Skip to content
Politics · Socialism · Sports & Culture Search

Category

Articles

1,737 posts, 2005–2026
1 min read

A dangerous cast of mind

In his role as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts evinces a personna that he is above partisan politics, an independent arbiter of the law, nothing more. But he is anything but. A close look at his voting…

2 min read

The UAW and concessionary bargaining

The weakening of the left (and the Communist Party in particular) in the auto industry and the UAW was a factor in the making of “The Treaty of Detroit,” in 1950, but not the main one. As I see it,…

1 min read

If anybody asked me

If anybody asked me — and I doubt if anybody will — I would suggest that August 28, the anniversay of the 1963 Freedom March, be turned into a day when all the streams of the working class and people’s…

1 min read

No matter what the stakes

A section of the left is wedded to a view of the Democratic Party – and it goes back more than a half century – that resists any adjustments in its thinking and practice no matter the alignment of class…

1 min read

A structural flaw

The events of recent weeks have revealed a structural flaw in and a dangerous feature of our political system insofar as the president can decide, practically speaking, whether or not the country goes to war irrespective of what Congress and…