“What I remember most deeply about the Communists is their passion. It was passion that converted them, passion that held them, passion that lifted them up and then twisted them down. Each…
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Mass Campaigns and Queer Liberation
Based on a recent membership demographic survey, about ⅓ of DSA members identify…
New All-Affordable Housing Development Named After Lucy Gonzalez Parsons
On Friday, May 20, 2022, over 250 Chicagoans gathered on the 2600 block…
Solidarity With Ukraine: Resistance Movements, The Masses, and Socialism
On 04/12/22, Democratic Left published “How DSA’ers Can Help Ukraine” by Dan La…
The Populist Pathway to Socialism
Many early 20th century American socialists like Eugene Debs and Henry Demarest Lloyd…
To Meet the Moment, the Left Must Study Reconstruction
A recent panel hosted by Bernie Sanders explored the lessons of Reconstruction. Dana…
Puerto Rico’s Obreros Ilustrados: An Interview With Author Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo
Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo's The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of…
Starving and Policing Imperial Cities
To stay alive in perpetual late capitalist austerity, cities turned to a strategy…
Taibbi is Right: Wither Marcuse
Matt Taibbi has done a great service for the American Left. His recent…
Eight Books I Read in 2020 That You Should Read Too
Of all the negatives 2020 bestowed upon us, one opportunity it happened to…
The Legalization of Affordable Housing
The legalization of affordable housing. That is what the Chicago City Council did…
The Heirs to the Sewer Socialists: Part 3
This is part 3 is a 3 part series. Part 1 can be…
The Heirs to the Sewer Socialists: Part 2
This is part 2 in a 3-part series. You can find part 1…
The Heirs to the Sewer Socialists: Part 1
This is part 1 in a 3-part series. You can find part 2…
Frank A. Stauber: Chicago’s First Socialist Alderman
Today, there is no 526 North Milwaukee Avenue. The numbers jump from 518…
Every President Has Been Bad But Here Are The Five Worst
Picking the five worst presidents of all time is a hard job. For…
How Milwaukee’s Sewer Socialists Prepared the City for a Pandemic
Historians and epidemiologists have compared the COVID-19 outbreak to the Spanish Flu of…