Poulantzas and The Socialist Challenge Today
An evaluation of the ideas that Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin put forward in their book The Socialist Challenge Today, as an application of Nicos Poulantzas’s approach to the current challenges on the left
Year: 2021
DSA Takes Over the Nevada Democratic Party: Two Hot Takes from Bread & Roses and Reform & Revolution
Jeremy Gong and Peter Lucas from DSA’s Bread and Roses caucus wrote an excellent article, “Socialists Should Fight the Corporate Democratic Party, Not Manage It” about 5 Nevada DSA members who won the elections in March to lead the Nevada …
Why Does No One Want To Work?
The last year has illuminated the shadowy corners of the reality of work in the US, and there are many reasons why few people are ready to jump on the bandwagon back to the pre-COVID status quo.
Biden’s “Paradigm Change”
The End of Neoliberalism and the Difficulty of Developing a New, Stable Regime of Capital Accumulation “It changes the paradigm,” Joe Biden said on March 12, celebrating the passing of the $1.9 trillion stimulus package in Congress. “For the first …
Three Challenges for the Left
This editorial by Ty Moore seeks to outline three major challenges facing the Left under the Biden administration
A Strategy to Eradicate COVID-19
Paul Murphy is a member of the Irish Parliament elected in 2014 on the basis of his firm opposition to the government’s attempts to impose water charges. Alongside 27 other activists, he was charged with the False Imprisonment of Joan Burton at a water charges protest in 2014. However, the #JobstownNotGuilty campaign proved victorious — 7 defendants were found not guilty, the attack on the right to protest was defeated, and the trumped up charges against all the other activists were dismissed. Paul is also a member of RISE (Revolutionary Internationalist, Socialist, Environmentalist), which is a network of People Before Profit, Ireland’s eco-socialist party. RISE is also the Irish sister organization in political solidarity with DSA’s Reform & Revolution caucus. Alex Moni-Sauri from Reform & Revolution spoke with him about a socialist strategy for eradicating COVID-19.
Done Right, Mutual Aid Builds Working-Class Power
If DSA avoids approaching mutual aid as a prefigurative project, designed to bypass a direct struggle for political power, socialists can help connect working people’s self-organization for immediate survival needs to an effective strategy to win socialism.
Issue #5 Released: Biden’s ‘Paradigm Change’
We have completed issue #5 of the Reform & Revolution magazine! Subscribers will receive the latest copy of the Marxist magazine in the mail in the next few weeks. In this issue, we analyze the biggest questions facing DSA and …
DSA’s Platform Draft: Let’s Talk about Building Power
DSA’s draft platform is a good starting point to unite our broad, multi-tendency, democratic socialist organization in the fight for socialism. It would be stronger if it outlined how the working class can build the power to get there.
Women and Nature: Towards an Ecosocialist Feminism
This article examines the connection between the exploitation of women and of nature under capitalism. Jess Spear argues against ecofeminism that says “that women’s connection to nature is rooted in their reproductive biology.” She makes the case that “[t]he essentialism …