Ezra Brain
January 23, 2022
The Fight for Socialism After a Year of Malarkey
Tatiana Cozzarelli
January 20, 20222022 Must Mark a New Stage for the Climate Movement
Sam Carliner
January 11, 2022
Let Us Turn Our Anger at Biden Into Organization
Ezra Brain
January 23, 2022Michigan Activists Picket Fake Abortion Clinic
Jessica Prozinski
January 23, 2022
Femicides in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, Spark Widespread Outrage
Earlier this week, two young women were found dead on the Juárez-Porvenir highway in Mexico. Relatives had reported the lesbian couple missing two days earlier. The prosecutor’s office is denying it was a hate crime.
Isabel Vega
January 22, 2022
What Student Activists Walking Out Over Covid Safety Can Learn From Student Movements Around the World
There is a long international history of student strikes. The recent student movements in Chile, Brazil, and elsewhere can offer ideas and inspiration to the thousands of K-12 students organizing school walkouts to demand remote learning and other safety protocols during the current Covid wave.
Rose Lemlich
January 22, 2022CUNY’s Reopening Plan Is a Nightmare for Adjuncts and Students
A CUNY Adjunct Faculty Member
January 22, 2022The Right to Vote Is a Conquest of the Working Class. That’s Why We Defend It
Scott Cooper
January 22, 2022Mass Action Will Protect and Expand Our Abortion Rights, Not Politicians and PACs
Cal Berry
January 22, 2022Multinational in Peru Makes the Environmental Disaster Caused by Oil Spill Even Worse
Cecilia Quiroz
January 22, 2022One Year Later: Biden Is Still No Friend of Labor
James Dennis Hoff
January 21, 2022
Let Us Turn Our Anger at Biden Into Organization
Across the country, people are taking to social media to share their frustration with the Biden government. While this airing of anger is natural, it isn’t enough. We need to organize against the Biden administration.
Ezra Brain
January 23, 2022
Michigan Activists Picket Fake Abortion Clinic
On the 49th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade legalizing abortion across the United States, and with abortion rights under concerted attack in many states, a group of activists picketed a fake clinic in Michigan.
Jessica Prozinski
January 23, 2022What Student Activists Walking Out Over Covid Safety Can Learn From Student Movements Around the World
Rose Lemlich
January 22, 2022CUNY’s Reopening Plan Is a Nightmare for Adjuncts and Students
A CUNY Adjunct Faculty Member
January 22, 2022The Right to Vote Is a Conquest of the Working Class. That’s Why We Defend It
Scott Cooper
January 22, 2022Mass Action Will Protect and Expand Our Abortion Rights, Not Politicians and PACs
Cal Berry
January 22, 2022Is America Back? Biden and Imperialist Decline
Sou Mi
January 20, 2022
Imperialist Backed Airstrike in Yemen Kills At Least 70 People
Yemen, the site of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in recent history, continues to be devastated by a proxy war backed by U.S. imperialism. The latest attack shows the urgency of confronting the geopolitical and imperialist interests that have created this unimaginable human crisis.
Maryam Alaniz
January 22, 2022Femicides in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, Spark Widespread Outrage
Earlier this week, two young women were found dead on the Juárez-Porvenir highway in Mexico. Relatives had reported the lesbian couple missing two days earlier. The prosecutor’s office is denying it was a hate crime.
Isabel Vega
January 22, 2022Multinational in Peru Makes the Environmental Disaster Caused by Oil Spill Even Worse
Cecilia Quiroz
January 22, 2022From Chile to Greece: Neoreformist Government and Revolutionary Opposition
Fabián Puelma
January 18, 2022Eleanor Marx: A Punk in the 19th Century
Celeste Murillo
January 16, 2022Why “Partygate” Threatens to Bring Down UK Prime Minister
Ezra Brain
January 16, 2022Massive Demonstrations in Mali Against ECOWAS Strengthen Ruling Junta
Philippe Alcoy
January 16, 2022Let Us Turn Our Anger at Biden Into Organization
Across the country, people are taking to social media to share their frustration with the Biden government. While this airing of anger is natural, it isn’t enough. We need to organize against the Biden administration.
Ezra Brain
January 23, 2022One Year Later: Biden Is Still No Friend of Labor
James Dennis Hoff
January 21, 2022The Problem of Wanting Biden to “Succeed”
Adnan Ahmed
January 20, 2022Is America Back? Biden and Imperialist Decline
Sou Mi
January 20, 2022The Fight for Socialism After a Year of Malarkey
Tatiana Cozzarelli
January 20, 2022The Democrats Aren’t Bad at Politics. Their Politics Are Bad
Otto Fors
January 19, 2022
“I Am A Man”: MLK and the Memphis Sanitation Strike
Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in Memphis, TN. He was there supporting striking sanitation workers.
