Letter: Winter of Our Discontent
The seasons are shifting, and with them, the balance of power. A scorching, record breaking European summer will soon give way to a cold winter. …
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 …
Letter: On Operation Dixie
Veronica Darby’s article on the failure of Operation Dixie is worth a read but as an analysis of Labor history it is fundamentally flawed. I …
Disculpe, No Entiendo: Language Justice with Esme and Lizette from LA Tenants Union
Rudy joins Esme and Lizette, from the LA Tenants Union for an introductory discussion on language justice. We discuss what language justice and linguicism are and what …
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, …
Under the Socialist Banner with Mike Taber
Donald Parkinson sits down with Mike Taber, editor of ‘Under the Socialist Banner’, a collection of resolutions from the Congresses of the Second International’s revolutionary …
Cosmonaut at Socialism 2022
We proudly announce that Cosmonaut will be sponsoring and presenting at this year’s Socialism 2022 conference, hosted in Chicago from September 2-5th. We will be …
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 …
Letter: On Cross-Class Alliances
My thanks to Jack L for an intelligent and useful contribution regarding cross-class alliances/popular fronts-united fronts. I come from a tradition (US Socialist Workers Party …
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 …
Ireland: Colonialism and the Unfinished Revolution with Robbie McVeigh and Bill Rolston
Rudy joins Robbie McVeigh and Bill Rolston, authors of Anois ar theacht an tSamhraidh: Ireland, Colonialism and the Unfinished Revolution for a discussion on Irish history from …