The Socialists Everywhere Project began in the now-defunct Organizing Committee for the North Side Blue Line (NSBL) branch. It arose out of conversations about how to learn more about the employers, landlords,…
Read moreIndependence Requires Investment: The Time is Now for an Independent Run
Socialists have to mean what we say and say what we mean. The…
Cadre In Office, Socialists In Power
The democratic road to socialism needs state power, so democratic socialists need to…
Break the Cycle
As a matter of survival, socialists need to move past models from professionally-managed…
Improving Our Analysis: The Dialectical Method and Historical Materialism
[Friedrich Engels’] three classical laws of dialectics [are]...the law of “interpenetrating opposites,” the…
Nonprofits and the City’s Political Economy: A Case Study
Marxist analysis of attempts by executives of nonprofits to halt labor organizing in…
Ultraliberalism: The Dominant Tendency of the American Left
Ultraliberalism is the predominant politics of the left, and so long as the…
Eye on Springfield
Introduction. In the U.S. system, the power is at the state level. Federal…
Primer Red: The Petit (Petty) Bourgeoisie
It has been observed, fairly widely at this point, that “Trumpism,” whatever that…
Starving and Policing Imperial Cities
To stay alive in perpetual late capitalist austerity, cities turned to a strategy…
Nation-Building, National Liberation and the Plurinational Working Class
Socialists and radicals have been and are grappling with how to grow and…
Organizations in Movement
“The body does not consist of one member but of many. If the…
Police Do Not Need Unions
Police unions are immensely powerful organizations that exercise outsized powers in U.S. cities.…
Outlaw Country
The worsening of the quality of life for U.S. workers can’t be neatly…
Mass Organizations and NGOs in a Socialist Movement
When socialists gathered this summer across two events—the Socialism 2019 conference in Chicago…
Non-Profits in the Coming Struggle
As socialists look out at the horizon of the struggle for a radically…
Direct Action in a Time of Class Struggle
Perhaps the most important political sentence written about Chicago went by largely unnoticed…