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Ideas & Debates

A Call for Submissions: DSA at a Crossroads 

As the DSA kicks off their convention, we're calling on DSA activists fighting for a "clean break" with the Democrats to submit contributions and open up debates on the path toward a class independent, socialist organization. Send us your thoughts during and after the convention at [email protected].

Maryam Alaniz

August 4, 2023

“The Democratic Party has a very obvious class character”: Interview with Rhode Island DSA

Left Voice Writers Rob Belano and Tristan Taylor spoke with Rhode Island DSA co-chair Tony Unger about the chapter’s recent resolution against trying to “transform” the Democratic Party, committing itself to endorsing candidates who are independent socialist, and advocating the construction of a mass socialist party.

Tristan Taylor

July 20, 2023

The Worker Bees of the Comintern

The Communist International was not only a revolutionary organization, but also an employer. Brigitte Studer's global history of the Comintern, “Travelers of World Revolution,” was just published in English by Verso Books.

Nathaniel Flakin

July 20, 2023

Left Voice Magazine for July 2023

We present the summer issue of our magazine, with an article about the uprisings in France, a document from the Trotskyist Fraction's recent conference, and a debate about Marxism and intersectionality. There are also two interviews with historians about Stalinism and about the Communist women's movement.

Left Voice

July 11, 2023

The Return of the “Era of Crises, Wars, and Revolutions”

The 12th conference of the Trotskyist Fraction — Fourth International (FT-CI) discussed the prospects for the internationalist revolutionary Left

Claudia Cinatti

July 11, 2023

Feminism, Intersectionality, and Marxism

Debates on gender, race, and class: How can the working class become hegemonic in struggles against oppression?

Does the Revolution Eat Its Children?

An interview with historian Doug Greene about his new book on Stalinism, The Dialectics of Saturn.

Nathaniel Flakin

July 11, 2023

#AllThatsLeftPod: The UPS Contract Fight Heats Up — Interview with a Teamster

In this episode of the podcast, we check in on the impending UPS strike with Teamster member and Local 623 Principal Officer Richard Hooker.

Left Voice

July 11, 2023

Ukraine Is Not Vietnam

What is the class character of the war in Ukraine? Some socialists see it as a war of national liberation against Russian “imperialism,” and so they support the Ukrainian side. But this leads them to align with Western imperialism. Socialists need an independent position.

Nathaniel Flakin

July 1, 2023