The Firm Ground of History and the Plateau of Politics
Luke Pickrell offers his latest polemic in the ongoing debate with Henry DeGroot around Marxist Unity Group’s call for a Democratic Republic. Leonid Aleksandrovich Golub, …
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Read Le Blanc. Be careful.
Cliff Connolly reviews Paul LeBlanc’s latest work ‘Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution’, available from Pluto Press on September 20th. Cliff will be speaking on …
The UPS Struggle and the Tasks of Marxists in the Labor Movement
Teamsters Mobilize members and former activists in Revolutionary Marxist Students Audrey Johnson and Lenni Myers assess the current UPS tentative agreement and outline a Marxist strategy …
The Slogan of Our Time
Talking about socialism in the abstract is not enough, argues Luke Pickrell. We need a roadmap, and the slogan of the Democratic Republic shows the …
Cop City or People’s City? Atlanta at the Crossroads
S.A. Reed reports on the June 5th protest against Cop City in Atlanta and offers a potential path forward for the movement against the U.S. …
Marxism and the Democratic Republic
Luke Pickrell of Marxist Unity Group emphasizes the centrality of radical democracy to the communist project and reintroduces the construction of the democratic republic as …
Letter: On Sortition and Democratic Decision-making
This letter is in response to Conquering Democracy, Abolishing Political Representation by the Cibcom Collective. I appreciated the comrades’ thought-provoking work and the opportunity to …
Atom Bombs, National Security, and Empire: Year Seventy-Eight of the Cold War
Gil Schaeffer looks to the Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam War movements as examples of how the modern left can best articulate its opposition to the …
Solidarity Sometimes: U.S. Organized Labor’s Cold War Policy in Central and South America
Hank Kennedy presents a historical overview of the reactionary Cold War international policy of the Meany/Kirkland era AFL-CIO, with a focus on its relations with …
Unite the Pro-Party Wing to Revolutionize the DSA!
Shuvu Bhattarai of the Marxist Unity Group outlines an overview of the recent history of DSA and finds a demarcation between pro-party and anti-party tendencies, …
Socialism With American Characteristics
Luke Pickrell and Myra Janis critique the 2019 updated party program of the Communist Party, USA, arguing that the CPUSA’s continued commitment to the Popular …
American Socialism from 1892 to 1908: A Study in Two Programs
Transcription and commentary by SA Reed. Read by Cliff Introduction Much has been written about the history of the socialist program, with classical European examples …
R.I.P. or Long Live Trotskyism?
Shamus Cooke responds to John Kelly’s new work on the world Trotskyist movement, ‘Twilight of World Trotskyism,’ arguing that the core elements of Trotskyism remain …
Naming the System: “Means as Ends” Socialism and the Importance of Alternative Political Culture and Program
Isaac KD and Jack L defend their critique of DSA’s dominant strategic orientation towards reform campaigns in a response to Sam Lewis’ “In Defense of …