Guest Posts
Power Cuts in the Gaza Strip, a Humanitarian Crisis
As the Gaza Strip moves even more rapidly than predicted toward becoming uninhabitable, its two million residents face an escalating humanitarian crisis.
Mira Craig-Morse
July 14, 2017Assata Shakur, Always Welcome
The legacies of Assata Shakur and the Black Liberation Army are revisited in university and city struggles to overthrow racial capitalism.
Conor Tomás Reed
July 11, 2017Socialism’s Future Can’t Be Its Failures
Bhaskar Sunkara's recent New York Times piece is a dangerous misremembering of socialist history that tries to make socialism safe for liberals. To avoid repeating the failures of the 20th century, we have to take an honest look at our own defeats.
Evan McLaughlin
July 6, 2017ARGENTINA: Action in Solidarity with PepsiCo Workers
PepsiCo workers, students, and other sectors of the working class blocked a road in the center of Buenos Aires as part of the fight against the firing 600 PepsiCo workers.
Mira Craig-Morse
July 5, 2017The Oath: The Story of the Jewish Bund
In the early twentieth century, the largest socialist organization in Russia was the Jewish Bund, numbering tens of thousands, who were willing to fight, arms in hand, for the liberation of Jews. While the Bund fostered the national identity and dignity of Russian Jews, they were also committed Marxists, who viewed Jewish emancipation as intimately linked to a worldwide socialist revolution.
Doug Enaa Greene
July 3, 2017Who’s Afraid of the Anthropocene?
Reports of severe weather events and the dwindling of endangered species, in the shadow of world politics, have conjured a recent, now popular neologism – the Anthropocene.
Bee Vang
July 2, 2017Workers Occupy Factory to Keep their Jobs with PepsiCo
600 workers who were fired by PepsiCo are taking matters into their own hands and occupying the factory in Buenos Aires.
Mira Craig-Morse
June 29, 2017Is Socialism Not a Struggle for Power?
Attempts to separate revolutionary authority from socialism mangle both the aims and history of socialism.
Hart Eagleburger
May 8, 2017Repeal Market Health Care – It’s Time to Fight for Medicare For All
The Affordable Care Act and the now-failed American Health Care Act are different versions of a market-led, for-profit health care insurance system. They both allow private hospitals, the private insurance industry, and pharmaceutical companies to win out at the expense – both economic and physical – of working families.
Emma Vignola
April 4, 2017International Women’s Day: Feminism and Workers’ Movements
On March 8, thousands of women around the world took to the streets and went on strike. What is International Women's Day and where did it come from?
Angela Dunne
March 9, 2017