A few years before the fall of the tsar, in October 1915, Lenin still considered the immediate tasks of the coming Russian revolution to be bourgeois: “The most correct slogans are the ‘three pillars’ (a democratic republic, confiscation of the landed estates and an eight-hour working..…

UE’s militant and democratic approach to trade unionism was vindicated in December 2008 during the successful six-day occupation at the Republic Windows and Doors occupation in Chicago. ..…

The ISR uses the terms “socialism” or “revolutionary socialism” to distinguish the tradition of “socialism from below” from the most common forms of “socialism from above,” namely Stalinism and social democracy (though many in mainstream political discourse use the term..…