An essential part of ringing in the New Year will be preparing for the major political struggles of 2026. Here’s a month-by-month roundup of the key union fights, elections, and other events of note for the Left.
Norristown, Pennsylvania, is a majority-renter town with deep industrial roots. New councilmember David McMahon explains why the suburbs aren’t a monolith — and why suburbs like his are fertile ground for socialist organizing.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has only existed since 2003. There’s nothing extreme about the idea of disbanding the rogue agency.
It’s time we see ICE as it already sees itself: a domestic army dispatched by the Trump administration to terrorize vulnerable people and violently intimidate political enemies into submission.
Today’s liberal anti-Trump Resistance is stronger than it was in his first term, precisely because it has taken seriously some of the arguments of its critics.
Unlike Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Gov. Kathy Hochul has not backed striking New York nurses, tepidly calling on “both sides” to negotiate. Her position may have to do with the hefty donations state Democrats have received from the New York hospital association.
The recent right-wing obsession with Cea Weaver, a longtime tenant organizer appointed to lead the Office to Protect Tenants, reveals how shaken New York City’s real estate elites are by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pro-renter agenda.
The glue that holds Donald Trump’s coalition together is not ideological coherence but a volatile compound of empire, spectacle, and grievance. Understanding these tensions helps explain both MAGA’s successes and its weaknesses.
Chris Brooks, former chief of staff to United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain, was key to an attempt to transform a once mighty union hobbled by corruption and lethargy. Here’s what he learned from that process.
It’s 2017. Time to stop worrying about the questions of 1917.
Donald Trump’s authoritarianism has been enabled by long-standing antidemocratic features of the US state — the same features that have time and again blocked pro-worker policies. The Left needs a serious program aimed at democratizing our political system.
The Russian state has forced many antiwar leftists into exile, cutting them off from ordinary Russians. But activists are well aware that change in Russia must come from within, mobilizing ordinary people around their own interests.
The rapid growth of DSA in recent decades is part of a global phenomenon of voters and activists from the Left and Right who distrust the political establishment and traditional parties, and have formed what scholar Fabian Holt calls “movement parties.”
Beating Donald Trump isn’t enough, argue the Democratic Socialists of America’s cochairs. A united left-labor campaign in 2028 could mobilize millions, challenge Democratic Party failure, and put a working-class program on the national stage.
We must organize around ideas that give people something to fight for, not just something to fight against.
A union machinist just won a Texas State Senate seat Trump carried by 17 points. He was outspent four to one. How did he do it? By tossing out the Democrats’ playbook and running a grassroots economic populist campaign with a strong pro-labor message.
The 2006 “Day Without an Immigrant” mobilized millions and killed a draconian anti-immigrant bill. With ICE waging war on immigrant communities, the playbook for a mass strike already exists — we just have to study it.
Few states better illustrate the contradictions and failures of the Democratic Party than West Virginia.
The new documentary WTO/99 reconstructs the 1999 protests against a global neoliberal trade order, the violent police repression, and the hope for a different world that found vibrant expression on the streets of Seattle.
Last year’s elections saw a resurgence for Germany’s socialist party Die Linke. In an interview, coleader Ines Schwerdtner explains how the party is seeking to expand beyond current left-wing voters to reach broader parts of the working class.