The Biden Years Will Open Big Opportunities for the Left
While the socialist left in the US remains relatively small and isolated, we’re entering this new period in a stronger position than we have in the last half century.
Year: 2020
Demand Democracy: A Socialist Program to Radically Expand Democratic Rights
DSA and its candidates should link calls to radically extend voting rights, abolish the Senate and the Electoral College, to the fight for democratic control over the economy.
Debate: “What are the Main Tasks for the Left after the Election?”
Revolutionary Socialists Discuss Strategy in Biden Era. Thanks to Left Voice, Philly Socialists and Tempest, who took the initiative to ask a number of caucuses in DSA and groups on the revolutionary socialist left to give their perspective on the …
Seattle DSA Debates Its Role in the Fight for Reparations
Socialists must strive to unite the working class by supporting the struggles of oppressed groups and workers against their oppression and exploitation, such as the demand for reparations, while targeting the capitalist ruling class who has a vested interest in reproducing racist oppression.
Averting Trump 2.0: The Left Must Build a Mass Political Alternative to Biden
It’s widely feared that Biden’s attempts to return to “normalcy” will pave the way for a potentially even more dangerous far-right demagogue than Trump. This places an urgent responsibility on the small but growing forces of the organized left to build a serious and fighting political alternative.
Covid-19: Big Pharma and the search for the vaccine
A second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic is sweeping across the world with countries recording record daily case numbers and the World Health Organisation (WHO) warning that the death toll could be much higher than during the first wave earlier this year.
Keep On Truckin’ With TDU During COVID
On Sunday November 8, members of Teamsters for a Democratic Union attended our 45th annual national convention. This year’s convention was a little different, given the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead of being held in Chicago over the course of three days, …
Listen to “US Election and Building Beyond” Podcast
Diarmuid from the Irish podcast Rupture Radio sat down with Ty Moore and MJ Lin of our Reform & Revolution caucus to discuss the US Election, how socialists should respond, whether Trump will resist a loss, and the prospects for …
The Corbyn Movement: What Path Forward for the Left?
Today, October 29, the Labour Party suspended its former leader Jeremy Corbyn. We stand in solidarity with Jeremy and reject the accusations that the Labour Party under his leadership was institutionally antisemitic. There is no basis for these accusations as …
The End of Neoliberalism?
Paul Murphy argues that while unorthodox monetary policy may be here to stay for the foreseeable future and globalisation is in retreat, capital’s need to restore profitability means that neoliberal fiscal policy will be harder to shake.