Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.

'Dillingham — the author of Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico, who often shares his analysis on X at @asdillingham — explains how Thanksgiving functions to whitewash the history of settler colonialism.' truthout.org/articles/the...

'How Irish, Jewish and Italian New York Immigrants Benefitted from Whiteness Post WW2 Mark Naison: You can also see this a triumph of assimilation as the overwhelming majority of occupants of this housing were Irish Jewish and italian.' www.laprogressive.com/immigration-...

'Fear, panic, hiding for days—this is the experience of families under assault by the Trump Administration' inthesetimes.com/article/undo...

"But every major tendency in DSA believes in contesting elections. So what are the actual disagreements?" Jane Slaughter & Connor Wright weigh in on "Can We Meet the Moment? A round table discussion on DSA."

Americans remain “frustrated” about rising prices and have a dimming view of their personal finances, a survey found.

Child care workers, a substantial portion of whom are immigrants, are setting up a network of resistance & detailed protection plans with the families in their care in case parents or the workers themselves are detained by ICE, leaving the children behind, reports @19thnews.org.

Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. Are they innate in the mind? No. They come from social practice, and from it alone; they come from three kinds of social practice, the struggle for production, the class struggle and scientific experiment. - Mao

Mamdani transition co-chair Lina Khan and incoming first deputy mayor Dean Fuleihan joined Starbucks Workers United baristas on the picket line in NYC’s Financial District today.

Contrary to this post below, Berger & the sewer socialists fought hard vs racism, the KKK, & lynching once significant numbers of Black workers arrived in Milwaukee after WWI—& Black workers reciprocated by supporting the Socialists🧵 Antiracism was plank #1 in Berger's 1922 congressional campaign!

'Each campaign demonstrates the beginnings of a path to the future. I say the beginning, because ultimately the level of political change that will be needed will require a vastly stronger and more widespread social movement than is present today.' www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/20/h...

'Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for an additional 2% tax on incomes over $1 million has provoked gloomy prophecies of elite exodus. Yet a similar policy Massachusetts passed three years ago has not caused the rich to flee and has generated significant revenue.' jacobin.com/2025/11/mill...

Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, was handed a 27‑year prison sentence for orchestrating a January 6-style coup attempt. Bye, piggy.

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

BREAKING: 30 more Starbucks locations are joining the strike. Starbucks workers in 25 cities are jumping into the week-long strike. Now @sbworkersunited.org members at 95 stores in 65 cities have walked off the job.

fresh audio product: • Paul Heideman @pmheideman.bsky.social, author of Rogue Elephant, on how the Republican party went from a staid vehicle of American business to the frothy lunacy of today www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

'Globally today, 700 million people live in extreme poverty, while 3.5 billion more struggle to survive below the poverty line. In contrast, just 3 thousand capitalists now control a total wealth of 16 trillion dollars.' cpusa.org/article/the-...

ou need to understand that real politics is based on materialism, which means that you figure out your program based on people’s material interests — not on a vibe, not on values. You’re fighting for people’s material interests and their material needs... - Vivek Chibber

“Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children…” – Amilcar Cabral, Revolution in Guinea, written 1965.

You have to come back to the universalism of the classical left. - Vivek Chibber

'There has never been a sustained success on the Left except through partnership with the unions. You can see why. It’s not just that the unions give you power against capital. I’m saying that like it’s a small thing. It is the thing.' jacobin.com/2025/11/neol...

“The state is a product and a manifestation of the irreconcilability of class antagonisms.” ― Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

“Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich: this is the democratism of capitalist society.” ― Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

“We do not at all disagree with the anarchists on the question of the abolition of the state as an aim.” ― Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

The Communists of Chile have done it again! The party of Luis Corlavon, Gladys Marin and Pablo Neruda has risen to new heights after secure the highest vote on Sunday in the country's presidential election. Best wishes and solidarity to one of the hero parties of our movement. We stand with you!!

