Rachel Himes is an organizer with NYC-DSA who coordinated the chapter's Bernie campaign, worked on its recent, successful campaigns for state senate and assembly, and is active in the chapter's Defund NYPD campaign. Himes is beginning a PhD program in Columbia's Department of Art History and Archeology. Himes assesses the state of the movement in the city, differences between this summer’s protests against the police and earlier ones, and the role socialists should play in this struggle.
This episode explores a perennial issue for socialist labor organizing, namely how to approach sexism, racism, and other violations of civil rights. When and...
Just how broken is capitalism in the U.S.? What is the right stance for socialists and progressives towards "reopening the economy?" Guest: Doug Henwood...
The last of three political biographies this week with Rose Bookbinder of the Pioneer Valley Workers' Center: food insecurity during the pandemic among the...