Circuit Breakers: Profit, Bubbles, Crisis, and Chokepoints in the Tech Economy
Gary Levi, January 15, 2025
Gary Levi analyzes the nature of speculative investment bubbles in the tech industry and conjectures on the likely direction that labor struggles will take in response to the coming crash of the AI frenzy. Read Article.
The Repression of Palestine Solidarity in Canada
Owen Schalk, January 8, 2025
Owen Schalk covers the history of the Canadian state's repression of Palestine solidarity activism both before and after October 7, 2023. Read Article.
Butler on the Paris Commune
Kyle A. Edwards, January 3, 2025
Kyle A. Edwards introduces this republication of General Benjamin Butler's remarks on the Paris Commune by highlighting the contemporary necessity for a mass independent workers' movement. Read Article.
Teaching Liberation: The Rhetoric & Writing of Socialism
Elia Newsom, December 27, 2024
Elia Newsom reflects on the struggles and successes they experienced teaching a university course on socialism during the Fall 2023 semester at the University of Colorado Boulder. Read Article.
Birth of a Bonaparte?: Trump and the End of US Bourgeois Democracy
Bluebird, December 20, 2024
Bluebird argues that Donald Trump’s recent presidential victory has planted the seeds of a Bonapartist state and, as a result, the end of US bourgeois democracy may be in sight. Read Article.
Learning From Each Other’s Oppression: Latin American Revolutionary Nationalist Music in the Liner Notes of Paredon Records
Jackson Albert Mann, December 11, 2024
Jackson Albert Mann examines the debate that took place over nationalism, internationalism, and musical aesthetics in the liner notes to albums of Latin American revolutionary nationalist music released by US-based, left-wing record label, Paredon Records, between 1969 and 1985. Read Article.
The Day After Trump Won
Cletus Conscript, December 6, 2024
Cletus Conscript responds to the recent victory of Donald Trump in the 2024 US presidential election with a polemic on the future of the US socialist movement. Read Article.
Honoring Nazis: A Canadian Tradition Since the 1930s
Owen Schalk, December 4, 2024
Far from a recent development, Canada's celebration of the Nazi Yaroslav Hunka has deep roots. Owen Schalk surveys the history of ruling class and government support for Nazi elements among Canada's Ukrainian populations as a means to combat the left. Read Article.
Lessons of the Election
Ari S., November 22, 2024
Ari S. analyzes the results of the recent US presidential election and stakes out a vision for the future of US socialist electoral strategy in the wake of the Democratic Party's historic defeat. Read Article.
Stop the Presses, Start Fighting!: The 1967 Newspaper Strike in Utica, New York
J.N. Cheney, November 15, 2024
J.N. Cheney recounts the 1967 Utica, NY newspaper workers' strike, arguing that the trajectory of the struggle and the demands raised by the strikers exemplify Marx's notion of proletarian development. Read Article.