New Future

Sam Farber argues that the Left needs to reclaim the idea of progress, and that this means rejecting the ideas of the German-Jewish Marxist Walter Benjamin. But Benjamin has something urgent to say to us today that Farber overlooks: real progress comes only through organizing ourselves for revolutionary struggle — and abandoning the false hope of reformism.

Ras Baraka is running as the most left-wing candidate in NJ’s primary for governor, even getting arrested for protesting an ICE detention center. But anti-racist activists and workers in New Jersey won’t have our demands met by chaining our struggles to the Democratic Party.

The felony charges from last year's University of Michigan encampment have been dropped. We should mark this as a victory for the movement.

Robert Prevost chose his name inspired by Leo XIII, the founder of the Social Doctrine of the Church, which was as critical of social inequality as it was hostile to socialist and revolutionary ideas.

Faculty at Brooklyn College in New York City linked arms to protect a student protest denouncing the genocide in Palestine. University administrators sent campus security and the NYPD to repress the action and brutally arrest students.

Columbia University’s president called in the NYPD and campus security to break up a student protest against Israel’s latest offensive in Gaza. As the police beat and arrested protesters, students across campus rallied outside to denounce the repression.

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is leading another generation of anti-capitalist youth back into the Democratic Party.

Israel's security cabinet has approved the expansion of military operations in Gaza, including the occupation of the Palestinian territory. The army will call up tens of thousands of reservists to expand the ongoing genocide.

Thousands of workers, students, and retirees packed a stadium in Buenos Aires on May Day to participate in a rally organized by the Party of Socialist Workers. They discussed how to unite their fights against far-right president Javier Milei and his brutal attacks on living and working conditions.

The temporary disqualification of a current Detroit councilmember in the city’s upcoming elections is an undemocratic move that speaks to the flaws of the electoral process under capitalism.

From Paris to Buenos Aires, Berlin, Manila, Chicago, and New York, workers across the world turned out to organize and demonstrate against the growing global threat posed by Trump and the Far Right.

The United States has already killed hundreds of civilians in its imperialist bombing of Yemen. Now, the Trump administration is indicating that it may back a ground invasion, threatening to throw the country into a civil war.

Leftists who claim the mantle of internationalism must speak out against the reactionary nationalism that the Russian and Ukrainian regimes are using to crack down on dissent

Unions, immigrant rights groups, climate activists, and left organizations rallied across the United States, showing the widespread anger at Trump’s reactionary agenda. To defeat the Far Right workers and students need to organize from below — not rely on the Democratic Party that sabotages labor and capitulates to the right.