Tag: Strategy
When Common Sense Fails
A systematic critique of Jacobin‘s voter preference study: what happens when your political conclusions aren’t supported by your own data?
Payback Time
Kim Moody argues that the current economic conjuncture is among the most favorable for workers in decades. But might we see the organized militancy required to bring about better working conditions, wages, and contracts?
Revolutionary Strategies on a Heated Earth
Christian Zeller follows up on David McNally and Gareth Dale’s dual-power perspective on ecosocialist strategy in the context of the recent extreme heatwaves.
The Necessity of Taking Back the Streets
Warren Montag probes the limits of current DSA strategy in the context of the American far right’s revival. What can the organization do under these conditions?
Moments of Truth
The struggle for Palestinian liberation isn’t an optional part of a socialist program; it’s an obligatory part of any anti-imperialist politics today.
Counterrevolution in Sudan
Magdi el-Gizouli discusses October’s military coup in Sudan and contextualizes the resistance to it in the wake 2018–19 movement.
Caught Between the Two Superpowers
Brian Hioe discusses how the international left should relate to Taiwan, a country caught between the two superpowers.
What Was Chinese Trotskyism?
Taking Wang Fanxi’s analysis of Chinese Trotskyism as his point of departure, Promise Li argues that recovering dissident Marxisms is essential for the contemporary project of challenging bureaucratic cooptation of working-class struggles.
In Defense of Climate Anger
Our biospheric breakdown is not a tragedy but a crime—a crime so egregious that we must raise our collective fist in righteous anger.
What Happened to the “Dirty Break”?
Charles Post puts the DSA’s current strategy in the context of the formation of independent worker’s parties in the United Kingdom and United States in the twentieth century.