The Socialist Party of America’s Constitutional Critique
Luke Pickrell covers the emergence of constitutional criticism among US left-wing organizations at the turn of the 20th century, highlighting the democratic republicanism of those …
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Circuit Breakers: Profit, Bubbles, Crisis, and Chokepoints in the Tech Economy
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 …
White Hoods and Pinkertons with Chad Pearson
Isaac, Cliff, and Jay interview Chad Pearson, author of the book Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century. We discuss the …
The Repression of Palestine Solidarity in Canada
Owen Schalk covers the history of the Canadian state’s repression of Palestine solidarity activism both before and after October 7, 2023. Since October 7, 2023, …
Butler on the Paris Commune
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’ …
Teaching Liberation: The Rhetoric & Writing of Socialism
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 …
Birth of a Bonaparte?: Trump and the End of US Bourgeois Democracy
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 …
Learning From Each Other’s Oppression: Latin American Revolutionary Nationalist Music in the Liner Notes of Paredon Records
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 …
The Day After Trump Won
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 …
Honoring Nazis: A Canadian Tradition Since the 1930s
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 …
Lessons of the Election
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 …
Stop the Presses, Start Fighting!: The 1967 Newspaper Strike in Utica, New York
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 …
Election 2024: Don’t Mourn—Organize
White supremacy won in the 2024 elections, and the Democrats have no answers. Our only solution, writes Steve Bloom, is to develop militant mass movements …
Towards a United Front for Palestine
What is the basis for a united front around Palestinian liberation in the US? Holden Taylor and Jack Lundquist explore the organizations, strategies and fault …