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Left Voice Magazine #2: Women on the Front Lines
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Left Voice
April 8, 2017Editorial – The Comeback
Strike. It is an idea no longer confined to leftist politics, these days appearing occasionally on the CNN news ticker, winking at us unexpectedly from Teen Vogue.
Left Voice
April 7, 2017All Power to the Rank and File
A case for a workers' insurgency in New York City, and everywhere.
Ioan Georg
March 28, 2017Weber’s Protestant Ethic: a Marxist Critique
The classical work by Max Weber has been used by sociologists and other scholars to proclaim the predominance of ideas over material forces. This is a critical reassessment of his work through the lenses of historical materialism.
Juan Cruz Ferre
March 25, 2017Can the Police Stop Deportations? A Debate with Kshama Sawant
Kshama Sawant, a socialist member of Seattle's city council, has called on the mayor to deploy the police to stop deportations. Could cops help immigrants resist the ICE? Or does this demand only create illusions in a deeply racist institution like the Seattle Police Department? A debate with the comrades of Socialist Alternative.
Nathaniel Flakin
March 2, 2017We Need a Feminism of the 99%
Feminist scholar Nancy Fraser talked with Left Voice about the International Women's Strike called for March 8 and the platform for a left-wing Feminism.
Left Voice
March 2, 2017With Ellison Defeated, What Next for the Democratic Socialists of America?
Guest contributors Hart Eagleburger and Jack Rusk critically assess the position paper of the Left Caucus of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the organizational dynamics and future of the DSA in the aftermath of Keith Ellison’s failed run for DNC chair.
Hart Eagleburger
March 1, 2017Workers Against Trump
Class struggle is, as it has always been, the main source of conflict in our society. A month into Trump’s presidency, we need to fight from a working-class perspective.
Juan Cruz Ferre
February 20, 2017Disappointing Reactions to the Anti-Milo Berkeley Antifa Action
Guest contributors Hart Eagleburger and Jack Rusk argue that commentators should avoid accusing the Black Bloc of being infiltrated by the right wing or police without any evidence, regardless of how one feels about the Black Bloc
Hart Eagleburger
February 16, 2017Theory and Popularization
Socialist and communist parties have often blurred the line between theory and popularization. Marxist theory is not simply sociology -- the study of political economy or history -- but a guide for revolutionary practice.
Doug Enaa Greene
February 15, 2017