Teri Castillo, a housing organizer and Democratic Socialists of America member, is fighting on the San Antonio City Council for public investment in housing, health care, education, utilities, and more. Castillo says the era of municipal austerity must end....
Starbucks is “fighting dirtier and dirtier all the time” in its attempt to smash the nationwide union drive, Starbucks Workers United field director Daisy Pitkin writes. Workers are organizing and striking — they need consumers to step up their support. Starbucks...
Student loan debt shouldn’t exist. Neither should medical debt. The Biden administration just canceled some student loan debt — now it's time to cancel medical debt. More than half of US adults report having gone into debt because of medical or dental bills. (Getty...
The next Bernie Sanders campaign, if it happens at all, could be used to build an organization that helps transcend the Left’s current impasse. Bernie 2024 — but make it a new beginning instead of a last hurrah. Senator Bernie Sanders speaking in Miami, Florida on...
Socialists are becoming a problem for New York’s Democratic establishment. Mayor Eric Adams declared war on the socialist movement and endorsed candidates to challenge the Democratic Socialists of America. For the most part, he failed. New York City mayor Eric Adams...
In 1910, Winston Churchill sent troops to the coalfields of South Wales to put an end to a strike. Though the miners were defeated, this episode radicalized the Welsh working class and helped sever ties between conservative Liberals and trade unions. A group of coal...
Australia’s constitution is outdated, antidemocratic, and has consistently blocked social democratic reforms. That’s why we need to rip it up and write a new one. While today constitutional reform is a low priority for much of the Australian left, this was not always...
We learned to obey the umpire’s decision without question, however irrational it was. We learned to play with the team, which meant subordinating your personal inclinations, and even interests, for the good of the whole. We did not denounce failures, but “Well tried”...
Lula da Silva is leading the polls for Brazil’s upcoming presidential election. But far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro is threatening a coup to hold on to power if he loses the vote. Brazilian presidential candidate and former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva...
The official head of the August 28, 1963, March on Washington was socialist A. Philip Randolph. In his speech, reprinted here, he called for restructuring society so the “sanctity of private property takes second place to the sanctity of the human personality.”...
Today is the 59th anniversary of the March on Washington, so get ready for plenty of whitewashed history. Here’s the truth: the Civil Rights Movement was a radical struggle against Jim Crow tyranny whose early foot soldiers were Communists and labor militants....
The March on Washington was 59 years ago. It’s popularly remembered as a moderate demonstration where MLK “had a dream” — but in fact, it was the decades-long culmination of a mass, working-class movement against racial and economic injustice. Demonstrators holding...