Author: Johanna

  • Afghanistan: The End of the Occupation

    Afghanistan: The End of the Occupation

    First, the Taliban have defeated the United States. Second, the Taliban have won because they have more popular support. Third, this is not because most Afghans love the Taliban. It is because the American occupation has been unbearably cruel and corrupt. Fourth, the War on Terror has also been politically defeated in the United States.…

  • A New MAS Era in Bolivia

    Under new leadership, the MAS won a decisive victory. Now, economic crisis and a complicated situation for the regional Left will pose major challenges for the new government.  The polls in Bolivia closed at 5pm but as midnight approached with no official results, or even exit polls or quick counts, suspicions and tensions were growing.…

  • Why the Working Class and the Rank & File Strategy

    Labor Notes: Workers’ Struggles 2017 (photos: James Leder; Susan Ruggles (CC BY 2.0) bit.ly/DiaSinInmigrantes; SEIU Healthcare Illinois and Indiana; Dan DiMaggio) At the Boston DSA/Solidarity Socialist Day School in September, the centrality of the working class to the fight for socialism was the topic of the second panel of the day. [Listen to it HERE]…

  • Disablement, Oppression, and Political Economy

    It is often claimed that disabled persons are invisible, disregarded by mainstream society, and irrelevant to the workings of society. This analysis has attempted to explain that the “unemployables” have been deliberately shut out of the labor force due to a capitalist economy that so far has dictated their exclusion by measure of economic calculations…

  • DSA Convention 2019—Overcoming Divisions—Votes to Maintain Strong National Organization, Takes up Ambitious Organizing Agenda

    Some 1,056 delegates to the Democratic Socialist of America convention, representing around 55,000 DSA members, met in Atlanta over the weekend and voted to adopt a series of resolutions that will continue to build a strong national organization capable of carrying out ambitious campaigns in labor and community organizing as well as electoral politics. The…

  • AT WAR: a Film about Class Struggle

    AT WAR: a Film about Class Struggle

    Few films portray working people realistically. One thinks of rare movies such as Hollywood’s Norma Rae, the independent Salt of the Earth, Sergei Eisenstein’s Strike or the Italian classic, The Organizer. These films portray struggle mixed with joy, no matter the success or failure of the plot line. So the appearance of At War, is…

  • Capitalism and Monopolies: Is Regulation the Answer?

    Capitalism and Monopolies: Is Regulation the Answer?

    With The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition, Jonathan Tepper and Denise Hearn have written a succinct, well organized, and very readable survey of concentration and monopolization in the contemporary US economy. It is to their credit that they by and large steer clear of theory for most of the book and…

  • Yellow Vest Movement Still Going Strong

    Yellow Vest Movement Still Going Strong

    Dear Friends, Colleagues, Comrades, I am writing you from France, where I am a participant-observer in the Yellow Vest movement, which is still going strong after six months, despite a dearth of information in the international media. My report follows. This unique, original social movement has enormous international significance. It has already succeeded in shattering…

  • Four Years of Forgotten War on Yemen

    In four years of aggression against Yemen, what has been produced? An humanitarian crisis for the Yemeni people: The United Nations says nearly 100 civilians are killed or injured every week. Air strikes have killed or wounded 37 children a month in the past 12 months. According to Save the Children, air strikes were the…

  • May Day: Workers’ Struggles, International Solidarity, Political Aspirations

    A pamphlet for May Day, published by Socialist Project. Below an excerpt from the pamphlet that includes a speech by Eleanor Marx on the first May Day at a rally held in Hyde Park (London), 1890. We have not come to do the work of political parties, but we have come here in the cause…