Turning to the Working Class
Kim Moody reflects on his time in the New Left, turning to the working class, and opportunities for socialists in the labor movement today.
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Everything You Wanted to Ask About Sects . . . But Were Afraid to Know
We joined the New Communist Movement because we were serious about changing the world. It taught us much about how to organize — and how sectarianism ruins everything.
When the Americans Came
Bombed by the US Air Force at the height of World War II, Rome’s San Lorenzo district symbolizes the resilience of a popular antifascism.
The Jerry Lewis of International Diplomacy
Is Trump’s foreign policy the work of an incompetent ignoramus or a strategic genius? The answer may surprise you.
The End of ETA
For more than four decades, ETA waged an armed campaign for a Basque homeland. The group’s dissolution this spring marked the end of a history of terrorist violence and bloody state repression.
Why Bernie Was Right to Oppose US Intervention in Central America
The New York Times recently attacked Bernie Sanders for opposing US intervention in Latin America in the 1980s. We should set the record straight on what the US was doing in Central America — and why Sanders was right to oppose it.
The Rank and File Strategy
The labor movement is the critical institution for the Left. Socialists should root themselves in it — not as supporters from afar or paid staff, but as rank-and-file workers.
Every Child Needs the Good Enough State
The richness of childhood needs to be embraced as a social good.
The Case of Richard Aoki: Berkeley Radical, Black Panther, FBI Informant
Richard Aoki was well-known as a lifelong Bay Area radical, playing key roles in the Socialist Workers Party, Berkeley ethnic studies strike, and Black Panther Party. He was also an FBI informant.
Medicalizing Society
The rise of psychiatry was funded by America’s Gilded Age industrialists. Their aim: to cast society’s ills as problems of individual "mental health."
How Community Land Trusts Can Help Address the Affordable Housing Crisis
The United States is in the middle of a massive housing crisis. Community land trusts can help address it.
Dress Rehearsals for Utopia
Liberals like to paint mass performance as totalitarian and repressive. But the festivals of revolutionary France gave the people a sense of its own power.
Anything but Pacific
Emmanuel Macron celebrated New Caledonia’s vote to remain part of France as an indication of the Republic’s strength. Yet France’s continued control is based on a bloody history of repression against the independence movement.
The Public Ownership Solution
The US has a surprisingly large amount of public ownership. But in order for it to truly serve the social good, it must be expanded — and democratized.
Seán Garland 1934–2018
A historic leader of Irish republicanism, Seán Garland steered a difficult course between class politics and the demands of the armed struggle.
We Have a Right to Boycott Israel
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is trying to criminalize boycotts of Israel — an appalling, McCarthyite attack on free speech.
Medicare Will Be Good for Everyone — Except CEOs
The only people who won't benefit from Medicare for All are the insurance industry CEOs profiting off people's pain.
Assessing Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping was one of the most important Communist leaders of the twentieth century. Celebrated by the West for his pro-market reforms, leftists should be more skeptical of his accomplishments.
Medicare for All Is a Reproductive Rights Issue
Feminists have been pushing for years to repeal the Hyde Amendment. But we should think even bigger: Medicare for All.
Nothing Short of Medicare for All in 2020
Bernie Sanders would be the only 2020 presidential candidate who’s taken on health care profiteers in the name of the working class and worked to pass Medicare for All through social movement pressure, not compromise.