Reform & Revolution is the magazine of our Marxist caucus within Democratic Socialists of America. We launched R&R to contribute to the mass resurgence of socialist ideas in US society, and the growing interest in political thought, theory, and debate about the best way forward for our movement. In dialogue and collaboration with others, we aim to revitalize the ideas of revolutionary Marxism as a guide to action that unites our immediate struggles for reform with the urgent need for a socialist transformation of society.
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R&R Issue #16: Trump 2: Electric Boogaloo – January 2025 – read and download here
US Politics: Revolutionary Optimism In A World of Doom | DSA Must Move Decisively To Launch A New Party | DSA Electeds Must Lead The Resistance To Trump | Shock & Boogaloo: Perspectives For Trump’s Second Term
Anti-Imperialism: The New (Green, White, Black and) Red Scare
Labor: Trump’s Planned Attacks On Unions
Imperialist Economics: Electric Vehicles & The New Cold War |Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, And the Digital Military-Industrial Complex
R&R Issue #15: The New Cold War – August 2024 – read and download here
Historical Reflections: From the Cold War to Neoliberalism, and Back Again | Between 1968 And 2024
US Elections: Project 2025: A Blueprint for MAGA Authoritarianism?
Social Movements: What BLM Teaches Us About Palestine
Eco-Socialism: Nothing Left to Take: The Impact of War on Earth
International: The New Cold War and the Changing Crises of Neoliberalism
Debate: The Character of DSA Is Up To Us | DSA and the Road to a Mass Working-Class Party
Labor: To Labor Notes – And Beyond | The System is Rigged: Reform in the UFCW
R&R Issue #14: Cuba – February 2024 – read and download here
US Perspectives: Sleepwalking Into A Nightmare| Debate: The 2024
Elections and DSA – What
Is to Be Done?
War and Imperialism: An Unstable Age of
Imperialist Wars | Interview with Socialists
from Palestine and Israel | Word of the Quarter:
Intifada
Poem: Talking About Doing
Something
Labor: Interview: “Yes, it Is a
Union’s Place to Stand
Against US Genocidal
Foreign Policy” | Which Way Forward for
Labor’s Resurgence? | Keep on Cookin’: Lessons
from a Snuffed-Out Union
Campaign
Socialist Organizing: Book Review | Toward an
Ecology of Organization?
Socialist Feminism: Alexandra Kollontai:
A Portrait of a
Revolutionary
International: Cuba: Between
Imperialism and Socialism
R&R Issue #13: Lenin’s Legacy – December 2023 – read and download here
Palestine/Israel: Socialists & the Struggle
for Palestinian Liberation | Debate: How to Win
Working Class Unity?
Leninism Today: Book Review: Lenin
Between Catastrophes
and Revolution | The Legacy and Meaning
of the “Vanguard Party”
Renters Rights: Tacoma: “Grit City” Wins Strongest Tenant Protections in Washington State
Campaign for Trans and Reproductive Rights: Organizing a Fighting
DSA Campaign for Bodily
Autonomy | Ohio: How a Movement
Won Back Reproductive
Rights
Labor: Teamsters: Reform the
Reform Movement! | UAW’s Turning Point is a
Promise
US Politics: Know Your Enemy:
Fascism in the US
Art and Culture: Resisting Climate Despair
International: PSOL Heatedly Debates
Relationship to Lula
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
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
Imperialism: Understanding the Invasion of Ukraine
US Politics: 2022 Midterms: Red Ripple, Blue Stagnation
Labor: Mind Your Assumptions – Interview With Joe Burns | Labor Dictionary – “Peppering”
DSA: The Vote To Ban the Railway Strike: A Crisis Made by Opportunism | 1-2-3-4 Steps of Accountability | DSA & Elected Officials: An Interview With Robin Wonsley
Towards New Left Formations: France – New Hope and New Debates For the Left | Denmark – Electoralism Drags Down Red-Green Alliance | Brazil – Bolsonaro Beaten, but Bolsonarism Still a Threat
International: Mass Uprising Continues To Shake Iran
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 – May 2022 – 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
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 | The Left’s Difficulty Responding to Russia’s War on Ukraine | For a Nuanced Anti-Imperialism of Solidarity | Where Is the Opposition to Washington’s Warriors? | Was Lenin a Campist?
