Two Steps Forward: Report and Analysis on the 2022 YDSA Convention
Harrison Cole of Marxist Unity Group reports on the 2022 YDSA Convention. “…for the union makes us strong!” After singing all six stanzas of the …
Articles
Bread, Land, and Socialism: An Interview with MIR Veteran and Political-Economist Claudio Jedlicki
Cosmonaut interviews Chilean-French economist and veteran of the Chilean Radical Left Claudio Jedlicki. The interview has been translated from Spanish and mildly edited for clarity. …
Trust the Bridge That Carried Us Over: The Failure of Operation Dixie 1946-53
Veronica Darby presents a history of the Congress of Industrial Organizations’ (CIO) failed seven-year-long attempt to organize the Southern United States. Introduction On March 3rd, …
Surge and Decline, Part 3: American Vision
Josh Messite, Editor at Negation Magazine, lays out the evidence that Al-Qaeda wasn’t the only organization involved in 9/11 and uses the indications of state …
The Case for a Working People’s Bill of Rights and the Working People’s Union
Shuvu Bhattarai argues that a general petition of working class demands, the Working People’s Bill of Rights, is a necessary antecedent to the construction of …
Lev Gleason: Crime Comics’ Communist Czar
Hank Kennedy recounts the life and work of U.S. left-wing comics publisher Levrett Stone Gleason. Crime Does Not Pay no. 42, 1945. When people think …
Striking Without Threatening: On Marxism, Ethics, and the Truth of Communism
Roxy Hall responds to ΔΜ’s argument for a Marxist virtue ethics, arguing that Communism is itself a wholly new ethical system. Love what you …
On the Democratic Republic, Working-Class Rule, Dictatorship, and Reconstruction
Gil Schaeffer responds to letters from Renzo Llorente, Abner Dalrymple, and R. A. on the question of liberal-democratic rights. In my 5/8/2022 reply to Père …
Coalitions of the Liberal and Socialist Left
How should socialists engage in coalitional politics? Jack L draws conclusions based on historical lessons and recent experiences in the housing struggle. In the summer …
The Elephant in the Room: Political Education on the UK Left
Working from a Freirean pedagogical perspective, Ewan Cameron assesses the state of political education in some of the major organizations of the contemporary UK Left. …
Glushkov and His Ideas: Cybernetics of the Future by Vasiliy Pikhorovich
Translation and introduction by Renato Flores. Translated from here. Introduction The waste inherent in capitalist production is obvious when we glance around: near-empty planes flying …
No End in Sight: On the War in Ukraine
Alexander Gallus pushes against the haze of propaganda to assess the current course of the war between Ukraine and Russia. Daily headlines over the past …
State, Democracy, and Transition: Is There a “Democratic Road” to Socialism?
Maxi Nieto critiques the perspectives of the “new democratic socialism” and argues they are based on a misunderstanding of capitalism as a structural totality. Introduction …
My Perspective on YDSA’s Red Hot Summer: Opening and First Sessions
Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) member AP reports on the opening and first sessions of YDSA’s Red Hot Summer organizer training. A YDSA Banner …