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Sudan’s Invisible Struggle: In Defining the Country’s New Era, Material Needs will be Front and Center

The uprising which ousted Bashir was instigated by an IMF-enforced austerity budget which threatened access to basic necessities. If the future democratic government fails to reject the Washington consensus, they will prove themselves no more trustworthy than Bashir’s authoritarian government.

International Politics

In Syria, New Hope and Familiar Threats

Recent events in Northern Syria seem, strangely, at once momentous and banal.

Roman Broszkowski

The New Polish Right: An Unholy Marriage Between Christian Nationalism and Welfare Politics

By examining countries further along the path Trump appears to be pursuing, American socialists can learn valuable lessons about how best to direct their energies for the immediate future and fight back against the authoritarian right.

Joaquim Stevenson-Rodriguez

Fuel Shortages Ignite Furor in Haiti

The situation in Haiti is perhaps an extreme example, but it should serve as a warning and an inspiration: when greed, corruption, and imperialism are left unchecked, the continued function of society as a whole becomes untenable, and the people begin to move toward revolution.

International Politics

Bolivia on the Brink: U.S. Sides with Christian Fascists against Indigenous Sovereignty

Multinational capital has seized the opportunity presented by a highly contested election and used their influence in the military to remove a popularly elected president, and install an unelected reactionary and anti-indigenous interim president.

Letters from the Editor

Letter from the Editor 1: Why Socialism?

Look around you. Are things working?

Domestic Politics

Not Just a Walk in the Woods: Students for Energy Justice Sound Alarm on NEXUS Pipeline

The odds that Oberlin, a small town making up only a few miles of NEXUS’s 256 mile route, will be subject to a pipeline spill are not likely; yet the odds that NEXUS will spill, or leak, or blast open, at some point in its lifetime, are almost certain.

Domestic Politics

Can We Trust Elizabeth Warren’s Progressive Rhetoric?

Elizabeth Warren’s campaign relies on progressive rhetoric to garner grassroots support, but has already shown signs that she is unwilling to challenge the system which led to a for-profit healthcare system; trillions of dollars of student debt; and historic wealth inequality.

Logan Manning

After the Climate Strike, Communities Must Imagine Responses Beyond Electoral Politics

We must extend our political imagination beyond the realm of liberal democracy, towards actions which directly confront capital and business as the largest and most powerful organized interest in this country and the world.

Domestic Politics

Who Suicided Jeffrey Epstein? A Test Case for a New Woke Trutherism

Jeffrey Epstein’s murder was a moment when the fact of the moral rot of the ruling class was, for a fleeting moment, nakedly obvious. It should catalyze a new “woke” trutherism on the American political scene — a trutherism with a firm, class conscious basis.

Domestic Politics

Dirty Tactics from a Dirty Industry: Lessons Learned from the Fight over HB 6

Referendum campaigns and direct actions are both deeply important projects, and both demand our support. But they also expose a major weakness of the climate movement: we are always playing defense.

Domestic Politics

OCOPE Defends Protections for Workers from “One Oberlin” Austerity

While Oberlin’s administration is prepared to sacrifice workers on the altar of “academic excellence,” employees and students, the real engine of this College, must unify in the face of austerity.

Domestic Politics

“What Are You Going to Do About It?” Oberlin Students Witness the Ruins of Extractive Capitalism at RAMPS Fall Summit

“I ache for these people,” she said, “and I ache for this land. But we are educated, we’re motivated, we’re organized, we give a shit, and we’re not backing down! Because somebody taught us what you can do when you don’t back down.”

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