City Council Socialism: An Interview with Ty Moore
Ty Moore on his recent run as a socialist for Minneapolis City Council.
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Joe Rogan Hosted Canada’s Free Market Champion
Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre recently appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience. He offered a blend of anti-government populism and free-market triumphalism in a pitch that was aimed at US capital as much as Canadian voters.
The Austerity Backlash
The Liberal government in Quebec's attempt to impose austerity has instead galvanized thousands against it.
Garbage In, Garbage Out
Turns out Clinton's ground game sucked.
Bernie’s Path to Victory
Don’t worry about the naysaying pundits and polls. Bernie Sanders’s road to victory is through mobilizing the kind of voters who don’t usually vote. Whether or not he can pull it off is up to us.
What It Means to Be on the Left
The socialist project is about more than just winning a nicer version of capitalism.
The Left Needs Utopian Thinking
Conservative apologists for the status quo often stigmatize their opponents as “utopian.” But socialists and feminists shouldn’t be afraid of the term, since utopian thought can play an important role in helping us develop practical alternatives.
The Same Bosses
Fighting corporate trade deals requires uniting with immigrants and foreign workers — not scapegoating them.
Overhauling French Politics
At stake in Sunday's French election is the specter of the far right, the neoliberalism of the extreme center, and Mélenchon's challenge to the system itself.
A Feminism That Means Something
Liberal feminism’s laser-like focus on winning formal equality between the sexes has distracted us from what should be feminism's true aim: winning a world where everyone has their basic needs met and everyone can flourish.
The State Road to Universal Single-Payer Health Care
Unfortunately, any hope for a national Medicare for All is currently off the table. That’s why organizers throughout the country should launch campaigns at the state level to win M4A.
Franco’s Afterlife
Spain’s uncertain democracy, built from the ruins of the dictatorship, is finally beginning to collapse.
Revolutionary Socialists in the Democratic-Socialist Moment
Right now, democratic socialism is on the rise in American society. Revolutionary socialists who have kept the torch of socialism burning during the lean years will now have to merge with democratic-socialist demands of the current moment.
Miliband and the State
Ralph Miliband was right in urging socialists to leave the legacy of Leninism behind us. But achieving socialism will still require a change in the fundamental nature of the state.
MAGA McCarthyism Comes to Texas State
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, a self-described “anti-communist cult leader” used a selectively edited video to falsely accuse labor historian and tenured professor Tom Alter of inciting violence. Texas State University’s president swiftly fired him.
For Roman Workers, Life Was Nasty, Brutish, and Short
Our images of the Roman Empire are dominated by the monuments and lifestyles of wealthy urban elites. An important new history shifts our attention to the 90% of Rome’s population whose brutally exploited labor made it all possible.
Gentrification Is Killing John Wilson’s Oddball New York
How To With John Wilson is an ode to weirdo New York. But that New York may not exist for long, as Mayor Eric Adams is determined to sand down the city’s nonconformist edges in the service of economic elites.
If Bernie Runs in 2024, His Campaign Should Build a Left Political Organization
The next Bernie Sanders campaign, if it happens at all, could be used to build an organization that helps transcend the Left’s current impasse. Bernie 2024 — but make it a new beginning instead of a last hurrah.
“It’s Time to Engage in as Much Class Struggle as We Can”
The United Electrical workers’ union and the Democratic Socialists of America are teaming up to help nonunion workers organize during the coronavirus crisis. The goal: find workers who are already spoiling for a fight and help them win it.
Max Levitas (1915-2018)
Max Levitas was a towering figure of Britain’s labor movement. A hardened enemy of the Blackshirts in the years before World War II, the Irish-Jewish communist devoted nearly a century to fighting injustice.