Guest Posts
The Role of Grievability in the State’s Monopoly on Violence
In the wake of the Stoneman Douglas mass shooting, the aftermath has launched a nationwide movement against gun violence. On the surface it’s hard not to agree with these organizers but when we examine the policy demands set forth on behalf of the movement, there are apt critiques to be made.
Lily Cichanowicz
April 10, 2018
Ecological Destruction in the Name of Science
How has a science focused on capital accumulation been used to overturn tried and true models of agriculture to the detriment of the environment and indigenous livelihoods?
Michelle Munjanattu
March 23, 2018
Adjuncts: Underpaid, Overworked and Mobilizing on International Women’s Day
Adjuncts and other teachers are underpaid and undervalued. Thats why we will mobilize on March 8
Katie Entigar
March 6, 2018
The Price of Wonderland: Homeless Disney Worker Dies in Car
A former Disney employee urges workers to fight for their rights and remember her co-worker Yeweinisht Mesfin who died homeless in her car.
Vanessa Munoz
March 4, 2018
Student Voices Unite Against CUNY Board of Directors
In New York, CUNY students fight a battle against the administration’s efforts to stifle their voices.
S.C.
February 27, 2018
Forgetting Grenfell: the Neoliberal Narrative
The Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 was arguably one of the greatest tragedies to befall the British working class this century. Grenfell Tower momentarily stripped capitalism of its disguises, leaving it naked and exposed for the world to see.
Natasha Drake
February 5, 2018
Prospects for a Working Class Revolutionary Socialist Party in South Africa
Radical leftists in South Africa and beyond have broadly welcomed NUMSA’s 2018 New Year’s resolution to establish a workers’ party in the near future. What is to be expected?
Peter Jacobs
February 3, 2018
Still Not a Neutral Player on a Moving Train: Carrying Howard Zinn’s Torch in the Classrooms and in the Streets
We remember Howard Zinn on the eighth anniversary of his death.
Michael Gottlieb
January 27, 2018
South Africa: NUMSA Calls to Build a Workers Revolutionary Party
The largest metalworkers' union in South Africa has just put out a call to build a revolutionary workers' party in the country, independent of both the ANC and the Communist Party.
Left Voice
January 11, 2018
The Sigh of the Oppressed in Iran
Protesters in Iran express outrage at economic conditions, a testament to a failed domestic agenda of neoliberalism and privatization.
Mohammad Tootkaboni
January 8, 2018