The Dilemmas of Democratic Socialism
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Fall 2024
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Structure and Solidarity
Lasting labor victories depend on coordinating diverse strategies and building the relationships to sustain them.
Culture War in the Classroom
It is time for educators to go on the offensive against the conservative campaign to ban “critical race theory” from schools.
The Teacher Strike: Conditions for Success
The teacher insurgency of the last decade is a welcome sign of the revival of the strike. But strikes are just one part of a broader strategy to build the power of labor.
The Limits of Class
Marxist critiques of identity politics place an inordinate weight on the working class as agent of change—and elide its often contradictory history.
A reply to Shuja Haider.
The Perils of Universalism
The authoritarian offensive has primarily taken the form of attacks on racialized others. We must fight back accordingly.
Anatomy of a Crisis
To effectively counter the threat of authoritarianism posed by today’s crisis of democracy, we need to understand the dynamics that produced it.
Introducing the special section of our Winter 2018 issue.
Education and the Commercial Mindset: Leo Casey Replies
In his response to my review, Abrams concedes my major criticism: that the book did not investigate the symbiotic link between the school privatization movement and efforts to eviscerate teacher unions.
The Warped Logic of School Privatization
Samuel Abrams’s Education and the Commercial Mindset provides the most detailed analysis of school privatization to date, yet overlooks the critical role that anti–union animus plays in fueling it.
When Privatization Means Segregation: Setting the Record Straight on School Vouchers
Trump’s Department of Education is proposing to take school vouchers nationwide. But this policy has an ugly segregationist history that “school choice” advocates can’t escape.
The Souls of Black Teachers: Reading José Luis Vilson with W. E. B. Du Bois
The schools of New York are now more segregated than at any point in the state’s history, and are the most segregated schools in the nation. New York City math teacher José Luis Vilson’s This Is Not A Test is a powerful account of how today’s resegregation holds back students of color—and how black and Latino teachers can fight back.
“A Single Garment of Destiny” for American and Bangladeshi Workers
“Injustice anywhere,” Martin Luther King famously wrote in his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” “is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” Two events last week …
Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand: Why Teachers Like Me Support Teacher Unions
Leo Casey: Why Teachers Like Me Support Teacher Unions
Speaking Untruth on Behalf of Corporate Power: Academics in the Service of Union-Busting
Leo Casey: Speaking Untruth on Behalf of Corporate Power
Still the “Ashes of the Old”: Human and Labor Rights in Castro’s Cuba 
In recent months, a number of official announcements from inside Cuba have led to speculation that meaningful political change could be underway. From a declaration that it will release a number of political prisoners to an apology for past repression …
