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If established party leaders don’t screw things up—by echoing Republican talking points about a “dangerous” left, or by opting for caution when the electorate is calling for action—this revitalization has the potential to build a vibrant coalition..

Jackson understood the links between class/race and US foreign policy, in a way that few labor leaders do, recognizing that making these connections was essential to building a powerful workers movement in the US and beyond.

“The Young Lords Organization turned political because we found out that just giving gifts wasn’t going to help our people; we had to deal with the system that was messing them over."

Party leaders pay tribute to civil rights icon, but they don’t always practice what he preached. Jackson ran insurgent campaigns in 1984 and 1988, and the only thing that has come close since are the presidential runs of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Veterans of his remarkable insurgent 1988 campaign gather to pay tribute.

While his views may not fit squarely in a democratic socialist framework, Dinkins’s praise of a “gorgeous mosaic” of different races, ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, living and working together does.

Two American heroes died Friday. The most well known was Rep. John Lewis, 80. The other was the Rev. Cordell Tindell “C.T.” Vivian, at 95. The lesser known part of his work — his years in Chicago — that changed the fate of the city and the nation.

Socialism is no longer marginal due to Bernie's campaigns. But his support has been insufficient to win. Key now will be to back the eventual Democratic nominee but still oppose neo-liberalism in its Republican and Democratic guise.

Setting aside the traditional `two-party system' frame, which obscures far more than it reveals, and making use of a `six-party' model instead. The new hypothesis, I suggested, had far more explanatory power regarding the events unfolding before us.