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Yes, There Were 10 Good Things About 2021

Medea Benjamin Common Dreams
It was, indeed, a disastrous year, but we do have some reasons to cheer -- and if we could win victories in a year as bad as 2021, just think what we can accomplish in 2022. 

Voting While Black

Fredreka Schouten CNN
How activists are racing to create a midterm Black wave.

In and Against the State

Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin Socialist Project
Here, ‘reform versus revolution’ is not a useful way to frame the dilemmas that socialists must actually confront. Political hopes are inseparable from notions of what is possible.

Avoiding a DFR Charge under Tougher New Rules

Richard de Vries Labor Notes
A union can now be found guilty of violating the duty of fair representation (DFR) for losing track of a grievance or failing to promptly return a member’s phone calls about it.

Trump Is Running Scared of Socialism

Miles Kampf-Lassin Jacobin
Donald Trump’s economic advisers released a bizarre report attacking socialism yesterday. Socialists can only take one lesson from it: we’re winning.