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☭🌹National @demsocialists caucus. We believe in rebuilding class organization and supporting the class struggle against capital. Co-editors of @dsapartisan .
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In August, over a hundred communists from across the US will converge to reflect on today's class struggle for our first in-person national convention. Help to make this happen by generously contributing to our convention travel fund!
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Approaches to labor organizing that were previously dismissed are now picking up steam. From shotgun-style Starbucks organizing to a successful independent Amazon union, we are seeing bottom-up organizing and initiative work.
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Shameful article. It does not even try to make an argument for why "mass politics" equals "elections." It paints anyone asking questions about an elections-centered strategy as "subcultural anarchists." Not only is this unprincipled, it treats the reader as if they are stupid.
Bernie Sanders is out of the race, but we can’t retreat to the subcultural politics that were hegemonic on the Left before his campaigns began. Mass politics is still our way forward.
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This is a major escalation that could spiral into major labor unrest. Note that UC is California’s biggest employer. Also note that UC president Napolitano is the former secretary of Homeland Security.
UC president Janet Napolitano sent a letter tonight threatening to fire hundreds of UC Santa Cruz grad students, on wildcat strike all week to demand higher wages. Santa Cruz is least affordable small city in the U.S.
On assignment with
@MotherJones
@payusmoreucsc
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Our caucus stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people's struggle for national liberation and emancipation. Their fight against military occupation, land dispossession, ethnic cleansing, and racist apartheid are foundational aspects of the class struggle, past and present.
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This is what you get when your guiding light is pure resentment: a pre-potted interpretation of the largest US left organization that is, in truth, complex and multi-faceted.
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A major strategic riddle for today's left is the absolute decline in civic organization. What we see is atomization of people, especially working class people, in every facet of life: a decline in parties, membership orgs, informal groups. This has been bad for class struggle.
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The last thing both the liberals and conservatives want to see us multi-racial working class solidarity. This is partly what animated their positions on the current rebellions.
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Turning DSA into a Bernie-Canvass-Machine does not activate the working class outside of liberal politics. We need to build independent proletarian institutions.
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Healthy reminder that the US is not a full democracy but a bourgeois republic with an undemocratic senate, electoral college, court system, etc. It's anti-democratic functions are intentional. We cannot have a strategy that treats this terrain as neutral or favorable.
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2018: 28%
2019: 36%
We're just getting started.
36% of millennials polled say that they approve of communism, which is up significantly from 28% in 2018.
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The US labor movement is fundamentally broken.
But we respectfully take a different view when it comes to the call for the AFL-CIO to cut ties with IUPA. First and foremost, we believe police officers, and everyone who works for a living, have the right to collective bargaining.
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Some prints made in preparation for our first in-personal national convention.
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Only class struggle will change our world. Substituting the class struggle with politicians is dangerously wrong.
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We're up at 3am today with teachers, successfully blocked all scheduled shipments to a central kitchen of the Oakland school district
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We're happy to contribute to the war on Christmas by announcing our national launch. You can now see our updated statement, learn how to join, and read other items on our website:
☭🌹🎅
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"Questioned over his refusal to participate in the American military during World War I, he said it was a “war for the great millionaire[s]” and questioned why he should fight on behalf of the capitalist class"
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We condemn the disturbing actions taken by "Red Guards Austin." Violent sectarianism doesn't build working class power. It doesn't allow for strategic clarity. It does nothing to change the balance of power between capital and labor. It is irresponsible and reprehensible.
Today I was assaulted by members of the Red Guard Austin following their attempted disruption of our biggest canvass to date.
We shall not be moved.
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There are reasons to have optimism with the DSA, despite the very disappointing news about the BDS working group. For one thing, Palestinian solidarity, including BDS, remains extremely popular within the organization as members across the country have made abundantly clear.
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After Bernie's defeat we see: liberal centrist consolidation in the Democratic Party, and a renewed Republican Party effort at minoritarian rule. Under these conditions, maintaining the dominant strategy of leveraging elections via the Democratic Party is difficult to justify.
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We need to build regional tenant unions. We need to prepare for an ongoing eviction wave. We need to agitate tenants to fight back. This was predictable and it wont be the last time something similar happens—let’s get organized for the long-term.
Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT ENDS FEDERAL EVICTION MORATORIUM
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A
@labornotes
panel including ALU, Teamsters, UAW, CTU, and Starbucks United. Incredible energy. Labor militancy is on the table! 🚩✊
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The liberal response to this anti-war statement is telling. Liberals demanding that NATO/US take military action in Ukraine have no serious plan for sustained peace. Just like their support for prior interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, they demand peace through war.
From the National Political Committee: DSA condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and demands immediate diplomacy and de-escalation to resolve this crisis. 1/3
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Do not be confused. Non profits are unrehabilatatively trash. They are here to take the wind out of the sails of the class movement. They serve to funnel people into toothless forms of politics. And many ngos actively sabotage working class rebellion when it arises.
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Socialism requires a political horizon set on doing away with capitalism as a mode of production. This will require deep, intense and difficult transformations in our society that go well beyond shifting the state's money from one thing to another.
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The US judicial branch, including the Supreme Court, is flagrantly anti-democratic. It’s an elite-guided institution installed to protect against democratic change. It was designed to be a barrier to any bottom-up change.
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This weekend, we hosted a DSA Convention fundraiser party at
@ueunion
’s union hall, and we raised over 3,000 dollars for striking UE Wabtec workers in Ernie, PA. It was a banger!
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We are against the wealthy. Why? Because wealth is what enables them to dominate society. Moralizing will not change how class society works.
We’re not “against” the wealthy.
We just don’t believe they have a right to dominate our society.
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The working class needs fundamentally different organizational forms than our class enemies. The destruction of capital and its sources of social power, as well as the reconstruction of a new form of society, give us unique problems that are not shared by the liberals.
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Given the budget crisis engulfing DSA, we in Communist Caucus are compelled to examine the political moment which we find ourselves in, and ask what kind of organization DSA needs to become to weather it. We offer four thesis on the current situation:
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French workers killed Macron’s retirement austerity! Yet another example for why we need to organize extra-parliamentary power here.
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Jacobin‘s staff was absolutely central for bolstering a strategy that put all the eggs in the Bernie basket. Their position has done no small part in disabling the left.
The DNC is the four-yearly apotheosis of the Democratic Party's love of progressive symbolism and empty rhetoric in place of real political vision. This year, it's not even committing to that.
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Liberalism is the depoliticization of space except the designated channels where politics is expressed. And in these spaces, bourgeois rule is a given. It is the boss, the politician who has power, not us. But the role of communists is to re-politicize daily life.
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All our top NPC picks have won! Our convention strategy was to abstain from running our own members and support a broad slate of left NPC candidates. Our approach this year bore fruit—a majority left NPC will be seated.
Congratulations to our 2023-2025 National Political Committee. The 2023 DSA National Convention has been adjourned.
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Here is our analysis of the current situation. The essay includes a critical assessment from Occupy through Bernie's 2016 run and into the present. We argue that proletarian disorganization is the central startegic problem of our time.
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The working class does not own the cities they inhabit. We did build this world though. And if we have to wreck it for Justice, so be it.
How does looting, rioting and destroying your OWN community bring justice for anyone?
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We do not support Howie Hawkins for president. Similarly, we were critical of the uncritical support for the Bernie Sanders campaign that came from many corners of the DSA. That's because we have a principled criticism of electoral politics as a mechanism for building power.
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We stand with the ~80 graduate students that
@ucsc
fired today. They stood and continue to stand for justice. A COLA is not the only thing on the line; public education has reached a crisis point. The neoliberalization of public ed must end now.
#UCSC
#Solidarity
In addition to the 54 initial firings, up to 30 more received this one-sentence message a few hours later. No explanation, no contract violations cited, no union reps included in the email. The total number of firings is now closer to 80.
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Mike Davis has always been an inspiration for us. He spoke with us just last summer about the current conjuncture. We lean on Mike’s work for thinking about politics; the left and all emancipatory movements have benefited from his organizing and his words. May he rest in peace.
The Nation has learned that Mike Davis, author and activist, radical hero and family man, has died after a long struggle with esophageal cancer.
@JonWiener1
, a friend and co-author, wrote his obit:
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With a Biden-Harris executive looming, it may become necessary to draw even more clearcut distinctions between the DSA and the Democratic Party. The socialist left must ensure that it is not easily associated with whatever disasters this new sequence may bring.
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There is no automatic left politicization of capitalist crisis—not this one, nor any other. It is our job to do what we can to add a political frame to the crisis, and to try to build organizational structures that put the working class into an advantageous position.
