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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.