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April 2017
In this issue
Ticks, mosquitoes & vector-borne disease: a new focus for Eco-Justice organizing?
Andy Feeney
The galloping threat of vector-borne diseases that comes with warmer weather farther north in the US may offer organizing opportunities for ecosocialists.
Groundbreaking "We Were There" honors women in radical history
Kurt Stand
Profiles in radical resistance of the multi-ethnic working-class.
UBI gains interest as "the end of work" approaches
Lucy Duff
Interest in a universal basic income (UBI) appears to be rising alongside a widespread sense that we are nearing the end of work. Two examples show what this sort of plan might look like.
Issue-based working groups could have negative effect
Glen Pine
Our group's expansion creates amazing opportunities for gaining ground in the battle against capitalism. We should take care to consider how our structure shapes how we approach the class struggle.
Local officials unite against NFL stadium extortion ploy
Bill Mosley
The fate of RFK Stadium and the land on which it sits were put in play earlier this year when DC and Maryland political leaders, wary of a giveaway, went on the offensive.
Historian warns of stealthy ways that tyranny can arrive
Bill Mosley
There is a wall of resistance to Trump and his agenda that will be difficult to break. Tim Snyder's review helps us build out a resistance strategy built for the long-term.
Complexity of "Intersectionality" is explored at March Socialist Salon
Gareth Sparks
Intersectionality is a negation of the premise that one single facet of oppression -- economic class -- is enough to explain and address the harms of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and the other faces of oppression.
MD Assembly's jockeying with Hogan for advantages in 2018 election
Woody Woodruff
In this year before the 2018 gubernatorial election -- when Maryland Democrats will pull out all the stops to oust Republican Governor Larry Hogan -- legislation and progressive activism are showing many convergences.
Origins of social anger at bureaucratic government
Woody Woodruff
The Federal Communications Commission in Trumpland is allowing big telcom companies to sell more of your personal data.
Our socialist rationalism includes a hint of faith
Eric Sommers
The structure of socialist political organizations - well, ours at least - bears some resemblance of the structures of religious institutions.
MDC DSA labor activist receives MWC top award
Editorial Crew
A lifelong Washingtonian receives commendation for a career of helping his community and union.
After "the end of work," two perspectives on the future
Cecilio Morales
As the nature of work becomes fundamentally upended by creative (and labor-abusing) technological-capital formations, novel perspectives are needed to combat these new modes of capitalist extraction.
Trump behaves (surprise!) like a capitalist. So did Obama
Austin Kendall
Trump's taking of the White House offered the possibility of shattering liberals' illusions of the neutrality of the state
Smucker's "Hegemony How-To" plots a different path for change
Lynne Williamson
The radical alliance must write its own political narrative that gives a better unifying basis than those written on the capitalist fiction of human nature as solely individualistic.