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On June 14th, 2026, worker militants from across the United States came together in Chicago and online for “For a Fighting Workers Movement: A Militant Critique of Labor Notes,” an event bringing together class struggle formations from across the U.S. labor movement to draw a clear line between labor-left reformism and class unionism. Watch the […]

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Karl Marx dismissed speculation about a future socialist society as “writing recipes for the cookshops of the future.” A closer reading suggests he had a rich vision of the good life, based in the idea that people flourish by meeting each other’s needs.

Avi Lewis’s election to leadership of the NDP is a welcome development. But if the party wants to be a real vehicle for working-class politics, changes at the top are only part of the equation.

The current gerrymandering wars underscore fundamental problems with the United States’ electoral system. The Fair Representation Act, a bill to establish proportional representation in US House elections, offers a way out of this impasse.

Postscript: The pledge proposal will return in September

Postscript: The pledge proposal will return in September

What Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution meant to America’s revolutionaries.

Shawn Fain’s reform administration in the United Auto Workers now finds itself locked in conflict with a federal anti-corruption monitor that Fain says is overstepping his bounds — including in opposing the union’s stance against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Mireille Fanon-Mendès France of the Frantz Fanon Foundation and former UN expert (standing), speaking at the March 29 antifascist plenary. To her left is Fernanda Melcciona (deputy, MES/PSOL) and to her right is a representative from Colombia’s Pacto Historico. WHAT DOES THE succession of serious events that have been constantly shattering the balance of international… Continue reading Anti-racism, Feminism, Fascism and Civil Rights

Tony Mazzocchi was instrumental in reshaping workplace health and safety — a feat made possible by empowering workers themselves to expose hazardous conditions. Recent attacks on OSHA underscore the importance and continued relevance of his work.

A bill now in Congress, written ostensibly to address large-scale cargo theft, contains a provision granting ICE broad exemptions to collect federally protected commercial data. The loophole would expand ICE’s already vast surveillance apparatus.

But progressives need to be careful about how they pitch their appeals to workers.

Strait of Hormuz: Nice oil shipping lane there. A real pity if something would happen to it… PERHAPS DONALD TRUMP was misunderstood: He always promised that the war with Iran would end in “Unconditional Surrender,” but didn’t mention that it would be by him. But seriously, Trump and some of his advisers are furious with… Continue reading Trump-Netanyahu Debacle

Speaking from prepared remarks on Tuesday, June 16, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine made a powerful statement opposing further use of the death penalty and asking his state legislature to abolish it in his state. DeWine not only sought the death penalty in his prior role as a prosecutor, he was directly involved in crafting the […]

Tuesday’s election showed us three things: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s victory was not a fluke, grassroots organizing by progressive groups and unions can overcome big money, and unapologetic support for Palestinian freedom can be a winning campaign message.

More than two decades ago, helicopters, soldiers, and oil workers descended on the territory of the Kichwa people of Sarayaku, in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

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Advocates of the “political capitalism” and “monopoly capital” theories argue that capitalism is stagnating, increasingly unproductive, and dominated by rent-seeking. These are flawed diagnoses that put socialist strategy on the wrong track.

Popular access to and control over the White House has reached historic lows. There are grander spatial testaments to democracy to be seen in Washington, DC.

In New York City, leaders of unions and nonprofit groups like the Working Families Party again picked the losing, old-guard side in last night’s elections. How long before these leaders get on board with the future of working-class politics?

For decades, the Netherlands’ “no-nonsense” model of neoliberalism has been the poster child for free-market reforms. Yet for all the rhetoric of national unity, this model has forced long periods of austerity and the organized looting of public services.