THE WORKERIST MANIFESTO

  What happened to the International Socialists (U.S.)?  The 1970s still looms large in the imagination of the dwindling numbers of veterans of the New Left in the United States. The generational shift from campus activism and labor support work in the latter years of the Vietnam War to “industrializing” in the big factories, assembly plants, and mills was an important political development. Inspired by the strike waves and rebellion in the trade unions, thousands of former students, many of whom were members of a bewildering array of competing Stalinist, Maoist, and Trotskyist groups, including the International Socialists (IS), sought to build revolutionary parties in the U.S. working class. Yet, despite the enthusiasm and political commitment of many talented people, this political project was a failure. By the late 1970s, the rank-and-file rebellion was over, and the “party-building” projects of many groups had collapsed and disintegrated, in many cases with great regrets,...

  Tiananmen Is Not Just China’s Story The 1989 crackdown reinforced a political order that made independent worker organizing nearly impossible. The effects have been felt across the global economy Tiananmen Is Not Just China’s Story – The Diplomat

  Theory Betrayed: An Essay on Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?  Theory Betrayed: An Essay on Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? (Part One) - Historical Materialism Theory Betrayed: An Essay on Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? (Part Two) - Historical Materialism Theory Betrayed: An Essay on Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? (Part Three) - Historical Materialism Theory Betrayed: An Essay on Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? (Part Four) - Historical Materialism

  Fight the Constitution! Demand a New Republic! Jenna Grove proposes a radical New Union Act to throw the antiquated US Constitution into the dustbin of history Down with the Old Order. We’re sick of this divided republic. It slices up our institutions to make them unaccountable. It lets Mitch McConnell and the Electoral College and nine old men stomp on the needs of the people. It locks the working class majority out of power; it gives us no say in the future of the country Fight the Constitution! Demand a New Republic!

" Socialism With American Characteristics" the Popular Front and the fall of the Communist Party, USA   Socialism With American Characteristics

  The state of the unions in the U.S. The state of the unions in the U.S. - Tempest