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R&R Issue #12: DSA & a New Mass Workers Party // Trans Liberation – August 2023
DSA: Time for a New Leadership of DSA | Who’s Who in DSA: A Guide to DSA Caucuses | Put Independence into Action | Envisioning the Future of YDSA | Debate: Should DSA endorse Cornel West?
Trans Liberation: Equality and Freedom | Florida Is Worth Fighting
Marxist Dictionary: Social Reproduction
Labor: Yes, You Can Organize Your Restaurant
Eco-Socialism: Preserving the Radical Beauty of the Green New Deal
International New Left Formations: Podemos’s Broken Promise | Maintaining Independence
from Lula
R&R Issue #11: Socialist Perspectives, Prophecies and Predictions – May 2023 – read & download here
In this issue:
Prophecies, Predictions, perspectives: Politics of the Stars | US Perspectives: Sustained Pessimism
DSA: Staff-Driven Socialists of America? | Socialist Anti-Militarism and the War in Ukraine
Labor: Ditch the Tip | What’s behind the Big Tech layoffs? | Labor at the Supreme Court: “The Right to Strike Means Very Little if you Can be Sued for Exercising it”
Eco-Socialism: Capitalism Off The Rails
Marxism and Abolition: A Rupture with the Capitalist Police
Peru: Missed Opportunity – The Rise and Fall of Pedro Castillo
R&R Issue #10: The Challenges for Building New Left Formations in the US and Internationally – January 2023 – read & download here
In magazine #10, we look at the background of the Ukraine war and the tasks for socialists in the US to take a pro-working class stance, completely independent of Biden and the Democrats approach. We analyze the situation after the Midterm elections and reflect on the stage of labor in the US with an interview with the author of Class Struggle Unionism, Joe Burns.
The main focus is on the developments of new left formations.
In the US, we look at the railway strike vote where three of DSA´s four elected officials in Congress voted in favor of banning a strike. We look at the debates in DSA New York City, where the attempts to implement more accountability of elected officials through the “1-2-3-4” resolution failed, but still outlined some of the steps needed also in other parts of the country and on a national level. We spoke with Robin Wonsley, DSA City Council member in Minneapolis, about her approach to building working-class power.
And we have reports about the challenges for new left formations in France, in Brazil and in Denmark. An article about the ongoing revolt in Iran finalizes the international outlook of this edition of our magazine.
R&R Issue #9: Overturning Roe: A Decision They Will Regret! – September 2022 – read & download here
Rebuilding Labor: Starbucks Workers Intensify Campaign || A Class Struggle Strategy to Win a Union at Homegrown
US Politics: The Inflation Rip-Off, DSA and the Democrats: How to Break Free?
Socialist Feminism: After Roe: Seeing Red || How Liberalism Lost the Fight for Abortion Rights
Culture Wars: Is Anywhere Safe? A Socialist Response to Gun Violence
Eco-Socialism: Climate Change Will Trigger A Migration Crisis || Book Review: Climate Change as Class War
Brazil: The Struggle to Defeat Neofascism and the Reorganization of the Left
R&R Issue #8: Anti-Imperialism Today – read & download here
Rebuilding Labor: Starbucks: Interviews with Baristas James Skretta, Buffalo and Katie McCoy, Marysville | What the Labor Movement Can Learn from the Amazon Labor Union’s Victory | A Response to R&R´s Position on the Rank & File Strategy by Ryan Mosgrove
Socialist Feminism: Book Review: Without Apology – The Abortion Struggle Now | A Call to Action for Trans Rights
Eco-Socialism: Debate: Should Socialists Argue for Degrowth?
The Debate in DSA on Anti-Imperialism: A Reckoning with US Meddling by Grayson Lanza | The Left’s Difficulty Responding to Russia’s War on Ukraine by Dan La Botz | For a Nuanced Anti-Imperialism of Solidarity by Sam Heft-Luthy | Where Is the Opposition to Washington’s Warriors? by Alex Stout | Was Lenin a Campist?
DSA: Should DSA Organize a Special Convention? – A Debate | “What the Heck is Trotskyism, Anyway?”
R&R Issue #7 – Read and download here
SOCIALIST FEMINISM
– A Battle over Roe v Wade?
