Letter: Did Amazon Even Go On Strike?
January 16, 2025
“At some point before the holidays, it was announced that Amazon was going out on strike. To say I was excited would be an understatement. It was the …”
Letter: Towards an Independent Workers Slate
January 13, 2025
“The socialist movement has reached a crossroads in the United States–the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), doubly so. With the Democratic Party enormously discrediting itself amongst the working …”
Letter: Disavowal Plaguing the Liberal Left
December 9, 2024
“It will be expected when the Democratic establishment retroactively blames an array of forces as the culprits for Kamala Harris defeat and the subsequent harmful measures Trump’s administration …”
Letter: Is The Working Class Right?
December 3, 2024
“The 2024 US election has shocked many around the world with Donald Trump’s landslide victory. But his return should not be considered as a US phenomenon. In recent …”
Letter: From Minority-to-Majority
November 22, 2024
“I very much enjoyed the piece on the abolitionist “dirty break,” a fine piece on what I term “from minority-to-majority” movements. If there ever was total political victory, …”
Letter: Harm Reduction Votes in Presidential Elections No Longer Make Sense in Practice or Theory
November 5, 2024
“The concept of “harm reduction” has been subjected to a curious form of concept drift over the past few US presidential election cycles. Although “harm reduction” originated in …”
Letter: The Crisis of Democracy and the 2024 Election
October 28, 2024
“The one safe prediction we can make about the upcoming presidential election is that it can only result in a further intensification of the crisis of US democracy. …”
Letter: On the Abolition of the Death Penalty
October 2, 2024
“An innocent man was murdered by the United States. May Khaliifah Ibn Rayford Daniels ’Abdul Qudduus, formerly Marcellus Williams, rest in power. The death penalty has no place …”
Letter: The Current State of the US Socialist Movement
September 26, 2024
“The past decade of US political life has been defined by Bernie Sanders’ two presidential runs. By 2016, Sanders had spent almost forty years developing a political infrastructure …”
Letter: Nostalgia For a Trotskyist Sect
September 11, 2024
“Recently, I’ve felt nostalgic for the International Socialist Organization (ISO), a defunct Trotskyist sect that existed from 1976 to 2019. It’s a strange feeling, since I was a …”
Letter: Open Rebellion Against Teamsters GP Sean O’Brien
August 21, 2024
“This past week the Teamsters National Black Caucus (TNBC) held their yearly conference in Las Vegas. Angered by Teamsters general president (GP) Sean O’Brien’s embarrassing spectacle at the …”
Letter: MUG's Call to “Fight the Constitution” and Macnair's "Revolutionary Strategy"
August 19, 2024
“I want to call the attention of Cosmonaut's readers to my article, published recently in the Weekly Worker: “In Search of a Synthesis.” I believe it is directly …”
Letter: Lessons From Rural Electrification in the U.S. on Radical Approaches to Bureaucracy
August 17, 2024
“I greatly enjoyed reading Michael Zajakowski Uhll’s essay, “Cogs in the Great Machinery,” about bureaucracy, which drew on his own personal experiences as a worker in New York …”
Letter: Emmanuel in the Gulf
August 13, 2024
“I am very pleased to see Jaime Litvak’s piece examining the political economy of Gulf Coordination Council (GCC) imperialism in the Horn of Africa. I don’t think I …”
Letter: After Sean O’Brien’s spectacle at the RNC, Teamsters withdraw premature endorsement of racist Kevin de Leon
August 9, 2024
“In the aftermath of Sean O’Brien’s embarrassing homage to the most reactionary and xenophobic Republican party in generations at their party’s National Convention last month, the largest Teamsters …”