The Left will not let us forget the stain of slavery, but what has it learned from it? ... In light of what New York has done, and what other states are proposing, it is time for the Senate and House to take up the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act that would ensure that..…
“Trotskyism has been written out of the history of the American left,” notes veteran revolutionary socialist Joel Geier. There are notable exceptions, such as Alan Wald’s The New York Intellectuals or Bryan Palmer’s James P. ..…
He is today the most well-known political personality on the anticapitalist left in France. This is a speech he delivered in New York City on November 19, 2011 at a forum sponsored by The People’s University at the New School. . ..…
For a more thorough elaboration and defense of the idea of democratic socialist planning than space allows here, see David McNally, Against the Market (London and New York: Verso, 1993); and Ernest Mandel, “In defense of socialist planning,” New Left Review 159,..…