– Literary Omission
ANTI-RACISM
– Voting Rights
ECO-SOCIALISM
– Green Imperialism
HOUSING
– Berlin: Expropriate the Big Landlords
REBUILDING LABOR
– The Big Burnout
– Generation Bernie hits Starbucks
– Return of the Teamsters
– Salting – Should You Do It?
– A Socialist Rank and File Strategy
DSA & LABOR
– A Practical Guide to Strike Solidarity
BUILDING DSA
– DSA: Stuck at an Impasse
– Build Back Never
– Interview with Robin Wonsley Worlobah
R&R Issue #6 – Read and download here
- Winning an Eco-Socialist Future
- Afghanistan: Historic Defeat for US Imperialism
- DSA Convention: A Movement on the March — but Serious Challenges Ahead
- An Alternative Take on the DSA Convention — By David Duhalde
- Who’s Who in DSA: A Guide to DSA Caucuses
- Wining the Rich to Choose — Then and Now
- Biden’s False Promise of Eco-Capitalism
- A Bright Future’s in Sight — A Poem
- What is Eco-Socialism?
- Book Review: “Nationalization is Our Best Option to Decarbonize”
- A Message from the State
- Eco-Socialists Join Forces with Unions to Push the PRO ACT
- Three Steps for Labor to Win a Green New Deal
- A Green New Deal for Housing
- Animal Agriculture is Very Sick
- Book Review: How to Blow up a Pipeline
R&R Issue #5 – download
- The Road from Nevada
- Resolutions: Putting the Break in the Dirty Break
- Platform: Let’s Talk about Building Power
- COVID Shines a Light on Women’s Struggles
- A Strategy to Eradicate Covid-19 – an interview with Paul Murphy
- The K-Shaped Recovery: The rich got richer, the rest of us got screwed
- Biden’s “Paradigm Change”
- Done Right, Mutual Aid Builds Working-Class Power
- Women and Nature: Towards an Ecosocialist Feminism
R&R Issue #4 – download
- The Biden Years Will Open Big Opportunities for the Left
- A Socialist Program to Radically Expand Democratic Rights
- Winning a Dirty Break Under Biden
- Revolutionary Socialists Debate Strategy for Biden Era
- Democratic Socialist Break Dance: Interviews with National DSA leaders Maikiko James, Andy Sernatinger, and Austin Gonzalez.
- What Path Forward for the British Left? Interview with Dave Hill
- John Mclnally Urges “No Capitulation to Starmer’s With-Hunt”
R&R Issue #3 – download
- The Uprising and the Challenge Facing Socialists
- Unreformable: Police & the Capitalist State
- Seattle’s Police-Free Zone
- Labor Chooses Black Lives Over Blue Solidarity
- COVID-19 and the Racist
- Disparities Fueling the Uprising
- Working-Class Power and the Road to Socialism: A Review of Bigger Than Bernie
- Resolution to Seattle DSA
- DSA Should Not Support Howie Hawkins
- DSA Should Oppose Biden and Recommend a Vote for Hawkins in Safe States
R&R Issue #2 – download
- The Socialist Case for Impeachment
- Who’s Afraid of Elizabeth Warren
- DSA Sets Goal of a “Dirty Break” with the Democratic Party
- Neighborhood DSA Group Grows by Centering Politics
- Review: Feminism for the 99%
- Which Way Forward for the Feminist Movement Today?
- Puerto Rican Protestors Get the Goods
- LA Teachers Strike Wins Big
- Fighting for Trans Rights
- Letter to the Editor
R&R Issue #1 – download
- Trump’s Socialist Nightmare
- Debate: Socialists, Bernie, and the 2020 Election Socialist Uprising in the Democratic Party?
- Socialist Feminism: From #MeToo to Revolutionary Change
- Black Liberation: The Socialist Case for Reparations
- Green New Deal: How to Overcome Fossil Fuel Power
- Book Review: No Shortcuts by Jane McAlevey
- Educators Strike Wave: Lessons Learned
- Is it possible to build a union at Amazon?
- The Spectre of Public Housing is Haunting Berlin
- Venezuela: Stop Trump’s Coup
- Frida Kahlo and Revolution