Love Me, Ferguson, I’m a Liberal
How liberals brought an anticommunist slur from America’s past back to life.
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The Other March on Washington
As Nazism was challenged abroad, A. Philip Randolph led an uncompromising campaign for democracy at home.
An Open Letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Liberals Who Love Him
The reparations demand survives as a parlor debate — it cannot address the real needs and interests of black workers.
All of Kissinger’s Friends
Last night's Democratic debate showed how thoroughly liberals have renounced the anti-interventionist tradition.
This Didn’t Have to Happen
Many white workers aren't voting for Democrats this November. And we can't just blame racism.
Everybody Hates Cornel West
How Cornel West went from liberal media darling to pariah.
Democratic Socialism Is About Democracy
At the core of democratic socialism is a simple idea: democracy is good, and it should be expanded.
Sara Nelson: “People Are Ready to Fight”
Sara Nelson in her own words on building a fighting labor movement, the proud history of democratic socialism in America, how workers ended the shutdown, and how they'll stop Trump, too.
Bernie’s Green New Deal Is for the Working Class
The Green New Deal proposal unveiled by Bernie Sanders promises to save the planet while providing tens of millions of good-paying jobs in the process. By attacking unemployment, it builds both renewable energy and the power of the working class.
Thank You, Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders took socialism out of the margins and into the American mainstream for the first time in generations. His contributions to the struggle for a better world cannot be overstated.
Capitalism Made Gay Identity Possible. Now We Must Destroy Capitalism.
Gay identity became possible thanks to capitalism’s emancipatory side: its liberation of the individual from material dependence on the family. But that sexual freedom wasn’t automatic — it required decades of militant struggle. Today, we need more such struggles to combat the oppressive aspects of capitalism, which keep gay and straight people alike from living fully free lives.
Stanley Aronowitz Knew That Freedom Begins Where Work Ends
Stanley Aronowitz died this week at 88. He hated work, loved life, and brought his overflowing, exuberant approach to social problems to picket lines, classrooms, and vacation. A fighting left needs more people like him.
“Human Capital” Is Not the Answer to Inequality
In the neoliberal era, Democrats adopted an elitist approach that emphasized education as the key to individual success. Only the revival of an inclusive social democratic politics can reverse economic inequality and defeat reactionary populism.
The Radical Harry Belafonte
From the struggle for civil rights to opposing apartheid in South Africa and the war against Cuba, Harry Belafonte was a fighter for justice both at home and abroad.
We Need an Economic Bill of Rights
Political rights are not enough. Economic rights — the right to home, food, health care, a union, and a safe and stable planet — should be our rallying cry for a just country and world.
The Left Can’t Abandon Political Independence
Socialists have demonstrated the tactical utility of running on the Democratic Party ballot line. But making our peace with the party would be a mistake — to accomplish our goals, independent political organization and identity is indispensable.
New York City Paraprofessionals Need More
Half a century ago, New York City paraprofessional educators waged a campaign to win their first contract as part of the teachers union. It’s a history the union can draw on to win needed advances for paras today.
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.
A. Philip Randolph Was Once “the Most Dangerous Negro in America”
The organizer of the March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech was also the leader of the first successful black labor union. For A. Philip Randolph, labor and civil rights were one and the same.
Ernest Calloway Fused Civil Rights and Class Struggle
Twentieth-century black labor leader Ernest Calloway never became a household name. But through his work in both the Teamsters and the NAACP, he embodied the transformative potential of a united labor and civil rights movement.