July 2017

On the 50th anniversary of an urban revolt in the heart of American capitalism at the time, SW interviewed the co-author of Detroit: I Do Mind Dying.

For the first time in decades, the left has a chance to become a force in the U.S. This weekend's Socialism conference is a place to discuss how.

Since Trump's election, the far right has become more aggressive than at any time in the last 25 years. An organized response is urgently needed.

The acquittal of the Minnesota cop who killed an unarmed motorist as his girlfriend filmed the aftermath caused shock waves of sadness and anger.

A British socialist describes the surge of anger and protest after the Grenfell Tower fire and its effect on the radicalization that followed the election.

Can the Democratic Party be reformed from within? Or is an alternative necessary? Those were two big questions underlying the People's Summit.

More than 100 people packed into a North Carolina church to welcome Juana Luz Tobar Ortega into sanctuary from ICE within the church's walls.

The shooting rampage targeting Republican members of Congress led to hypocritical denunciations of the left as the source of political violence.

The Labour Party leader won't become prime minister yet, but he led a radical campaign that achieved major gains and revived the left in Britain.

Organizers of a counterdemonstration that outnumbered and drowned out the far right talk about the strategy and tactics that went into organizing.

Keeping a tiny step forward would be better than Trump's big step backward, but our task remains building a stronger movement to save the planet.

The federal government is continuing its war on immigrant workers fighting for their rights in Vermont with two more detentions.

An LA activist was freed from detention, but still faces the threat of deportation by a vindictive and dishonest ICE bureaucracy.

Northwestern University students who spoke out when an ICE representative came to campus are facing disciplinary action.

Five years of organizing by farmworkers paid off when members of Familias Unidas por la Justicia ratified their first agreement.

The period of reaction that followed the July Days was relatively short-lived, with the movement reviving in a matter of a month.

Members of the New York nurses union and 1199SEIU walked off the job to protest the for-profit health care company Fresenius.