Escaping the Labour Left ‘Safety Valve’: Towards Dual Power in Britain
Is the UK Labour Party a possible vehicle for working-class emancipation? Alfie Hancox argues in the negative, posing the regroupment of communists independent of the …
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Attic Communists of the Netherlands
Parker and Alex join Emil Jacobs of the Socialist Party of the Netherlands to discuss the factional struggle and expulsion of the Communist Platform group. …
A Twelve-Step Program for Democrat Addiction
Ben Grove lays out a twelve-step program for the Democratic Socialists of America to pursue a path of independent working-class politics. Reading: Christian Cail. Cheer …
Without a party, we have nothing
Donald Parkinson responds to Taylor B’s Beginning’s of Politics: DSA and the Uprising, arguing that a workers’ party is necessary to advance an emancipatory politics. Reading: …
Beginnings of Politics: DSA and the Uprising
Writing in August, Taylor B argues that we must look to new emancipatory forces arising in the current conjuncture instead of seeking to impose older …
Revolutionary Parliamentarism with August Nimtz
Parker and Peter join August Nimtz, the author of Lenin’s Electoral Strategy (now reprinted as The Ballot, The Streets– or Both) to discuss how Lenin …
US Constitution: Hiding in Plain Sight
Daniel Lazare writes on the US Constitution, its inherent contradictions, and why socialists should oppose it. In order to theorize the United States, socialists must …
From Trade-Union Consciousness to Socialist Consciousness with Chris Townsend
Three of our writers are joined by veteran union organizer Chris Townsend for a podcast discussion on labor organizing across history and in the present …
Of Course Labor Law Advances the Class Struggle
Anton Johannsen argues that labor law is a terrain of class struggle that can only be ignored at our own peril. Nick Walter, labor organizer, …
The Past and Future of Socialist Labor with Adolph Reed and Ed Bruno
In this special edition of Cosmopod’s ongoing labor interview and history series, Remi is joined by two legends of the US socialist labor scene: Adolph …
The Practical Policy of Revolutionary Defeatism
Matthew Strupp lays out the politics of revolutionary defeatism in contrast to the approaches of third-campism and third-worldism. Reading: Cliff Connolly. In April 1964, at a …
The End of the End of History: COVID-19 and 21st Century Fascism
Debs Bruno and Medway Baker lay out the conditions of the current crisis, the political potentials it opens up, and the need for a socialist …
Between Friend and Foe: The Democratic Party Primary and the Future of the Empire
Rosa Janis analyzes the Democratic Party Primary election as the symptoms of a dying empire that couldn’t die quite soon enough. With the Democratic Party …