We publish a lot of articles. It’s easy to miss an important one. Here, we present some of our favorite articles from the month of August that you might have missed. Enjoy!
A Revolutionary Perspective for Puerto Rico
by Jimena Vergara
The resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosselló marked a victory for Puerto Rico’s popular uprising. Yet the Fiscal Control Board and the colonial regime remain. How can the island throw off the yoke of U.S. imperialism? What role could a Constituent Assembly play?
From Queer Struggle to Revolution
by Roberto Jara
In the last 35 years of LGBTQ+ struggle, we have won more rights. But we have also seen greater institutionalization, co-optation, fragmentation and depoliticization of the LGBTQ+ movement. How can we revolutionize the queer struggle?
Abolishing ICE is Not Enough. 5 Radical Demands to Address the Immigration Crisis
by Left Voice and Movimiento de los Trabajadores Socialistas (MTS)
While we need to fight tooth and nail to abolish ICE, this is not enough. Below we offer five urgent demands that all socialists should put forward to address the immigration crisis unfolding on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Six Things We Can Learn from the Socialist Left in Argentina
by Nathaniel Flakin
The Workers Left Front–Unity, a Trotskyist electoral coalition, got 700,000 votes on Sunday’s primary elections. Can this be a model for the left in other countries?
A Combined Struggle: Trotsky Explains Why We Need to Fight Imperialism in Mexico and in the U.S.
by Madeleine Freeman
On the anniversary of Trotsky’s death, we reexamine his writings from the final period of his life, which he spent in exile in Mexico. His observations about socialist strategy in semi-colonial countries and his conceptualization of the role that workers in imperialist countries play in the fight against imperialism have special relevance to socialists fighting against U.S. imperialism today.