DSA: Should DSA Organize a Special Convention? – A Debate | “What the Heck is Trotskyism, Anyway?”
R&R Issue #7: Reviving Labor During The Big Burnout – March 2022 – read and download here
Socialist Feminism: A Battle over Roe v Wade? | Literary Omission
Anti-Racism: Voting Rights: Slicing And Dicing Democratic Rights
Eco-Socialism: Green Imperialism: The Latest Stage of Capitalism
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: Their Exit Plan and Ours: The Case For Eco-Socialism – September 2021 – read and download here
Imperialism: Afghanistan: Historic Defeat for US Imperialism
DSA: DSA Convention: A Movement on the March – but Serious Challenges Ahead | An Alternative Take on the DSA Convention | Who’s Who in DSA: A Guide to DSA Caucuses
Feminism: Wining the Rich to Choose — Then and Now
Climate Justice: 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 – A Graphical Illustration | 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: Biden’s Paradigm Shift: A Neoliberal After Neoliberalism – May 2021 – read and download here
Building DSA: The Road from Nevada | Resolutions: Putting the Break in the Dirty Break | Platform: Let’s Talk about Building Power
Covid-19: COVID Shines a Light on Women’s Struggles | A Strategy to Eradicate Covid-19 – an interview with Paul Murphy
US Politics: The K-Shaped Recovery: The rich got richer, the rest of us got screwed | Biden’s Lost Paradigm: The End of Neoliberalism
Theory and Debate: Done Right, Mutual Aid Builds Working-Class Power | Women and Nature: Towards an Ecosocialist Feminism
R&R Issue 4 – Taking Steps Towards A Dirty Break – January 2021 – read and download here
US Politics: The Biden Years Will Open Big Opportunities for the Left | A Socialist Program to Radically Expand Democratic Rights
Building DSA: Winning a Dirty Break Under Biden
Debates and Interviews: Revolutionary Socialists Debate Strategy for Biden Era | Democratic Socialist Break Dance: Interviews with National DSA leaders Maikiko James, Andy Sernatinger, and Austin Gonzalez
The Corbyn Movement 2015-2020: What Path Forward for the British Left? | Interview with Dave Hill | John Mclnally Urges “No Capitulation to Starmer’s Witch-Hunt
R&R Issue 3 – The Capitalist State & Socialist Strategy – September 2020 – read and download here
This Moment: The Uprising and the Challenge Facing Socialists
Uprising For Black Lives: Unreformable: Police & the Capitalist State | Seattle’s Police-Free Zone | Labor Chooses Black Lives Over Blue Solidarity
Politics & Theory: COVID-19 and the Racist Disparities Fueling the Uprising | Working-Class Power and the Road to Socialism: A Review of Bigger Than Bernie
Debate – Socialists & The Election: 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 – The Socialist Case for Impeachment- November 2019 – read and download here
US Politics: The Socialist Case for Impeachment | Who’s Afraid of Elizabeth Warren
Socialism Rising: DSA Sets Goal of a “Dirty Break” with the Democratic Party | Neighborhood DSA Group Grows by Centering Politics
Socialist Feminism: Review: Feminism for the 99% | Which Way Forward for the Feminist Movement Today?
International: Puerto Rican Protestors Get the Goods
Labor: LA Teachers Strike Wins Big
Reviews: Fighting for Trans Rights | Letter to the Editor – “Accuracy Please”
R&R Issue 1 – Trump’s Socialist Nightmare- June 2019 read and download here
Feature: Trump’s Socialist Nightmare | Debate: Socialists, Bernie, and the 2020 Election Socialist Uprising in the Democratic Party? | Socialist Uprising In the Democratic Party?
Resistance: Socialist Feminism: From #MeToo to Revolutionary Change | Black Liberation: The Socialist Case for Reparations | Green New Deal: How to Overcome Fossil Fuel Power
Labor: Book Review: No Shortcuts by Jane McAlevey | Educators Strike Wave: Lessons Learned | Is it possible to build a union at Amazon?
International: The Spectre of Public Housing is Haunting Berlin | Venezuela: Stop Trump’s Coup
Art & Revolution: Frida Kahlo and Revolution