
Jimena Vergara
Jimena is an author of the collection "Mexico en Llamas" and lives and works in New York City.
Scabs Will Not Pass: Defend the UAW Strike With Organized Grassroots Power
The Big Three are escalating their use of scabs. The rank and file are fighting back.
Jimena Vergara
September 27, 2023Not Syriza, Not Podemos, But a Working-Class Party Fighting for Socialism
What lessons can U.S. socialists draw from the experiences of Syriza, Podemos, and other broad left parties? Nathaniel Flakin and Jimena Vergara of Left Voice respond to Andrew Sernatinger of Tempest.
Jimena Vergara
April 18, 2023Understanding the Global Context of the Ukrainian Conflict: A Response to Our Critics
The 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the massive rearmament of Europe that followed mark a new stage in a growing conflict that has become a proxy war between the imperialist states of the US and NATO on one side, and an emerging alliance between Russia and China on the other. While some on the Left see this new pole of Russia and China as a check against US imperialism, neither country is anti-imperialist, and neither has anything progressive to offer working people.
Jimena Vergara
March 16, 2023The Congressional Vote to Quash the Rail Strike Shows That We Need a Party of Our Own
The congressional intervention to bust a possible railroad strike with the complicity of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party was a blow to the labor movement as a whole and a wake-up call for the socialist Left in America. Indignation and denunciation are not enough. It is fundamental to break with the Democratic Party and build a party of the working class and for the working class that genuinely fights for socialism.
Jimena Vergara
December 22, 2022The Midterm Elections and the Fight for the Working Class
Republicans and Democrats are trying to win the working class vote on Tuesday, but neither party represents workers’ interests. Socialists must take advantage of the hunger for reform and fight for independent politics and build the party we need: a working-class party with a socialist strategy.
Jimena Vergara
November 7, 2022Afghanistan: Biden Eulogizes Another Humiliating Defeat for U.S. Imperialism
President Joe Biden gave a fervent speech on Monday justifying his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan to end the longest war in U.S. history. The speech was met with criticism from sectors of both capitalist parties who believe that the decision is a blow to U.S. credibility and power globally.
Jimena Vergara
August 17, 2021The Concept of Hegemony Goes Beyond Identity Politics and Economism
Left Voice's own Jimena Vergara sits down with Argentinian Marxist and Trotskyist Fraction member Juan Dal Maso to discuss his latest book, "Hegemony and Class Struggle: Trotsky, Gramsci, and Marxism."
Jimena Vergara
August 14, 2021Elections in Chile: Establishment Parties Suffer, and Revolutionaries Get 50,000 Votes
In the elections this weekend in Chile, voter turnout was low. Many people voted against the government and the political heirs of the dictatorship. Revolutionary workers had an impressive showing.
Jimena Vergara
May 18, 2021Class Struggle in the Biden Era
Now is the time for bold working-class action, not class collaboration.
Jimena Vergara
February 7, 2021Don’t Be Fooled: The Most Diverse Cabinet in History Is Pure Demagogy
Biden boasts that his new cabinet “looks like America.” However, whether the cabinet “looks like” the working class has nothing to do with their interests and politics. Make no mistake: these politicians will always put the capitalists above the workers.
Jimena Vergara
January 8, 2021This Is What the Decline of the U.S. Empire Looks Like
The world watched yesterday as a horde of extreme-right Trump supporters stormed the joint congressional session to certify Joe Biden’s electoral win. These events portend more instability for the U.S. imperialist project, both on the national and international stages.
Jimena Vergara
January 7, 2021Neoliberalism’s Last Stand
Biden’s election is an attempt to revive the neoliberal order — one that is doomed to fail.
Jimena Vergara
December 6, 2020A New World Imagined: Working Class Organization after the Elections
The following talk was given at the Left Voice online event: "Fighting the Next Oppressor: Socialist Strategy Post Elections" on November 14. If you are interested in collaborating with Left Voice, sign up here.
Jimena Vergara
November 17, 2020Elections Amid Imperialist Decline
Whoever becomes president must manage an unprecedented situation amid increasing discontent with the regime.
Jimena Vergara
November 1, 2020France’s New Anticapitalist Party: Some Lessons for Revolutionaries
The history of the New Anticapitalist Party in France, which coincides with a decade-long period of intense class struggle in the country, is instructive for revolutionaries in the United States seeking a path forward to building an independent working-class party that will fight for socialism. So too are the nature of the current crisis of the NPA and the crisis of leadership that Leon Trotsky wrote about in 1938.
