The Dawn of Social Evolution
Nicolas D Villarreal reviews David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything and outlines a theory of social evolution that answers the book’s objections …
Letter: Negotiations to End the War
Currently, the idea is being floated that Ukraine will accept EU membership in exchange for changing the part of its constitution that fixes its goal …
Reintroducing John Dos Passos
Lawrence Parker introduces a 1938 New Masses article by Granville Hicks on US writer John Dos Passos and argues that the latter’s work is ripe …
Letter: On Russia and Ukraine and Geopolitical Realpolitik
PREAMBLE Considering that it is a multipolar world, not a unipolar world of geopolitical hegemony, that has historically given class movements in multiple countries political …
Letter: The Hegemony of Humanitarian Intervention
Quick housekeeping: I’m not in DSA. I’ve been involved in other socialist organizations like Socialist Alternative in the past, and in this letter I speak …
Letter: Regarding Gallus’ The Russian “Threat to Freedom and Democracy”
The article by Gallus The Russian “Threat to Freedom and Democracy” to me at large is not persuasive and has multiple issues at hand. Let’s …
The Eco-Centrist Movement: The Sierra Club & Earth First! with Keith Mako Woodhouse
Rudy joins Keith Woodhouse, author of The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism for a discussion on the history of the mainstream environmental movement in …
Letter on the Reply to “The Russian ‘Threat to Freedom and Democracy'”
In reply to the letter from Renato, RF, who unfortunately found my article “bizarre,” I would like to first of all reiterate that the threat …
Letter: Comments on “The Russian Threat”
The latest article by Alexander Gallus on the Russia-Ukraine escalation and later war is a bit bizarre. Even if I agree with the conclusion, that …
The Russian “Threat to Freedom and Democracy”
Alexander Gallus takes a closer look at the developments leading up to this week’s dramatic events and offers some explanations for how we got to …
Understanding & Learning with the Working Class: Workers’ Inquiry and Social Investigation
AJ, Annie, Ira and Rudy discuss the methods of workers’ inquiry and social investigation and how they have applied it to their organizing. They talk …
The Dead End and How We Got Here
Has base-building as a strategy failed? Tim Horras argues in the negative, taking on critiques of base-building from D.L. Jacobs. “Given this general prosperity, wherein …
The African Blood Brotherhood, its Relations and Legacy
Combining the insights of previous scholarship with information gathered from Bureau of Investigation (BOI, predecessor of the FBI) surveillance documents, Ian Szabo presents a new …
From the Fields to the Stars!: Sputnik, Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination
For our 100th episode, we go back to our roots. Djamil, Virginia and Rudy sit down to discuss the launch of Sputnik, using Asif A. …