Read the fall issue of Democratic Left, including an interview with @AdyBarkan, lessons from the Indian farmers’ movement, and reflections on @Indiawaltonbflo’s primary victory: https://t.co/ssMwzF9ySl

With inspiration from its sister union in Milwaukee, the Madison teachers’ union recentered its mission to focus on social and racial justice, and to highlight that it had a responsibility to uphold an accessible, equitable, and public education system.

“What would I have said to @SpeakerPelosi if I had more time with her? I’d say that I think Medicare for All is the right policy to address the magnitude of what’s wrong with the health care system in this country.” An interview with @AdyBarkan.

At a time when the United States faces internal problems that threaten its very claim to be a democracy, what can leftists learn from struggles in other democracies at risk?

“It matters how a city treats its underclass”: A bus driver in Seattle reflects on what the pandemic has revealed and continuing to find hope, even as our institutions fail us.

How can we convince those who gave up everything to escape a system called socialist to understand the benefits of socialism?

How the Madison teachers’ union took a deep approach to revitalization centered on racial and social justice.

“As I developed my socialist views, I poured myself deeper into organizing because I could not bear to live in a reality that accepted the alternative: a crumbling democracy, an epidemic of racism, a broken healthcare system.” An interview with @AdyBarkan.

“@BuffaloDSA is far more passionate about our candidate than the establishment is about theirs, and when the energy of grassroots volunteers is well organized, we can win,” a chapter member said, of campaigning for @Indiawaltonbflo.

My personal reflection on the two September 11th in my life and a tribute to those who "fought for someone they didn't know" against both military dictatorship and imperialism (via the @DemLeftMag) https://t.co/U5kHYxDVLV

.@RossBarkan’s new book argues that Governor Cuomo’s seeming success was always a fraud.

“Andrew Cuomo is unlikely to regain his former popularity anytime soon, but it’s still worth studying his response to the pandemic. We should be glad to have reporting, like @RossBarkan’s, that brings it to light.” THE PRINCE reviewed by @DemLeftMag:

"[Cuomo] resisted funding relief for tenants, and preferred gutting state services over raising taxes on the rich; only a progressive state legislature, including 6 DSA members, could force him to act in the interests of working people." Read all about it

Although he has resigned as governor, it’s still worth studying Andrew Cuomo’s incompetent response to the pandemic, as his failures typify the damage wrought by neoliberal governance.

By centering Black struggles against racial slavery, colonization, and capitalism, Cedric J. Robinson offers a critique of orthodox Marxism, providing an alternative historical and structural understanding of the capitalist world-system.

“Solidarity is about acknowledging that our oppressions are connected and that the only true freedom is collective freedom,” Marian Jones writes.

“We will need hundreds, thousands of people taking direct action,” a DSA member fighting to #StopLine3 said. “DSA can make a real difference if we mobilize people to come to Minnesota and put their bodies in front of that equipment.”

Going beyond wage-labor relations in the industrial center, Black Marxism forces the Left to reckon with resistances that have often been invisible to orthodox Marxists.

“Everyone should be a member of @DemSocialists, and everyone should be proud of being a DSA member.” An interview with @sunraysunray.

“They ask me to come back to work. Nothing about this situation makes rational sense. But the market compels it.” Reflections on returning to work at a restaurant.