Strike pickets in New York (1910) Image via Wikimedia Commons The utter rout of the Labour Party in the 2019 British elections has raised serious questions about the immediate viability of an electoral road to socialism “across the pond.” Some commentators have since tried to distance the democratic socialism of Jeremy Corbyn from that of his American counterpart … [Read more...] about Organizing the unorganized: The left’s task in the labor movement
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Beyond Basebuilding: Towards a Declassed Socialist Movement
Protestors links arms with Nick Lambert Saturday during a protest. A recent salvo of polemics has renewed discussion around the question of unity throughout the emergent US socialist movement. With the DSA convention in August serving as a point of departure, several analyses explain the underlying contradictions of this political moment and offer a way forward. I argue that … [Read more...] about Beyond Basebuilding: Towards a Declassed Socialist Movement
Beyond the Vote: Base-Building for Class Independence in Philadelphia
By: Adryan Corcione, James Yeun, and Ariel Diliberto In the United States today, election results do not represent the will, or number, of the people who live here. Marginalized voters, year after year, are intentionally excluded from our so-called democratic process. Through voter suppression of marginalized people, voting in a capitalist system becomes of interest to … [Read more...] about Beyond the Vote: Base-Building for Class Independence in Philadelphia
Basebuilding for Prison Abolition with Incarcerated Trans Comrades
When we basebuild around prison abolition, the base we build is not deciding between inside versus outside of prison. It is not always a matter of whether you have been incarcerated or not to be engaged in the work although that context is still valuable when determining your role in it. I am conscious of the privileges I carry when entering this space, but I understand the … [Read more...] about Basebuilding for Prison Abolition with Incarcerated Trans Comrades
DSA’s Left and Right Both Miss the Point: We Need to Build the Left and the Working-Class Together
The article “Do America’s Socialists Have a Race Problem?” in The New Republic reaffirmed for me why I’ve hitched my wagon to Philly Socialists and the Marxist Center, rather than DSA. It’s not because I share the author’s implied criticisms or think he gave DSA a fair shake. He clearly didn’t! It’s because DSA is having a fierce internal debate in which both sides of the … [Read more...] about DSA’s Left and Right Both Miss the Point: We Need to Build the Left and the Working-Class Together