Democratic Party
The DSA in the Democratic Party Labyrinth
Left Voice’s second issue, “Women on the Front Lines”, is now available for purchase. For every magazine sold, we are donating $1 to a worker controlled factory in Argentina. “When you going to stop selling us out?” Days after police officer Darren Wilson gunned down Michael Brown in August 2014, activists cornered Rev. Jesse Jackson […]
Tre Kwon
June 19, 2017The Party We Need: A Revolutionary Socialist Party
We are living in turbulent times. President Trump and the rise of the alt-right are not the only news. Thousands of people have become politically active in the past year, galvanized by the Bernie Sanders campaign and now joining organizations on the left, such as the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the International Socialist Organization, or Socialist Alternative.
Juan Cruz Ferre
May 14, 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, 2017Fight Trump, Keep Dems at Bay: The Case Against a Popular Front
If we want long term gains for the working class, we need to avoid the trap of the Democratic Party.
Juan Cruz Ferre
February 4, 2017The Opportunity of the Present Moment
Trump's ascension to power is weeks away. Left Voice presents a series by guest contributors on the current political conjuncture, the left, and prospects for party-building in the United States.
Hart Eagleburger
December 19, 2016Trump’s Triumph and the World that Lies Ahead
The unthinkable is no longer so when it becomes a reality. Against all predictions Donald Trump became the 45th President of the United States. He is now the man who will hold the most important and powerful position in the world.
Claudia Cinatti
November 10, 2016We Don’t Subscribe to Reforming the Police
In this series, Left Voice amplifies the voices of candidates who have undertaken the bold task of running as socialists. This time we interviewed vice-presidential candidate for Workers' World Party, Lamont Lilly.
Lamont Lilly
October 27, 2016Nothing to Lose But Our Chains: A Working Class Program
Since Sanders stepped out of the presidential race at the DNC, throwing full support behind Hillary Clinton, a broad range of left, socialist groups and Sanders supporters have been casting their gazes to the Green Party. A CNN poll in early August showed Stein with a projected 5 percent of the total vote, and 13 percent of the vote from would-be Sanders supporters. For more than a few left and socialist groups, Jill Stein is being put forward as the best option come November. In this article, we return to the bare-bone idea of party and program needed to advance the interests of the workers and oppressed.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
August 31, 2016It Was Never About Him: Sanders at the DNC
Sanders completed his surrender on Monday before the assembled delegates of the Democratic Convention. The DNC elite gloat in their victory. What happens now to his "Political Revolution?
Ian Steinman
July 27, 2016