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The major problem facing the socialist movement is not about the demise of redistributive social policy. The major problem we must face is the disorganization of the working class.
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The teachers’ strike wave is beautiful and inspiring. Let’s make waves of struggle throughout capital: a rent strike wave, a transit fare strike wave, service worker walkout wave, student debt strike wave...
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The difference between "pro-labor liberals" and socialists must be made as clear as possible for all to see. Disruptive strikes are exactly what's needed in our time. Mass, disruptive actions taken by the working class can break apart the decades of austerity and marketization.
As a proud pro-labor President, I'm reluctant to override the ratification procedures and views of those who voted against the agreement.
But in this case – where the economic impact of a shutdown would hurt millions – I believe Congress must use its powers to adopt this deal.
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Let's take advantage of this era of relative freedom and be openly communist. A situation like this has not and will not always be the case.
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It is through struggle that workers become aware of their common interest. That's what class conciousness is, and how it is formed. We can't get it through voting or reading groups. We get it through struggle. Until then we are not a class except in a passive, formal sense.
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The US is a place where a mass left-wing has been largely beaten back by forces of reaction. The US left is, at best, extremely weak and, at worst, practically non-existent. It's for this reason that both right and left-wing opportunisms can come so easily.
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Bhaskar's words here miss the point. It would be idealist to think that the issue before us is one of persuasion of ideas. To think this is to accept that struggle actually does take place under liberal's preferred conditions of rational deliberation and discussion. They don't.
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Our
@organizeworkers
amendment—which will outfit local DSA chapters with EWOC programs to push new labor organizing—passed with a wide mandate! ♠️
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Though R20 has failed, 43% of delegates voted in favor. This close vote represents progress in raising awareness on what socialist housing organizing will look like: independent, democratic tenant unions are the future of the struggle against commodified housing!
#DSACon2021
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1. "Militant property destruction has been a successful tactic for resisting oppression in America since the 18th century. The real reason politicians condemn this tactic is they know the enormous political pressure it puts on them."
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We're excited to announce a housing resolution dedicated to building new autonomous tenant unions for the 2021 DSA National Convention! If passed, DSA members will be given the training needed to form new autonomous tenant unions throughout the country.
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Labor Notes
@labornotes
is truly the labor movement’s spearhead. The working class demands a free Palestine.
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Our housing organizing (
@TANCBay
) has scored a win in the East Bay. A large landlord (40 properties) caved. Her subtenant policy now allows current tenants to choose their own housemates regardless of credit score and job type. 🚩🏴
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Very dramatic at the OUSD offices right now. Union leadership just tried to call off the pickets going on outside. Over a thousand teachers disobeying, continuing to picket, chanting "vote no" "hold the line until we sign" on tentative agreement
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The Economist is a bad magazine with even worse ideas.
Jair Bolsonaro is a dangerous populist, with some good ideas
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Let's drop the fetish of the "small landlord" just as we drop the fetish for the "small business owner." Each of these are the traditional base for reactionary politics.
Small landlords need to realize that they are the exception, not the rule
Regardless, landlords shouldn't exist
Housing shouldn't be a commodity
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A "winning or losing" attitude is not a good way to assess progress to our goal of overthrowing class society. Sometimes you "lose" and nevertheless build decisive capacity. Sometimes a "win" appears, but it degenerates into a bitter, unhelpful substance later on.
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Building a solid anti-capitalist tenant movement composed of mass tenant unions, along with a strong communist tendency within it, will be an elemental prerequisite for any future communist movement or party formation in the US.
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DSA is far from perfect. But membership does allow you can have a political life, meet comrades of various tendencies, have actually meaningful debates, and pursue necessary organizing projects. That's why we're doing the hard work of building a communist presence within it.
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We need to focus attention on non-electoral organizing more than ever. Endorsement is simply the incorrect direction for a modern socialist organization.
Democratic Socialists of America is proud to endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders for president! 🎉 We’re building a mass movement to take on the billionaires and win a society that puts people over profit. Join us
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The Oakland teacher strike is NOT OVER! Widespread agreement that the tentative agreement SUCKS. People picketed today in defiance of OEA and were chanting "VOTE NO," chanting that we can get more, and that the strike is being ended prematurely
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Wherever you are, find your local tenants union and join it. If there isn't one, build it. If our wages are going to fall, we sure as hell need to make rent go down with it.