I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

The U.S. military build-up in Latin America and the Caribbean is expanding faster than some may realize. U.S. soldiers and Marines have begun training in the jungles of Panama for the first time in decades.

New York City Council member @chiosse.bsky.social: “After years of fighting austerity, real estate, and machine politics from inside city hall, I joined the Democratic Socialists of America because only a mass movement can make those fights winnable.”

Wisconsin's sewer socialists provide a great template for Zohran & democratic socialism today—here are the top 10 things they achieved by running Milwaukee for almost 50 years🧵 Milwaukee built America's 1st public housing coop & pioneered city planning via comprehensive zoning

This is the strength of our city. We’ll honor the trust these families put in us by making this a place where they can thrive.

jacobin.com/2025/11/neol... By the early 2000s, what you have found is that in the intervening years, between the 1980s and the early 2000s, you had now had the longest period we have seen since the 1880s of a complete absence of class struggle in the advanced world.

'The President and his ruling party are attempting to direct a crackdown on opposition to their program under the banner of uprooting “The Left.” ...in the service of increasing the share of societal wealth held by a tiny elite.' mronline.org/2025/11/10/t...

Last Tuesday’s elections offered a real-world test of how to defeat an increasingly authoritarian right in a volatile political moment. liberationroad.substack.com

New Mexico is the first state in the country to implement universal free childcare, and the program will save families an estimated $12,800 a year.

Soon, we'll oversee a budget of more than $100 billion — and every dollar will reflect our commitment to working New Yorkers and delivering universal childcare. Good thing some little New Yorkers gave me a counting lesson today!

New York City can achieve a universal, accessible childcare system that adequately pays its workforce, meets the needs of working families, and prioritizes preschoolers with disabilities.

'Modern conflict rarely involves a straightforward trajectory. The conflict in Sudan is a neo-colonial takeover, with United States ally the UAE using a proxy force to exploit that nation for its resources and strategic position.' blackagendareport.com/index.php/su...

The Left’s candidate in Chile’s presidential election is Jeannette Jara, a Communist who was until recently the country’s labor minister. She’s running on her record of boosting the minimum wage and shortening Chileans’ working hours.

'Class societies didn’t begin with capitalism: the ancient and medieval worlds had their own systems of exploitation. Marxist historians have set out to explain how those systems worked — and what their eventual demise tells us about what might lie ahead.' jacobin.com/2022/04/marx...

What lessons should we take from last Tuesday? In the New Liberator, Bennett Carpenter shares 7 lessons from the election - and one thought for the work ahead.

"If we want Mamdani—and others like him—to stay bold, stay grounded, and stay left, the question is not how to hold one person’s feet to the fire. The question is how to build the mass, durable, militant social force needed to actualize our shared agenda. That work is ours, not just his."

'It’s not just Zohran Mamdani — socialist candidates won municipal elections across the US last week. Like the New York mayor-elect, many of them focused their campaigns on affordability and relied on impressive grassroots volunteer operations.' jacobin.com/2025/11/muni...

'New York can hold up pretty well to any city in Scandinavia. While cities such as St Louis and Chicago have long taken down their public housing, New York has barely touched any of it.' www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/10/b...

'The environmental and climate struggle is no different from any other Communist Party campaign–indeed it is a vital part of the all-encompassing fight with capitalism.' mronline.org/2025/11/10/w...

'“Can We Meet the Moment?” The question posed by Tom Goodkind in his analysis of the 2025 DSA Convention spurred debate and discussion on the left. Here, Ben Davis responds.' liberationroad.substack.com?utm_source=g...

"I posit that DSA exists essentially as two parallel organizations. In many large chapters, DSA is a party, or party surrogate. In many smaller chapters, DSA is what the German New Left referred to as the Extra-Parliamentary Opposition: a street protest movement, or a student anti-war movement."

'According to the U.S. Census Bureau, around 35% of the counties in Appalachia are considered economically distressed, with significant portions of their populations living below the poverty line.' appalachianmemories.org/2024/10/26/u...