The world is burning. Climate change continues unabated, and although there have been encouraging signs of international cooperation, much of it seems too little, too late. Over the summer, heat waves shattered records across the globe, leading to excess deaths, catastrophic crop failures, and tremendous infrastructural damage. Combined with the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing Russian…
The average CEO has to labor for almost six hours, perhaps through a late lunch, to get the same compensation as the average employee will receive during the entire year.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) survey of households in November found that the official unemployment rate stayed at 3.7%. That’s low by conventional standards and lower than 4% to 5%, which is probably what the Federal Reserve is aiming for. Official unemployment rates for some groups stayed down. The rate for whites was 3.3%…
In many communities, December 21 is the date when a local house of worship serves as the host of a Longest Night service memorializing the homeless persons who died in the past year. In my community of Indianapolis, Christ Church Cathedral at the center of downtown began last year’s event by ringing its bell 167 times —…
The slave went free, stood a brief moment in the sun, then moved back again toward slavery. — W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction W. E. B. Du Bois was a founder of the NAACP, the first Black man to receive a PhD from Harvard, and a scholar whose work is extremely important to the socialist…
Paid media is great, but what about field organizing? An over reliance on paid media is no substitute for recruiting an army of volunteers, and it is leaving too many Democratic voters behind. Think back to the last time you watched an evening of television, can you remember the name of each of the products…
Successful DSA campaigns to protect abortion rights in Kansas offer a model for other states.
The National Multiracial Organizing Committee’s Organizing Institute focused on the challenges of, and opportunities for, multiracial organizing in DSA.
A DSA International Committee organizer talks about DSA’s response to the war in Ukraine, the need for socialist anti-war organizing, and his perspective on the conflict as an Eastern European.
Review of The Rise of a New Left: How Young Radicals Are Shaping the World of Politics by Raina Lipsitz (Verso 2022) In this brief, yet thorough, history of modern U.S. socialism, Raina Lipsitz answers an important question: Where do DSA and the Left stand after 2020? She also offers a sobering yet inspirational record…
