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A Coup Is Coming. Only the Socialist Left Can Stop It.

Sam Lewis Convergence
MAGA is clear about its intent to attempt a coup, centrist forces at the heart of the Democratic Party will be unable to resist it. We need a movement led by the socialist left and a presidential candidate like AOC to resist the coup.

“Movement Parties” and Democratic Socialists of America

David Duhalde Jacobin
The rapid growth of DSA in recent decades is part of a global phenomenon of voters and activists from the Left and Right who distrust the political establishment and traditional parties, and have formed what are called “movement parties.”

DSA’s “Rank-and-File Strategy” Has 60s Roots at UC Berkeley

Steve Early California Red
This readable volume has much solid advice for socialists trying to revitalize existing unions or create alternatives to them today.  One key lesson is that building a big labor or political tent is better, for the left, than becoming a small one.

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Sewer Socialism Comes to the Pennsylvania Suburbs

Interview with David McMahon by Patrick Wargo Jacobin
Norristown, Pennsylvania, is a majority-renter town with deep industrial roots. New councilmember David McMahon explains why the suburbs aren’t a monolith — and why suburbs like his are fertile ground for socialist organizing.

It’s Dangerous To Overestimate the Left’s Strength

Eric Blanc and Bhaskar Sunkara Labor Politics
Be excited about Zohran, but sober about our movement's shallow roots. The big question now is whether we will be able to lean on that hope to rebuild a powerful working-class movement in workplaces and neighborhoods across our city and nation.

How Did Astoria Become So Socialist?

Naaman Zhou The New Yorker
One neighborhood in New York has elected so many democratic socialists—including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani—that people have started calling it “the People’s Republic,” or a part of the Commie Corridor.

Zohran Needs To Create Popular Assemblies

Gabriel Hetland and Bhaskar Sunkara Jacobin
If Zohran Mamdani is serious about delivering on his promises, he needs more than policies — he needs institutions that empower working people. Popular assemblies offer a way to build a new, bottom-up political culture in New York City.

Tidbits-Dec. 11- Reader Comments: Trump’s Deportations; Starbucks Strike; Rural America Myths; Trump’s MRI Results; New Resource – Zohran and Municipal Socialism; Amazon Labor Union; Online Forum-Building Working Class Solidarity With Ukraine; More..

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Reader Comments: Trump's Deportations; Starbucks Strike; Rural America Myths; Trump's MRI results; New resource - Zohran and municipal socialism; Amazon Labor Union; Online Forum-Building Working Class Solidarity with Ukraine; Lots more....

Partyism Without the Party

Chris Maisano Dissent Magazine
Zohran Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties. When was the last time being on the left was fun? It was a year-long act of collective joy. We actually won.
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