Guest Posts
Death by Poverty: Canada’s Assisted Dying Program Exposes Fault Lines in Healthcare
Changes to Canada’s assisted dying program have garnered international controversy. New amendments extend access to assisted death to those with non-fatal conditions. These changes have resulted in dozens of patients applying to escape not illness, but poverty.
Matthew Walters
February 9, 2023
National Guard Seeks to Double Size of its Largest Training Site
The National Guard is proposing to more than double its Camp Grayling training site in Michigan. The super polluter seeks to deepen its ties with private contractors and develop tools of surveillance and punishment.
Joe Garofalo
January 24, 2023
Class Independence and the Broad Parties: A Response to Left Voice
As part of ongoing debates on the Left about building independent political parties, we are publishing the following response to Nathaniel Flakin by Andrew Sernatinger of Tempest.
Andrew Sernatinger
December 31, 2022
Who Do the Cops Protect? 82-Year-Old Alabama Woman Arrested for Overdue Trash Bill
Neighbors expressed outrage at local Alabama police for arresting an 82-year-old Black woman for not paying her trash collection bill. The police chief, mayor, and local court system continue to say it was justified.
Daniel Nath
December 23, 2022
No U.S./NATO Arms to Ukraine!
As part of the ongoing debates among socialists on the war in Ukraine, we publish this statement by the Revolutionary Socialist Organizing Project, Denver Communists, and Seattle Revolutionary Socialists.
Revolutionary Socialist Organizing Project
December 22, 2022
Netanyahu Assembles the Most Racist, Extremist Cabinet in Israeli History. How Did This Happen?
The rise of Itamar Ben-Gvir and his fascist Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party shocked the world. But this development in Israeli politics was a long time coming.
Ben Marenlensky
December 21, 2022
Liberalism with Extra Steps
G.A. Cohen and Analytical Marxism: We read it so you don’t have to.
Doug Enaa Greene
December 11, 2022
Understanding the Carnage at Colorado Springs
The heinous violence displayed in Colorado Springs is a stark reminder of the menacing, lethal threat that today’s determined far right continues to pose to trans and queer people, and anyone living outside capitalism’s imposed sexual and gender boundaries.
Keegan O'Brien
December 4, 2022
“We Sold Out the People Who Elected Us”: UC Bargaining Team Member Speaks Out About Union Concessions
Here we publish the testimony of a graduate student worker on strike at the University of California, who is part of the bargaining team for UAW Local 2865. Wednesday night, the bargaining team voted 10-9 to make severe concessions to the university.
Janna Haider, UAW 2865 Bargaining Team
December 2, 2022
One Way Out: The Revolutionary Hero of Andor
Not just another Star Wars story set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Andor is a mature science fiction series about radicalization and rebellion against fascism and imperialism.
Doug Enaa Greene
December 2, 2022