Millions of people are looking for the hope that a strong political movement provides, but the window is shrinking
Shamus Cooke
The shock of Trump’s victory has pushed millions of people into political action for the first time. The revolutionary potential of this is immense, and can be easily underestimated
There have been nationwide coordinated protests of high school and college students leaving class for the streets; on the 17th, 80 colleges participated in a walkout, using the anti-Trump hashtag #sanctuary campus as their slogan. Mayors across the country have urged calm but more protests are planned.
The best protection for the working family is a powerful, organized movement of working people who are dedicated to defending one another
The Left can achieve miracles in this moment if it strategically grows and broadens the infant social movement
When an organization adopts lifeless politics, the prognosis is death. The organized left must meet the challenge head on; it’s now a matter of life and death
Historically unions have only won at the Supreme Court when expressing their power
The U.S. ruling class as a whole revealed the depth of its crisis in this election: not since the Vietnam War have both wings of the establishment thoroughly discredited themselves
Unions must be transformed back into the mobilizing and fighting organizations that earned them the rights the Court is now attempting to take away
It’s obligatory for the left to challenge imperialism by any means necessary, waging campaigns and raising demands to stop foreign aggression