Guest Posts
Socialists Need Organizations, Even if They’re Small
"From Little Things Big Things Grow": Mick Armstrong of the organization Socialist Alternative in Australia has written a book about strategies for building revolutionary organizations. A former member of the ISO reviews it and investigates the debates about the "micro-sect."
Steve Leigh
August 30, 2019Why the Deafening Silence on Reagan’s Racism?
In July the National Archives released an audiotape of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1971 calling African U.N. delegates “monkeys.” This recording was kept from the public for at least two decades. What role did Reagan play in anti-Black oppression in the modern United States, and why has he been enjoyed such an untouchable, undeserved public image for so long as an American hero?
Daniel Nath
August 28, 2019Prime Pain: The Problems with For-Profit Logistics
An almost 10 year veteran of the logistics industry explains why for-profit logistics is dangerous for workers and the environment. Logistics should be under worker control, not under the control of capitalists for profit.
Rosa James
August 26, 2019Pete Buttigieg: A Fresh Face for a Rotten Party
Pete Buttigieg is a child of privilege fully committed to the U.S. legacy of systemic racism and imperialism.
Renato Flores
August 17, 2019Berlin: Queers for Palestine at the Radical Pride Parade
“Queer liberation is anti-racist and anti-colonial.” An interview with Dr. Melanie Richter-Montpetit, one of the co-organizers of the Queers for Palestine block at the Radical Queer March on July 26 in Berlin.
Eleonora Roldán Mendívil
August 15, 2019“Going Postal”: Neoliberalism and Mass Shootings
Recent weeks have seen a wave of mass shootings, inspired in no small part by Trump’s racist scapegoating. Despite politicians’ attempts to blame everything from mental illness to video games, the fault ultimately lies with capitalism and its propensity towards constant violence.
Kevin Sapere
August 12, 2019Kashmir on Lockdown: India Revokes Autonomy, Occupies Region
On August 5, India’s right-nationalist BJP government scrapped Kashmir’s special status protecting their autonomy and divided it into two regions. While the government paints this as an administrative move to bring progress to the region, the state is occupying Kashmir and actively repressing its 7.5 million Muslim-majority population.
Sou Mi
August 9, 2019Commons of Love: The Socialist Case for Polyamory
In this guest post, Gracie Brett explains the links between capitalism and monogamy and explains the choice to be poly.
Gracie Brett
July 27, 2019We Don’t Want Cleaner Concentration Camps!
The Democratic Party and the NGOs want to improve the conditions in the concentration camps. But we want to shut them all down. This is adapted from a speech at a protest against ICE in Aurora, Colorado on July 12.
Richard Folsom
July 26, 2019Nine Theses on the Puerto Rican Mass Strike
A million people in Puerto Rico toppled their governor with protests and strikes. But the U.S. socialist left was underprepared to fulfill its internationalist duties. The Summer Socialist Discussion Circle (SSDC) from New Orleans presents theses for a balance sheet.
Summer Socialist Discussion Circle
July 25, 2019