The Worker and the Hydra: A Reply to Partisan Mag
The development of working-class consciousness requires more than struggles against the employer on the shopfloor, argues Marisa Miale. Reading: Mick Labas. The workplace is a …
The Class Struggle in Afghanistan and its Future
In light of the Taliban’s consolidation of power in response to U.S. withdrawal from the region, Rob Ashlar predicts not the foreclosure of class struggle …
Communism and the Disabled with Maddie and Jess
Rudy joins Maddie and Jess from Philly Socialists to discuss the politics of disability and its relationship with organizing. We discuss different models of disability …
On the Road to Power: A Conversation on Revolutionary Strategy in the USA
Katja and Jakob,聽based in Germany, have a discussion with our editor Alexander Gallus on a number of different issues, ranging from DSA and the Marxist …
Lifting the Double Burden: The Women鈥檚 Movement under State Socialism
Lydia, Agata, Anne and Rudy join for a discussion of Kristen Ghodsee’s聽Second World, Second Sex:聽Socialist Women’s Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War. We …
Ten Theses on the Gender Question
Roxy Hall makes an intervention into debates around transgender issues, critiquing both trans liberalism and anti-trans radical feminism to stake out a position that seeks …
The Genesis of the Transformation Problem
The infamous Transformation Problem has long stood as a supposed example of the failure of Marx’s economic theories. Ian Wright gives an explanation of the …
Communists and the Miners’ Upsurge with Mike Ely
Rudy and Annie join Mike Ely, a veteran of the Revolutionary Union and the wildcat strike movement in the West Virginia coalfields of the 1970s. …
The Procedural is Political
Renato Flores argues for a culture shift around meeting procedures that takes into account differing backgrounds to make our organizing spaces more accessible to everyone …
Give the Platform Legs to Stand: The Case for CB8
Parker McQueeney writes in support of Constitution/Bylaw Amendment 8 (CB8) for the 2021 DSA Convention At this year鈥檚 convention, DSA will be debating a political …
Grenada: Volcanic Memories and Stone Legacies of Revolution with Shalini Puri
Isaac and Rudy join Shalini Puri, author of The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory and the companion website urgentmemory.com, for a …
Letter: Comments on “Addiction is not a Crime”
Dear Cosmonaut Editors, I’m an anti-prohibition activist and I just finished, “Addiction is not a crime.” There were many things I liked about it, but …
The Introduction of Cybernetics in the GDR by J茅r么me Segal
Translation and introduction by Alexander Gallus. The reputation and legacy of cybernetics throughout the history of so-called AES/state socialist countries was fraught with controversy. The …
Democratic Representation, Not Bureaucratic Manipulation: Why DSA Needs Single Transferable Voting
Moira Madden and Adam I. Ascione D鈥橢lia make the case for standardizing Single Transferable Voting in DSA to ensure proportional representation and prevent opportunistic manipulations …