Since we started working on Issue 3, the friction inside the world imperialist system has begun to generate tremendous sparks. We found ourselves playing catch up in part because world events happen so quickly, and because of the difficulties faced by part-time contributors/full-time workers, who must continue to work to reproduce our daily existence. In … More Editorial – Issue 3
Politicians continue to put out programs containing provisions for worthwhile reforms while the crisis-stricken capitalist system has already decided that life-saving safety measures to decrease the spread and mortality of covid has continued longer than what is acceptable from the perspective of profit-making. Throughout the major waves of the pandemic, most of the working class … More The Impossible Aspirations of Reformism During Capitalism’s Decadence
The following statement was written six months ago in the weeks and days leading up to planned protests in Cuba on November 15th, 2021. When the statement was first published, it was feverishly denounced by online crowd of detractors who by their own admission hadn’t bothered to actually read it; they saw that their cherished … More Cuba: The real fight against state repression begins with workers’ self-organization
The US never developed a social democratic party with a share in power on the national level as social democrats in other countries had. However, there was a broad socialist movement in the US. In 1910 it was looking like it would one day be ensconced in the halls of Congress as a solid third … More Uncle Sam’s “Socialists” and the war in Ukraine
The growing militancy of the North American working class, marked by the uptick in strikes last fall, in facing its deteriorating conditions post-2008 financial crisis and its sharpening with the Covid-19 pandemic demands a serious examination of past revolts against the domination of workers by the wage system and capital. Fifty years ago, the workers … More “If we can show them, we’re capable of anything:” The 1972 Québec General Strike in Retrospect
In our first two pieces on reproductive struggles in class society we highlighted the family unit, prostitution, sex-selective abortions, sterilization, religion, bourgeois laws, and some of the facts and dangers surrounding abortion and contraception. This piece examines sexual violence in times of imperialist conflict and the impact that the climate crisis is having on reproduction. … More Malignant Ulcers of Capitalism: The Proletarian Struggle for Reproductive Freedom (Part 3)
