Oakland Teachers Are Striking Against Billionaire Privatizers
Oakland teachers are on strike today to defeat plans by the superrich to take over and dismantle their public schools.
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“This Campaign Is Literally Making Socialists”
Ugo Okere is a 22-year-old Nigerian immigrant and democratic socialist running for Chicago City Council. In an interview, he describes his history as an activist, the smears he’s faced from the incumbent, and why democratic socialism “is about democratic control of every single facet of our life.”
The Most Suspect Name in News
Sarah Isgur Flores’s whole career is based on shading the truth at the behest of the GOP. Bafflingly, she’ll now be driving CNN’s news coverage.
The Anti-Amazon Ground Game
How New York City socialists and their allies combined electoral muscle with front-stoop politicking to keep Amazon’s headquarters out of the city.
The Green New Deal Is the Only Realistic Option
Liberals and conservatives alike love to decry AOC’s Green New Deal as “unrealistic.” But what’s really unrealistic is continuing on the path of denial and incrementalism we’re on now.
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Green New Deal
The Green New Deal can’t just be a bill or two. It needs to be the framework for politics for the next few decades.
“It’s Eco-Socialism or Death”
Cooperation Jackson leader Kali Akuno on the Green New Deal, the need for mass civil disobedience, and the necessity of building an internationalist movement for eco-socialism.
A Green New Deal for Housing
A Green New Deal can’t deliver economic or environmental justice without tackling the housing crisis. We should go big and build 10 million beautiful, public, no-carbon homes over the next 10 years.
AOC’s Green New Deal Starts Strong
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal resolution channels the fire of the climate movement and popular support for truly bold environmental action. Only the Left is offering climate solutions that could actually work.
The Green New Deal’s Five Freedoms
A radical Green New Deal would open up enormous possibilities for human flourishing — and allow us to reclaim the language of freedom from the Right.
Bernie Is Running, Thank God
Bernie Sanders is running for president again. His message is simple: there’s a class war raging and working people need to win it.
Don’t Call It a Comeback
As 2020 approaches, we indulge in some crass Sunday morning horse-race punditry.
How We Answered the Lies
The attacks on Ilhan Omar mirror the bid to paint Jeremy Corbyn as an enemy of Jews. The Labour Party’s recent history tells US socialists how we can resist such smears — while also fighting antisemitism.
Amazon Is Waging Class War
Let’s call Amazon’s cancellation of its New York City headquarters what it was: a capital strike. It’s a demonstration of why we must overcome capitalists’ power over investment.
West Virginia’s Political Strike Wins Big
Within hours of going on strike, West Virginia educators defeated a dangerous education privatization bill. They’ve again reminded us of a simple truth: strikes work.
Issue No. 31 Out Now!
- Issue No. 31
- Fall 2018
Breaking Bank
In This Issue
All That Was Solid
Economic historian Adam Tooze on a decade of shattered illusions and the limits of the neoliberal imagination.
AOC Is Making C-SPAN Fun
The internal workings of American politics are usually boring as hell. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is making them compulsively watchable — and going after billionaires’ control of our political system in the process.
Why Organized Labor Must Back Bernie Sanders
In 2016, union leaders admired Bernie Sanders’s long track record of fighting for the working class but considered him “unfeasible.” That’s no longer the case. Organized labor must back Sanders’s 2020 campaign.
You Can Have Brandeis or You Can Have Debs
Elizabeth Warren’s political tradition is the left edge of middle-class liberalism; Bernie Sanders hails from America’s socialist tradition. Don’t confuse the two.
In His Own Words
Here’s Bernie Sanders in his own words — from denunciations of US militarism to his prediction that “within a decade, Mississippi could become one of the most progressive states in the country.”
A Catastrophe Foretold
US intervention in Venezuela wouldn’t just be a catastrophe for that country — it would be a disaster for neighboring Colombia too.