In this moment of intense uncertainly, we need to have each others back. And if we're going to have each other's back, we've got to be organized.
Join the tenant union!
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Last night, we voted to endorse this call for Kurdish support. We are internationalists. Rojava must be defended.
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Let's not be so shocked that 58 US senators, including 8 Democrats, just voted against a $15 minimum wage hike. The US senate was constructed as an anti-democratic barrier against basic popular democracy. Looks like the thing still works as intended!
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The tenant struggle is an emerging site of struggle because housing is becoming an increasingly important site of accumulation.
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DSA-affiliated elected officials in Los Angeles must stand with the
@LATenantsUnion
—the largest working-class tenant union in the country—to retain the eviction moratorium and tenant protections.
DSA members: please sign the open letter👇
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4th of July wish list:
- abolish ICE
- replace it with nothing at all.
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We stand with the Santa Cruz strikers. Today is day one of their open-ended wildcat strike. Their fight is not only inspiring, but also sheds light on a new strategy of worker action regardless of no-strike clauses.
We’ve taken over the main entrance! Cops off campus, COLA in our bank accounts!
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The working class built this world. And we’ll do it again, immediately after we unmake this one. Happy May Day!
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Excited to announce that five CC members have been seated on the steering committee of DSA's national housing working group,
@dsa_housing
! Baron (Oklahoma City), Gary (Lexington), Jade (Omaha), Sarah (Boston) and Taylor (Houston) have big plans for the future of DSA housing.
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Biden wins. The imperial presidency has been "restored" of its former acceptability, and the Democratic Party been once more captured by a mixture of neoliberal centrists from both sides of the isle.
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Noel Ignatiev, steelworker turned Marxist theorist, has died. "Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity."
Rest In Peace.
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The liberal project is about reducing politics to the ballot box. That’s because the US electoral system is structured to induce outcomes that accommodate the state quo. We have to make sure what we have on offer departs from this disempowering view in fundamental ways.
The fires across the West Coast are just the latest examples of the very real ways our changing climate is changing our communities. Protecting our planet is on the ballot. Vote like your life depends on it—because it does.
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This society is rotten to its core. Let's change it.
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What's the most potentially devastating about a Bernie rout is how little our organization has prepared for it. A long time ago we called for a more thoughtful approach to DSA's approach to Bernie.
His loss electoral does not have to be our loss.
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Convention is over and we are pleased with our contribution. We had 38 caucus members and well over 60 Friends of the Communist Caucus (FCC) delegates in attendance. We were able to add an undercurrent of mass work communist politics into the democratic process.
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If all you are doing is building electoral support for a candidate, you aren't doing class organizing.
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Want to be a better communist in 2022? Here are some tips for building the movements that will bring about a new world.
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We sincerely hope for a Sanders win, since it would certainly enable class struggle. But any sober strategy for building durable sites of proletarian power won't hinge on a candidate winning the most powerful position in today's capitalist system. Whatever happens, no despair!
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The Oakland school board has been trying to shut public schools down and reopen them as private charters. Unacceptable! Teachers and community members have shut down the board meeting.
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We stand in solidarity with comrades facing off with fascists in Portland today. Fascism can not be ignored—it’s historical purpose has always been to destroy working class power.
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We are excited to announce that we have voted to affiliate with the Marxist Center!
@MarxistCenter
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Anyone who has spent a significant amount of time on the left knows that every org has its problems, and a functional org will tend to have an internal left-right spectrum as well. To say otherwise tells us more about the person making such a banal statement than anything else.
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Striking workers at UC Santa Cruz have been regularly holding open the campus dining halls, allowing staff and students to eat for free.
#Solidarity
#ThursdayMotivation
Food at Porter and Rachel Carson dining halls is liberated. Come eat for free and bring Tupperware if you can.
#COLA
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We live in an age of compounding capitalist crises. Under these conditions, socialist practice can't focus on managing things as they exist. We're not here to get minor improvements within the parameters of the status quo. We're here to help force decisive, structural change.
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We're at a crossroads. The Biden-Harris presidency is a double victory: one over the presidential race, and another over the most recent leg of the Dem Party's civil war. We speculate that there is a coming impasse for left electoral politics.
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The lifeline of the proletarian power in the US has always been inextricably connected to Black proletarian struggle.
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Check out this Panthers' 1968 suggested reading list:
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