Madeleine Freeman
January 17, 2022
“We’re Not All Here”: Why We Must Fight To Free Political Prisoners in 2022
As we enter 2022, many activists from BLM and other movements face years in prison. We must build a movement to demand their freedom, both to protect those specific people and to defend against state attacks on our movements in general.
Ezra Brain
January 2, 2022Kim Potter Murdered Daunte Wright: We Must Mobilize for A Guilty Verdict and Against the Racist System
Adnan Ahmed
December 1, 2021Let This Radicalize You
Tatiana Cozzarelli
November 21, 2021Private Cops in Uptown Minneapolis — Another Tool to Maintain the Racist-Capitalist System
Adnan Ahmed
July 22, 2021A Woke Mural and Black Dolls: How Target Hides Its Racism
Adnan Ahmed
July 8, 2021Murder of Winston Smith and Future of George Floyd Square – State Violence Continues in Minneapolis
Adnan Ahmed
June 10, 2021
DSA: The Left Wing of the Possible
The Democratic Socialists of America are holding their convention August 1–8.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
July 25, 2021Michael Harrington’s Failure of Vision
Left Voice
July 25, 2021Cuba: Causes and Consequences of July 11
Claudia Cinatti
July 25, 2021Against the McDonalds of Pleasure
Left Voice
June 6, 2021The Neoliberal Fracturing of LGBTQ+ Identities
Left Voice
June 6, 2021
One Year Later: Biden Is Still No Friend of Labor
Joe Biden claims to be one of the most pro-labor presidents to ever hold office, but while he has talked a good game, he has conspicuously failed to deliver for working people and unions. Worse, Biden’s embrace of labor was and remains a cynical, and so far highly successful, attempt to co-opt and further tie unions to the Democratic Party.
James Dennis Hoff
January 21, 2022
CUNY Rank-and-File Activists Fight for Safe Reopening
At the City University of New York (CUNY) tens of thousands of students are petitioning for more online classes, and in-person sections are getting canceled left and right due to low enrollment, leading dozens of part-time faculty to lose their jobs. Dissatisfied with the union leadership’s response, rank-and-file union members are taking matters into their own hands.
Left Voice
January 21, 2022Mine Workers in Peru Protest Over Covid-19 Infections
La Izquierda Diario Péru
January 19, 2022“I Want to Thank the Staff That Held the Line”: Interview with a Chicago Teacher
Left Voice
January 17, 2022The Jewish Museum in New York Joins the Fight for a Unionized Art World
Sarah Frankie Sigman
January 12, 2022Two Stores and Counting: Starbucks Unionization Wave Picks Up
Rose Lemlich
January 11, 2022“I Can’t Afford Not to Work”: Workers on the Omicron Surge
Left Voice
January 11, 2022
Eleanor Marx: A Punk in the 19th Century
Eleanor Marx, the youngest daughter of Karl Marx and herself a socialist activist, was born on this day in 1855. A citizen of the world, she resonated with Shelley and Ibsen and participated in the main theoretical and political debates of her time.
Celeste Murillo
January 16, 2022
This 50-Year-Old Film from East Germany Shows the Last Days of Karl Liebknecht
Karl Liebknecht was murdered 103 years ago. The East German biopic "In Spite of Everything" premiered 50 years ago today and shows his final days.
Nathaniel Flakin
January 14, 2022Why Are There So Few Large Strikes? Blame the Democratic Party
Jason Koslowski
December 7, 2021Today in History: Soviet Partisan Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya Is Executed by Nazis
Paula Schaller
November 29, 2021Blueprint for a Strike in the Entertainment Industry: Lessons from the 2007 WGA Strike
Cal Berry
November 5, 2021The Fall of Lehman Brothers and the Rise of Class Struggle
Arturo Méndez
September 18, 2021Bring Back the Spirit of Occupy
Emma Lee
September 18, 2021
Ireland and Argentina Won Abortion Rights through Struggle. Protecting Our Rights Here Won’t Be Any Different
Abortion rights are under threat in the United States. As the abortion movements in Ireland and Argentina have shown, the right to free, safe, and legal abortions can only be won through combative action and mass mobilization in the streets.
Emma Lee
December 11, 2021
A TERF-Far Right Alliance Has Launched a New Transphobic Onslaught
In view of the increasing number of reactionary articles in the press and other public statements of that ilk, this article proposes a short guide to survival in transphobic territory — with a focus on Britain, the United States, and France.
