DSA’s vote to expel Nithya Raman or punish the LA chapter is an existential threat to the Left of Los Angeles. By analyzing the balance of forces and allegations against Raman, Matthew J. Hunter and P.K. Gandakin argue against this dangerous move to undermine the working class movement in LA. This internal repression must be rejected if we want mass revolutionary politics. 

Pollsters can tell you what voters will tolerate. They can’t tell you what people will fight for. In T. E. Moon’s latest, he tackles the limits of poll-tested politics, the hunger for accountability, and a modest proposal for the left: Hang the Bastards!

Angela Gonzales-Torres' opponent in the race for California's 34th Congressional District, Jimmy Gomez, has been accused of sexual assault. In her latest, Lydia Cardwell examines DSA-endorsed Angela Gonzales-Torres' campaign, the Left’s struggles with misogyny in its own movement, and the necessity to fight against the Right not just as fascists, but as a political movement structured around enacting violence against women.

Policy gains are unlikely so long as Trump holds the presidency — but a historically large socialist bloc in Congress could demand changes to how the House is run that would shape the body’s post-Trump trajectory.

Theories of socialism have tended to overemphasize the capitalist structure and diminish the role of democratic struggle and popular will. But without millions of people struggling for a cause—one which transcends the limits of what has been conceptualized as ‘structure’—we will not have accomplished our goals as a movement.