Fight the Constitution! Demand a New Republic!
Ben Grove, March 25, 2021
Ben Grove proposes a radical New Union Act to throw the antiquated US Constitution into the dustbin of history. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Read Article.
The Second International Socialist Congress of Women in Copenhagen (1910)
March 8, 2021
First published in Die Gleichheit, 25 (1910), pp. 387-390 Read Article.
The Platform is the Message
Renato Flores, March 6, 2021
Amelia Davenport and Renato Flores argue that social media cannot be ignored despite its negative effects on modern culture. Instead, the left needs its own approach to social media that takes into account the values encoded into tech platforms. Read Article.
Mission Statement of the Marxist Unity Slate
March 3, 2021
This is a reprint of the mission statement of Marxist Unity Slate, a set of proposals for the 2021 DSA convention with the aim of fostering democratic discipline and principled election campaigns, as well as uniting Marxists in DSA around a vision of a mass socialist party. The proposals can be read and signed here. Reading: Matt Strupp. Read Article.
Create a Mass Party!
Cliff Connolly, February 25, 2021
Cliff Connolly critiques CounterPower’s vision of the “party of autonomy” and offers an alternative vision of the mass party. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Read Article.
Party and Subject: A Reply to Donald Parkinson
Taylor B, February 20, 2021
Taylor B continues the debate on political subjectivity, revolutionary strategy and the party-form, responding to Donald Parkinson's Without a Party, We Have Nothing. Read Article.
Discovering the Cybernetic Brain
Amelia Davenport, February 14, 2021
Amelia Davenport interviews philosopher of science and historian of cybernetics Andrew Pickering. Read Article.
Other Witherings: On Family Abolition and Defense
Cam Scott, February 11, 2021
Social Conservative defenses of the nuclear family pose it as the default natural form of kinship and blame working-class immiseration on its decline. Cam Scott takes aim at such arguments, including those made by leftists. Read Article.
Escaping the Labour Left ‘Safety Valve’: Towards Dual Power in Britain
Alfie Hancox, February 11, 2021
Is the UK Labour Party a possible vehicle for working-class emancipation? Alfie Hancox argues in the negative, posing the regroupment of communists independent of the Labour Party as an alternative. Read Article.
Lenin and Art by Lunacharsky
Cliff Connolly, January 21, 2021
In honor of Lenin on the anniversary of his death, we publish this short essay by Lunacharsky on Lenin's views regarding art. This text was originally published in “Khudozhnik i Zritel” (Artist and Audience), issues 2-3, March-April 1924, and has been translated by Reuben Woolley. Introduction by Cliff Connolly. The original source of the translation can be found here. Read Article.