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Realists (Mamdani, AOC) seek immersion in mass politics; fundamentalists oppose it.

Why, amongst all socialist organizations, DSA is the one which has grown so dramatically?

Like the slave owners, the MAGA movement and its allies are opposed only to those aspects of government that they can’t wield against their enemies. They will happily enlarge the scope of federal authority beyond the limits of our Constitution.

An average of one to two Starlink satellites are deorbiting each day in 2025

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

Communities across the United States are shutting down detention facilities and refusing to cooperate with immigration enforcement.

Social self-defense against the MAGA juggernaut can be the starting point for creating the world we want beyond MAGA.

UAW president Shawn Fain, speaking at a Center for Working-Class Politics and Jacobin event, emphasized the need for a political program that addresses workers’ most basic issues — and how a broad strike in 2028 could put them front and center.

“Congress continues to expand military spending while denying investments in the programs that will truly build a safer, healthier future for working- and middle-class families,” said Sen. Ed Markey, who voted no.

Workers must organize for power, while capitalists wield it individually through property rights. This fundamental asymmetry, creates a chain of obstacles that make working-class collective action uniquely difficult.