Jimena Vergara
September 20, 2020The United States in the Global Crisis: Perspectives for Revolutionary Struggle
Below we reproduce Left Voice editorial board member Jimena Vergara's speech from the Latin American and United States Conference which was called by the organizations of the Left Front in Argentina this July. More than 50 organizations from across Latin America and the United States participated. Vergara’s intervention was part of a panel on the global and U.S. situation.
Jimena Vergara
August 6, 2020Police Abolition, Self Defense, and Self Organization
Now that the movement has put the very existence of the police on the table, socialists everywhere must begin to think about the forms of self organization needed to further develop and strengthen the struggle in order to eventually build a broader confrontation with capital and the state.
Jimena Vergara
June 28, 2020Conceived in Crisis, Uprisings Against Police Terror Rattle the Foundations of the U.S. State
On Wednesday, the mayor of Minnesota announced that Derek Chauvin --- the police officer that suffocated George Floyd --- will be charged with second degree murder, and that the other three cops who were accomplices of Chauvin will finally be arrested. This is an important victory for the movement; but these protests are unlike anything we have seen before and there is plenty of potential for continued unrest and resistance.
Jimena Vergara
June 3, 2020Capitalism is a Virus: Value Chains, Class Struggle, and the United Front
The coronavirus has spread around the world through the circuits of capital and value chains, dividing the working class and putting millions of frontline workers at risk. Reorganizing the forces of the proletariat to respond to this threat is the only way forward.
Jimena Vergara
May 11, 2020Las Vegas Hotels Are Empty: The Homeless Are in a “Socially Distant” Parking Lot
Multiple sources reported today that in Las Vegas, authorities have built a "shelter" for the homeless in order to respect "social distancing.” The images coming out of Nevada, however, tell an entirely different story.
Jimena Vergara
March 30, 2020Bernie Sanders, Cuba and a Chance for Socialists
Bernie Sanders’ measured comments about Cuba have sent the liberal and not-so-liberal media into an anti-communist tailspin. What their comments reveal is not a fear of authoritarianism but the threat that socialism poses to capitalist interests.
Jimena Vergara
February 28, 2020Black Liberation and the Early Communist Movement
The struggle for Black liberation was an integral part of the US Communist Party’s practice in the years after its foundation. The party’s work was particularly influenced by the Bolshevik Party and Black radicalism in America.
Jimena Vergara
February 9, 2020Chile: On the Front Lines against Neoliberalism
An Interview with Dauno Totoro of the Revolutionary Workers Party (PTR)
Jimena Vergara
December 29, 2019Shut Down Guantanamo!
On December 6, the New York Times published the drawings of a victim of torture from Guantanamo Bay that reveal in detail the atrocities perpetrated by U.S. soldiers there.
Jimena Vergara
December 7, 2019Fred Hampton Was Assassinated, His Fight for Black Liberation is Still Alive
On December 4, 1969, Chicago police fired about 100 shots into an apartment containing seven sleeping members of the Illinois’ Black Panther Party chapter. Mark Clark and Fred Hampton were killed.
Jimena Vergara
December 4, 2019Chile on Fire: Massive Protests Force Repeal of Fare Hikes
This Friday in Santiago, Chile, tens of thousands of high school students, accompanied by teachers and workers, turned the city upside down to protest a rise in subway ticket prices. The right-wing government of Sebastián Piñera responded by declaring a state of emergency. Less than 24 hours later, the president was forced to revoke the increase.
Jimena Vergara
October 19, 2019Cancel Argentina’s Debt
The current crisis in Argentina is a consequence of the austerity policies imposed on the semicolonial countries by the IMF and imperialism.
Jimena Vergara
September 26, 2019A Revolutionary Perspective for Puerto Rico
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?
Jimena Vergara
August 3, 2019Socialism 2019: The Two Souls of U.S. Socialism
Over the July 4 weekend, more than 1,700 people met up in Chicago for the Socialism Conference. The International Socialist Organization (ISO) had dissolved a few months previously. Many participants were pushing for reformist politics within the Democratic Party—but others want to resist the shift to the right.
Jimena Vergara
July 23, 2019Donald Trump, the Squad and the War Against the Most Oppressed
Donald Trump’s attacks on Ilhan Omar and the “Squad” is yet another chapter in Trump’s war against People of Color and immigrants in the United States.
Jimena Vergara
July 19, 2019