Is Anywhere Safe?
A Socialist’s Response to Gun Violence By Rosemary Dodd The nation is reeling from a spate of mass shootings, including a racist rampage at a grocery store in Buffalo, NY, a massacre of school children and teachers in Uvalde, TX, …
Category: US Politics
How Liberals Lost the Fight For Abortion Rights
Unless we clearly understand the history of our defeats, and popularize those lessons to a mass audience, the ideological blinders of liberalism will drive our movements into more dead-ends. By Ty Moore The Supreme Court’s right-wing rampage, from overturning abortion …
The Inflation Rip-Off
How Workers Can Fight Inflation and Climate Change By Kip Hedges Going to the grocery store or driving to the gas station has become a stomach churning experience for tens of millions of workers in the United States. Inflation, at …
Dead Weight Democrats
DSA Must Distance Itself from the Democratic Party By Sean Case As the 2022 midterm elections approach, popular wisdom tells us that the Democratic Party is headed toward a bloodbath. Having failed to deliver on key campaign promises – from …
A New Mass Organization?
Jeremy Gong and Nick French call on Bernie Sanders and the Squad to launch a new “party-like” organization. It would be a welcome development if Bernie and Squad supporters launched a new mass organization with a membership based democracy. This …
“Our Platform was Strong on Public Safety”
Interview with Robin Wonsley Worlobah, newly elected socialist council member in Minneapolis By Kip Hedges, facebook.com/kip.hedges, Twitter @CWHedges15 Robin Wonsley Worlobah got elected to the city council in Minneapolis in November 2021. She ran as a DSA member and as …
Slicing and Dicing Democratic Rights
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 …
Build Back Never
How the Democrats Sabotaged Themselves By Alex Stout West Virginia Senator and coal baron Joe Manchin, along with other right-wing Democrats like Senator Kyrsten Sinema from Arizona, have sabotaged efforts to pass significant legislation to tackle climate change, child poverty …
Reviving Labor During The Big Burnout
The combination of a tight labor market, rising working class anger, and the growth in left militancy in some unions all point toward the huge potential to revitalize the labor movement. At the same time, the pandemic has exhausted and …
Amazon, We are Not Expendable
A Holiday Letter of Working Class Solidarity By Harris L, first published on the kickstarter page of “The Day The Elves Saved Christmas for Themselves”, a picture book about revolution at the North Pole I worked in Amazon warehouses for …