Time For Unions To Step Up On Medicare For All
The labor movement can't afford to keep clinging to the remnants of its private welfare state.
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Remembering Pier Paolo Pasolini
A look at the life and politics of Pier Paolo Pasolini, heterodox communist.
The Melbourne March
Australian workers rallied yesterday against repressive labor laws in the largest march in more than a decade.
There Is No Writer Quite Like Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy has a tendency to rile India’s media and political elites like no one else on the subcontinent. Perhaps that’s because no writer today, in India or anywhere in the world, writes with the kind of beautiful, piercing prose in defense of the wretched of the earth that Roy does.
The Humanity of American Communism
Communist Party members are often stereotyped as mindless zombies that blindly took orders from Moscow. But for many in the CPUSA, the party allowed them to recognize their own capacity to change the world.
The Tragedy of Bayard Rustin
How one of the greatest American socialists ended up on the wrong side of history.
Striking Big Brown
UPS might be the next target of the national strike wave — but under very unusual circumstances.
An Interview With Nina Turner
Our Revolution president Nina Turner on the Democratic Party, immigration reform, democratic socialism, and a Sanders 2020 presidential run.
Against Janša, Against Brussels
The far right won elections this month in Slovenia. Can the Left mount a challenge?
Why Britain Is in an Uproar Over a Tory Lockdown Scofflaw
The UK’s Boris Johnson had been coasting through the COVID-19 crisis — but that was before his aide Dominic Cummings’s flouting of social-distancing rules set off a nationwide furor. It’s reminded the country of everything they hate about the Tories: their privileged obliviousness and their belief that normal rules don’t apply to them.
Testaments Betrayed
How Yugoslavia's vibrant Marxist humanists morphed into right-wing nationalists.
In France, Just Like the United States, We Can’t Breathe
Cities across France are seeing a historic wave of protest against racism and the killing of young black people. The French revolt was sparked by the demonstrations in the United States — but it’s fueled by police brutality at home.
Woke Capitalism Isn’t Your Friend
Brands like Pepsi, Nike, and Amazon are embracing Black Lives Matter on social media. Don't be fooled: corporate anti-racism isn’t about solidarity – it’s just a marketing campaign.
Why I’m Still Thinking About the Amy Cooper “Black Birder” Episode in Central Park
Amy Cooper’s calling the police on a black man in New York’s Central Park represents an extreme example of racist behavior. But it also offers a window onto the experiences of black Americans that highlights the importance of affirmative action and radical redistributive policies as central to anti-racism today.
Why Bill de Blasio Is Such a Schmuck
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio claims he wants to change the most unjust policies of American life in the 21 century. The problem is, he is instinctively hostile to the protests and grassroots organizing necessary to win such change.
“We Are Fighting for Our Lives Against People With Money and Power”
Minneapolis bus drivers provided a model of solidarity during the George Floyd protests by refusing to transport police officers. We spoke with the president of the bus driver union’s black caucus about the inspiring action and the need for a labor movement that fights for more than just bread-and-butter economic gains for its members.
Something Is Stirring in the Labor Movement
A coronavirus-era partnership between the United Electrical Workers and Democratic Socialists of America has given birth to what may be the most innovative labor organizing campaign since the '30s: the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee.
The Lesser Evil
After years of corruption scandals and austerity, Spain finally ousted its conservative president Mariano Rajoy. But will the center-left PSOE do much better?
Why Conservatives Hate Democracy
From the 1930s to today, the modern conservative movement has tried to restrict majority rule at every turn — because they know a mass democratic movement poses an existential threat to their power.
Police Brutality Against Protesters Only Stoked the Anti–Police Brutality Movement
Credit for the unprecedented wave of mass protests should go to anti-police brutality activists, movement journalists, and politicized young people. But let’s not forget the boys in blue themselves: cops' vicious treatment of protesters proved to millions around the world that the protesters were right.