Two Souls Within His Breast: Georg Lukács, 1925-29
Lawrence Parker, January 10, 2023
Lawrence Parker argues that existing Trotskyist schemas around the revolutionary career of Georg Lukács in the mid-to-late 1920s are fallacious in the extreme. Read Article.
A Bookish Strike
Jennifer Albert Mann, December 15, 2022
Jennifer Albert Mann reports on the recent UAW Local 2110 strike at HarperCollins Publishers and argues that, considering the union's past militancy, HarperCollins workers should begin to take a more active political stance against the company's reactionary ownership. Read Article.
How the Rail Carriers, Wall Street, and the US Government Crushed Class I Freight Rail Workers
Shuvu Bhattarai, December 12, 2022
Shuvu Bhattarai reports on the status of the U.S. railworkers struggle in the aftermath of Congress' forced tentative agreement. Read Article.
The Horizons of Emancipatory Political Theater: Boal's Theater of the Oppressed in Light of Brecht and Rancière
Renato Flores, December 5, 2022
Renato Flores explores the development and impact of Brazilian dramaturg Augusto Boal's influential 'Theatre of the Oppressed,' historically contextualizing Boal's idiosyncratic approach to theater as a response to the work of Bertolt Brecht and contrasting it with the philosophy of Jacques Rancière. Read Article.
The Korean Miracle’s Rural Legacy
Alex Witherspoon, November 30, 2022
Alex Witherspoon, Yu Zhou, and Alle Fang give an account of socialist agriculture in rural North Korea, arguing that the difficulties faced by the country's economy have been primarily caused by deteriorating trade conditions. Read Article.
Which way, NYC-DSA?
Jack L, November 23, 2022
Partyism or Liquidationism? Bureaucratic Centralism or Democratic Centralism? Campaigns for what, how, and why? Jack L reports back on NYC-DSA’s 2022 Chapter Convention. Read Article.
The Mature Labor Aristocracy and its Problems, Part 2: The Size and Economic Impact of Labor Aristocracies
Amal Samaha, November 19, 2022
In part two of a three-part series, Amal Samaha continues her exploration of the concept of the labor aristocracy and its modern relevance. Read Part One here. Read Article.
The Necessity of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat: a Litmus Test for Marxism
Teo Velissaris, November 16, 2022
Teo Velissaris provides an exposition on the dictatorship of the proletariat, arguing that it remains a conceptually necessary element to any Marxist understanding of socialism and democracy. Read Article.
Thousands of Rail Workers Railroaded by the Teamsters Bureaucracy!
Edgar Esquivel, November 11, 2022
Edgar Esquivel reports on the recent contract negotiations of Teamsters-represented U.S. railroad workers and contextualizes the current struggle within the long history of militant railroad worker organizing. Read Article.
“Red" Terror in Cambodia by Francisco Martins Rodrigues
Vasco de Silva, November 9, 2022
Translation and introduction by Vasco de Silva . The translated article was originally published in the May/June 1986 edition of Workers´ Policy. Read Article.