How to Build a Revolutionary Party: Propaganda and Intervention Yes! Workerism and Implantation No! This article argues that building a revolutionary worker’s party requires organizing the developing vanguard of the working class, not substituting for the vanguard by sending Marxists into industrial jobs. Why Marx looked to the working class …

IS THERE A LABOR Aristocracy in the U.S.? Please look at the Firebrand Communists website ( Firebrand.red) for regular articles on Marxist organizing ! This article is a response to Left Voice on the theory of the labor aristocracy: Proponents of the labor-aristocracy thesis argue that there is a layer of highly paid workers in the US who are bribed by the super-profits of imperialism. This logical fallacy conflates better-off workers with the very real problem of the labor bureaucracy, distorts the exploitation of the entire working class, and leads to fundamental errors in organization.

We the Elites — -Why the U.S. Constitution Serves the Few — -Robert Ovetz, Pluto Press 2022 Can We Use the Constitution to Change Society? Is the U.S. a Democracy? This is a very comprehensive and thorough analysis of the U.S. Constitution in history and theory. The basic thesis is…

The New Age of Catastrophe, Alex Callinicos, Polity 2023 Callinicos has written an excellent overview of the crises facing capitalism and humanity. He discusses climate, war, oppression and economics/poverty. His main thesis is that the New Age of Catastrophe succeeds the previous age of catastrophe from 1914 -45 which included…

Should We Celebrate July 4th? *(a settler colony is one in which foreign settlers displace a significant portion of the native population. It differs from more typical colonization where the invaders dominate as a thin layer at the top without expelling and displacing a large section of the native population.) This article argues that there is a great political and strategic difference between typical modern capitalism and Settler Colonialism. It also argues that the working class can be the revolutionary agent even in societies like the U.S. that were founded as settler colonies. Giving up on white workers as “settlers” is giving up on the potential of revolution. Abstract moralism is not an adequate guide to politics.

Catalyst’s Reformism reinforces its Class Reductionism and Vice Versa! Support specific demands against racism! — This review of Catalyst 7–1 argues that Catalyst continues its advocacy of class reductionism and reformism. Despite useful information and even some good analysis, its theory of social change is flawed. The first article in this issue is: The New Levers of State Power “The weakness of this article is…

Hal Draper, 2011 Center for Socialist History, 2023 Haymarket Books “Neither Washington nor Moscow !” This is a collection of essays by Hal Draper, prolific Marxist author and activist during the 20th century. Draper is the author of the magisterial multi-volume “Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution”( Monthly Review) , “ The Two Souls of Socialism”…

Trump Indicted for Espionage! Should the Left support “National Security”? The response to Trump’s indictment was to be expected. Liberals, Democrats, and most of the national media say Trump deserves it. “ National Security is sacrosanct. No one is above the law. Trump needs to be held accountable.” On the…

Academic Worker Militancy — The UW Post Doc Strike University of Washington employees in the Seattle area are on a roll! After 15 months of bargaining Librarians, UW Press and other Professional Staff won a contract with Service Employees International Union. It took a one-day warning strike and the threat…