What was the purpose of the ISO? With the recent dissolution of the International Socialist Organization (US), a former member asks, what exactly did it build for forty years?
Abolishing ICE by funding it In spite of promises to "Abolish ICE," Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others voted to fund it on their very first day in office.
The socialist case for the INS? Many calls in the US to "abolish ICE", including from a recently elected socialist, are actually calls to return to the notorious immigration…
Political repression beyond the baton Mike King's new book, When Riot Cops Are Not Enough, describes how movements are repressed when overt police violence is unsuccessful
A blueprint for a party of an old type A Blueprint for a New Party recently published in Jacobin Magazine is more of a strategy for campaigning for Democrats than a path to…
The real problem with Jill Stein Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for President, has come under widespread attack from Hillary Clinton's unscrupulous supporters, but the…
The Oakland police cannot be reformed The Oakland Police cannot be reformed partly because reformers are not even willing to fight for incremental change
Electoral politics is not a gateway drug Rather than leading to more militant and radical forms of resistance, electoral politics typically leads only to more electoral politics.
The postmodern left and the success of neoliberalism The international Left promotes its own image rather than engaging in the bitter reality of resistance against neoliberalism. It does not need to…
Snitches get Pulitzers Journalists document social movements solely to advance their careers, but their work often helps the police and employers target people who take…
International left distracted by shiny new object Jeremy Corbyn has already helped Leftists around the world forget their uncritical support of SYRIZA
Sanders gets burned It is right to protest Bernie Sanders, no matter how socialist he claims to be. The women who disrupted his speech did not create a racial divide…