Julian Vile
December 7, 2021“Abortion Pills Forever” Misses the Point
Tatiana Cozzarelli
December 6, 2021The IMF Is a Weapon Against Women — They Have the Power to Fight Against It
Andrea D'Atri
November 30, 2021A Patriarchal Stereotype Sustains the Capitalist System: The “Inferior, Submissive Woman”
Scilla Di Pietro
November 29, 2021Healthcare Workers Must Join the Fight for Trans Liberation
Mike Pappas
November 20, 2021We Must Build a Mass Movement for Trans Rights
Ezra Brain
November 20, 2021
As Inflation Rises, Workers Have Options for Struggle
As inflation courses through the U.S. economy, the ruling class is responding with higher interest rates and other steps aimed at keeping wages lower for the workers who bear the brunt of price hikes. What demands should workers raise to fight the latest capitalist attacks on our standard of living?
Scott Cooper
January 5, 2022
Capitalist Bonanza: Share Buybacks Reached Record High in 2021
Share buybacks hit a record high in 2021, enriching investors and executives at the expense of the working class.
Otto Fors
January 4, 2022The Democratic Party and Capitalism’s Economic Contradictions
Jason Koslowski
November 27, 2021Tariffs to Fight Climate Change? It’s a Capitalist Ruse
Scott Cooper
November 6, 2021Job Growth or Job Decline, It’s All About Capitalist Exploitation
Scott Cooper
October 11, 2021Snap Canadian Elections Change Nothing
Michael Roberts
September 22, 2021Competition, Monopoly, and Exploitation under Capitalism
Michael Roberts
July 17, 2021
Multinational in Peru Makes the Environmental Disaster Caused by Oil Spill Even Worse
A volcanic eruption in the Tonga Sea caused an oil spill in Peru on Saturday, January 15, and the effects on the coastal area have been severe. The bosses have turned a blind eye, and the Peruvian government has not acted with the necessary speed.
Cecilia Quiroz
January 22, 2022
The Movement to Shut Down Red Hill Forced a Concession from the U.S. Navy. The Fight Continues.
The U.S. Navy has made a first concession to the demands of the movement to shut down Red Hill. Water protectors understand that their fight must continue. The larger climate movement, the working class, and oppressed people must maintain solidarity.
Sam Carliner
January 12, 2022Labor Unions, Environmentalists, and Indigenous People Unite to Defeat Mining Interests in Argentina
Marisela Trevin
December 27, 2021The U.S. Navy Poisoned Hawaii’s Water — and Covered It Up
Sam Carliner
December 9, 2021Waste Imperialism and the Trash Crisis in Tunisia
Emma Lee
November 17, 2021Biden and the Democrats Have Given Up on Meaningful Climate Action
Robert Belano
November 10, 2021COP26 Pledges Reveal Capitalism’s Refusal to Solve the Climate Crisis
Sam Carliner
November 7, 2021
Revolutionary Campaign for French Presidency Launched in Paris
More than 450 people rallied last night in Paris to launch the Anasse Kazib 2022 campaign for the French presidency. It was an electric, revolutionary atmosphere with guests from working-class struggles giving fiery speeches, interspersed with slogans chanted by the entire room.
Paul Morao
October 21, 2021Global Climate Strike S24: Capitalism Is Destroying the Planet — Let’s Destroy Capitalism!
Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International
September 23, 2021Sixty-Five People at the RIO Summer Camp in Germany: Revolutionary Regroupment, Not Participation with the Government
Marius Rautenberg
September 11, 2021Why Is the New Anticapitalist Party in France Trying to Kick Out its Left Wing?
Nathaniel Flakin
June 10, 2021
“It Feels Like Everything in the Hospital Is Breaking Down”: Interview with a Medical Resident in the Bronx
A medical resident in the Bronx spoke with Left Voice about how the global pandemic exposed long-standing issues in the U.S. healthcare system, and why healthcare workers must support each other.
Left Voice
January 19, 2022
A Tale of Two Tiers: Lessons from the Kellogg Strike
Kellogg cereal workers waged one of the most important strikes of 2021, but the union bureaucracy’s declarations of victory are misleading. Not only does the new contract fail to end the two-tier wage system, it opens the door to even greater exploitation of new hires.
Daniel Werst
January 3, 2022All Out for Wedzin Kwa: Interview with a Leader of the Gidimt’en Checkpoint
Left Voice
December 16, 2021A Tucson Cop Murdered A Disabled Man in A Wheelchair
Daniel Werst
December 12, 2021Historic Union Vote at Starbucks
John Leslie
December 8, 2021Michigan Activists Shut Down Legislature to Read Statement on Abortion
Jessica Prozinski
December 7, 2021Factory Workers Strike against Poverty Pay, Abuse by Management at Rich Products Plant in L.A. Area
Edgar Reyes
November 28, 2021
