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!

In the second installment of a new series, M. Sanchez responds to Trump's claim that communism is the "enemy of July 4th, 1776". In this 21st-century communist manifesto, M. Sanchez looks back, far past when Marx first put pen to paper, to trace communism's deep roots in American history.

The opening essay in a new series from M. Sanchez on the importance of communist politics in America's long, arduous history. The answer to the ongoing political, economic, and social crisis: communist politics.

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.