The Identity Mistake
Mistaken Identity claims to overcome the limits of identity politics but leads us down the same dead end.
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Labor Has Only One Candidate: Bernie Sanders
At the Philadelphia Workers’ Presidential Summit, Joe Biden disappointed while Elizabeth Warren didn’t even bother to show. Only Bernie Sanders has the plan and the record to help bring the labor movement back.
Bernie’s Campaign Strategy Wasn’t the Problem
With Bernie Sanders now out of the race, commentators from left and right are finding fault with the campaign itself, arguing that there was too much class politics or not enough. But the problem wasn’t Bernie’s campaign strategy — it was the full force of the Democratic establishment that so effectively consolidated against him.
Black Political Life and the Blue Lives Matter Presidency
To meaningfully confront mass incarceration and police violence, the Left must move past race reductionism by recognizing the complexities of black political life.
Why Wagenknecht Will Fail
In Germany and elsewhere, making tactical concessions to the Right isn’t just bad socialist politics — it won’t work.
The Creativity Bubble
Richard Florida chats about Karl Kautsky, Karl Marx, and other urban creative types.
What Is Socialist Feminism?
Barbara Ehrenreich on why we need socialist feminism to fight patriarchy.
For Workers, Hospitals Have Become the New Steel Mills — Minus the Strong Unions
Health care workplaces have replaced steel mills and auto plants as the nation’s big employers. But while industrial workers once had mighty unions, hospital workers have struggled by comparison to win representation and good contracts.
The Popular Front Didn’t Work
The Communist Party’s 1930s popular front strategy weakened the labor movement and empowered the Democratic Party.
Beyond Social Movement Unionism
Bringing together weak unions and weak social movements isn’t enough. We need a new kind of socialist party.
Is This the Future Liberals Want?
In a 2020 campaign against Donald Trump, a bet on Elizabeth Warren is a risky wager on its own terms. But over the next twenty years, a turn toward progressive technocracy is not a bet at all — it’s an unconditional surrender to class dealignment.
Rebuilding a Workers’ Movement
A new labor federation in South Africa promises to resist the country’s neoliberal kleptocracy, but it faces an uphill battle.
Julius Deutsch, an Anti-Fascist Who Organized Workers on the Sports Field
Austrian socialist Julius Deutsch was a key figure in Red Vienna’s workers’ sports clubs. Founder of the Schutzbund workers’ militia, Deutsch and his comrades used the class pride built on the sports field to mobilize against rising fascism.
We Still Need to Nationalize the Banks
The demand for the government to take over banks was once a rallying cry of mass movements of workers and farmers in the United States. In an era of runaway Wall Street greed and power, that demand should again be central.
Registering Class and Politics
Leo Panitch on Ralph Miliband and fifty years of the Socialist Register.
What Strategy for the US Left?
The capitalist state’s dependence on profitability and its institutional structure make the strategy of successive, partial breaks through “non-reformist reforms” unrealistic.
The UAW’s Shawn Fain on Union Growth and Union Power
United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain: “Make no mistake: the billionaire class is not going to give up power willingly. They are on an endless pursuit of profit, no matter the cost.”
Never Trust a Billionaire’s Antiracism
The Los Angeles strike wasn’t just a teachers’ victory. It was also a tale of two competing antiracist visions — one upheld by privatizing billionaires and another pushed by working people.
Why They Left
Brexit wasn't the first time Europeans rejected the EU, and it won't be the last. Here's what the Left should do.