A Marxist Caucus of the Democratic Socialists of America
Bernie Sanders’ supporters recently swept the elections for the leadership of the Nevada state Democratic Party. The centrist machine took the money and ran. What does this reveal about the potential of a realignment strategy to reform the Democratic Party?
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.
“I believe I’m going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I’m going to die high off the people. I believe I’m going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.” The story …
I read The Package King: A Rank and File History of UPS while on my breaks during UPS’ peak season, the month between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I got the book as a birthday gift from my mother, herself a longtime …
The violent storming of Congress on January 6th, the culmination of Trump’s bid to steal the election, provoked a tidal wave of disgust. The potential still exists to mobilize popular outrage into mass action to drive back the right, and …
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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.
