“The whole electoral process is a means of validating the rule of capital over labor…. The needs of the (capitalist) system and the needs of life on this planet, including human life, […]
Debate within Socialist Alternative
The open support for liberal Democrat Bernie Sanders by Socialist Alternative provoked a debate within that group back in the first part of 2016. In response, the leadership of Socialist Alternative sent […]
Notes on the work of Theodore Allen & Lerone Bennett Jr.
The work of Theodore Allen (The Invention of the White Race, 1994 & 1997) presents a powerful argument for class as the underlying unifier in capitalist society and against ‘race’ as […]
The Future International
THE FUTURE INTERNATIONAL Socialists and the movement against capitalism by Roger Silverman This discussion document is an attempt to suggest how socialists should best approach the current worldwide movement against capitalism. It […]
British EU vote: “Lexit” or “Rexit”?
Note: The socialists who support Britain leaving the European Union console themselves by calling for a left exit or “lexit”. This is like somebody preparing to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge and […]
President Trump/Sanders, Congress, and the US Constitution
They wrote the US Constitution for contingencies exactly like this. On the one hand, there is Bernie Sanders. Free higher public education? End “Citizens United” to “take the money out of politics”? Change […]
The Gathering Storm
Workers and youth in the United States and around the world should pause and think about what is happening. The Western media is talking a lot about the Islamic State seizing power in […]
Islamic State: The Rise of a Fascist Movement
Beheadings, mass slaughter, terrorist bombings — all of this is accompanying the advance of the Islamic State with its recent victories in Palmyra, Syria, and Mosul, Iraq. These are having repercussions around […]
Elections and the workers’ movement
In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave revolt that shook up the entire slave owning South. His revolt was just one of many. It was followed 28 years later by John Brown’s […]
What is Revolution?
A new movement is underway in the United States. Many of those who make up this movement are looking for a road to revolution. From the introduction to this new pamphlet: Revolution, […]