A Marxist Caucus of the Democratic Socialists of America
By Meg Morrigan Breaking the Hegemony of Fatalism in the Face of the Climate Crisis and Capitalist Decline – with Solarpunk and Acid Communism The world is careening towards climate catastrophe at ever-increasing rates. The overwhelming sense that there is …
By Meg Morrigan “What rolls through on those trucks is of more value than the lives of the residents in this community.” With this quote, a resident of East Palestine, Ohio perfectly sums up the causes and response to the …
Book Review | Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now by Jenny Brown By Meg Morrigan Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now was published in October 2019 as part of a collaboration series of books between Jacobin Magazine and Verso Books, …
The Racist History of Voter Suppression By Meg Morrigan According to the Brennan Center, a progressive institute in New York, 2021 was a banner year for voter restriction legislation. There were more than 440 bills introduced in 49 states that …
McKay’s decision to use an impending comet as his metaphor for climate change in his new film Don’t Look Up is incredibly effective.
Despite the unconfirmed Wuhan lab leak theories, most scientists believe that COVID-19 came to humans from animals. Whatever the final prognosis is on COVID-19, many other diseases in recent memory, like H1N1, SARS, and Ebola, have spread to humans through …
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.
There is more reason than ever to replace private insurance with a single-payer, Medicare for All system, and masses of people must rally around the bill to show Congress that we demand health care. However, to fully meet the health care needs of all working and poor people, socialists must go much further and raise the need for every aspect of the medical industry to be taken under public and democratic ownership, removing the corrupting influence of the profit motive from everything from hospitals to pharmaceuticals.
This is a cynical attempt by Trump to undermine Republican lawmakers who refuse to sanction his conspiracy, to weaken their political standing among their constituencies, and set the stage to levy challenges against them in the 2022 primaries.
