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Articles by Todd Chretien
Decision Time at DSA
Fourteen hundred delegates from around the country attended the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) convention in Chicago last month under the shadow of Donald Trump’s expanding authoritarianism. Votes there reshaped significant internal practices, established political guidelines for the coming years, and demonstrated widespread agreement on the centrality of stopping the genocide in Gaza, building up labor unions, and growing the socialist movement.
Portland, Maine Voters Delivered a Series of Huge Working-Class Victories on Election Day
On November 3, voters in Portland, Maine delivered a stinging rebuke to Mayor Kate Snyder and all but one city councilor by voting overwhelmingly to back four out of five referenda placed on the ballot by People First Portland (PFP).
The Rich in Portland, Maine, Are Spending Big Money to Defeat Left Politics
How much does an election cost in Portland, Maine? The Chamber of Commerce, real estate developers, and Airbnb’s corporate offices are hoping it’s around $1 million. With just days to go, opponents of five progressive referenda sponsored by People First Portland are pouring money into direct mailers (I’ve received dozens in the last two weeks), Facebook ads, and high-price social media advertising.
Over 4,000 Shipbuilding Workers Are on Strike in Maine
Some 4,300 members of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Local Lodge S6 are on strike against Bath Iron Works (BIW) in Bath, Maine. Workers voted with an overwhelming majority of 87 percent to strike when their current contract expired at midnight, June 22.
A cancer that produces racism
Mass incarceration and bloated police departments are major incubators of some of the most reactionary ideas in society, writes Todd Chretien. IN THE wake of the grand jury decisions in Ferguson and Staten Island, tens of thousands have marched, occupied city halls and university buildings, and blocked city streets and highways in the biggest wave of direct action since Occupy.
The Death Agony of the Monarchy: Russia on the Eve of Revolution
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicated a hundred years ago today, bringing to an end three centuries of Romanov rule. In this extract from his History of the Russian Revolution, Trotsky describes the final days of Imperial Russia. Incompetent, vain, and almost comically ignorant of the historic events unfolding around it, the Tsarist regime fell, in Trotsky's words, "like rotten fruit." Skobelev Square during the February Revolution, by A.M. Gerasimov. Open Source.
Revolutionary Socialists in the Democratic-Socialist Moment
Over the course of forty-plus years of neoliberal offensive, revolutionary socialists in groups like the International Socialist Organization, of which I was a member until its recent dissolution, performed the valuable service of helping keep Marxist ideas alive by insisting that class struggle would eventually revive, that the Left should not limit its prospects solely to the confines of the Democratic Party, and that capitalism itself would soon enough force socialism and revolution back...
Revolutionary Socialists in the Democratic-Socialist Moment
Over the course of forty-plus years of neoliberal offensive, revolutionary socialists in groups like the International Socialist Organization, of which I was a member until its recent dissolution, performed the valuable service of helping keep Marxist ideas alive by insisting that class struggle would eventually revive, that the Left should not limit its prospects solely to the confines of the Democratic Party, and that capitalism itself would soon enough force socialism and revolution back...
Solidarity With Glenn Greenwald
Journalist Glenn Greenwald is once again rocking international politics by exposing state violations of civil liberties. This time, his reporting targets the highest levels of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s cabinet. In the United States, Greenwald is best known for publishing whistleblower Edward Snowden’s disclosure of illegal National Security Administration surveillance programs in the Guardian in 2013.
Getting organized for a socialist future
Many more people in the U.S. are interested in socialism today than in several generations. But what does that mean practically? Todd Chretien , editor of Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution , has some suggestions. You can fill in the blank: the Muslim ban, immigrant family separation, tax cuts for billionaires, gutting the Environmental Protection Agency, wrecking Obamacare, rescinding protections for transgender public school students, saying he grabs women by the pussy.
Thinking and Voting Outside the Two-Party Box: An Interview With Jill Stein
Dr. Jill Stein speaks at the Green Party Presidential Candidate Town Hall hosted by the Green Party of Arizona at the Mesa Public Library in Mesa, Arizona, on March 12, 2016. (Photo: Gage Skidmore) Dr. Jill Stein is a leading member of the Green Party and its likely presidential candidate in 2016.
How Does Theory Guide Practice? A Response to Salar Mohandesi on State and Revolution
This is an installment in a series of articles debating Salar Mohandesi’s “The Actuality of Revolution: Reflections on Lenin’s State and Revolution.” Also see the responses by Malcolm Harris and Pham Binh, as well as Mohandesi’s final response. Petrograd Military Committee of the Bolsheviks, July 1917.
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