Reduction
On November 9, tenants in Kingston, New York, won a 15 percent rent reduction for over 1,200 apartments — the first rent reduction in the state’s history. We spoke with a leading organizer of the grassroots campaign to bring rents down.
Building Union Democracy Across the US-Mexico Border
The relationship between American and Mexican trade unions has been characterized both by US labor officials carrying water for US imperialism in Mexico and by militant, democratic cross-border unionism.
For Father Luis Olivares, Christianity Was a Radical Doctrine
This Easter, we remember the life of Father Luis Olivares, a leader in the sanctuary movement of the 1980s and a proponent of liberation theology. To him, Christianity was a call to stand with the poor and oppressed of the world.
Gentrifying the Los Angeles River
Once marginalized by the city’s elite, LA’s riverside neighborhoods are now facing revitalization — and displacement.
A Plan B for Our Planet
Neoliberal president Macron’s fuel tax hike has sparked six months of protests. But for France Insoumise’s Danièle Obono, the gilets jaunes and climate marchers aren’t on opposing sides: they both want the rich to pay for climate chaos.
In Defense of the Tennessee Valley Authority
The Tennessee Valley Authority was one of the greatest achievements of FDR’s New Deal. But a new generation of liberals and leftists are turning against the dream of “big public power” in America.
“I Didn’t Sit Eight and a Half Years in Jail to Build Capitalism”
Karol Modzelewski emerged in the 1960s as a leading dissident against Poland’s state socialist dictatorship — but he remained a socialist until the very end.
The Socialist Case for School Integration
America’s schools are more segregated than ever. We can integrate them — but only by forcing the state to expand universal public institutions and redistribute wealth.
The Railway Labor Act Allowed Congress to Break the Rail Strike. We Should Get Rid of It.
Congress was able to break the rail strike last week because of a century-old law designed to weaken the disruptive power of unions. It’s time to cast aside this law and every other government-mandated strike prohibition that ties the hands of workers.
“Antiwar Sentiment in the Military Is Stronger Than Ever.”
Iraq War veteran Mike Prysner on what the military-industrial complex gained by staying in Afghanistan so long, what’s next for US empire, and why antiwar sentiment is rising among active-duty soldiers.
The Community Housing Activist Voted Onto Oakland’s City Council
Community organizer Carroll Fife is preparing to enter city hall in Oakland. She joins part of a wave of left-wing insurgents unseating neoliberal officials across the country, and she’ll be working to build municipal power from the bottom up.