1+ week, 5+ day ago (720+ words) Zohran Mamdani's mayoral victory reflects a working-class desire for change, but his silence on universal health care shows the dead end of bourgeois politics. We must build independent working-class power through rank-and-file assemblies and action committees to win the healthcare system we need. Yet the fights our union leaderships pursue often focus on bread-and-butter issues, which are helpful but ultimately serve as a temporary fix that doesn't change the system's structure. When rank-and-file demands trend toward broader issues, the union bureaucracy often co-opts and stifles these movements, recommending that workers concentrate on "more realistic" demands. Why? As articulated by Antonio Gramsci, the mainstream union apparatus functions as part of the "integral state'an extension of the capitalist state's influence into civil society, designed to contain working-class militancy and maintain ruling-class hegemony. This means our task is not to abandon unions but…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago (359+ words) On Wednesday, Kings County Hospital doctors, nurses, PCAs/PCTs, transporters, and others rallied outside of the hospital to demand that the administration halt an unsafe plan to decommission one of the CT scanners that would put patients at risk. If you would like to support, sign the open letter to NYC Health + Hospitals CEO Mitchell Katz here." Nina is writer and editor for Left Voice. She lives in New York. On Monday, my coworkers and I at the Metropolitan Museum of Art filed for a union election. If we win, around 900 museum workers will be unionized with the UAW. But we don't just need a union: we need a fighting union that expresses the collective voice of its rank and file. On Thursday, Starbucks workers and supporters rallied to kick off an indefinite strike. Workers are demanding higher pay, better…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago (352+ words) The zine brings together writings and art'from CUNY students and workers on solidarity and repression at CUNY and beyond. Containing articles, creative writing and art about the history of political repression at CUNY, immigrant struggles under Trump, hopes and limits of the Zohran Mamdani moment, the general strike in Italy and more, the launch event united the CUNY community. CUNY students, workers and alumni launched the second issue of the YNUC Anti-Capitalist Zine. This issue focused on the CUNY Fired Four, solidarity and repression at CUNY and beyond. Hakeem Jeffries is the enemy of everything Mamdani claims to stand for. Instead of making peace with the Democratic Party, socialists should be leading the fight for working people to break from them once and for all. The recent vote in the House to "denounce the horrors of socialism" is not happening…...

3+ week, 12+ hour ago (744+ words) As a new McCarthyism sweeps universities across the country, several professors facing attacks on their academic freedom came together for a panel at Rutgers University on November 7. The panelists showed in their remarks how the various attacks on Palestine activism, criticism of the Far Right, and basic free speech are not relegated to one [] Left Voice member Tatiana Cozzarelli spoke on the panel about the campaign to reinstate the four professors fired by the City University of New York (CUNY) for Palestine solidarity, and the broader repressive climate that students and faculty at the university are facing. She emphasized the larger potential of a strong fight against repression: We have to think about how these campaigns in defense of our right to speech, our right to defend Palestine, our right to speak out against the genocide, are connected to a…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago (698+ words) An interview with Doug Greene, an independent historian from the Boston area, about his new book on the Moscow Trials. The Moscow Trials, beginning in 1936, were based on astounding claims: prosecutor Andrey Vyshinsky accused many top Bolsheviks of conspiring with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan to destroy the Soviet Union " the very working-class government the accused had helped create. Some 700,000 people were executed during the Great Purges. Can you give us a brief overview? Then and now, these accusations strain credulity. But lots of communists suppressed their doubts, saying that there must have been lots of counterrevolutionary conspiracies, and Stalin was at most overreacting to real threats. What was the material basis for the Purges? Defenders of Stalin would say something like: you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs " and this kind of bloody violence was necessary…...

13+ hour, 24+ min ago (605+ words) Donald Trump is using the bogeyman of drug trafficking to potentially start a war with Venezuela. But the aggression is really about U.S. imperialism, and controlling Latin America. Over the weekend, the Trump administration ramped up threats of military intervention in Venezuela, announcing that it is closing airspace over the country. The moves are part of U.S. military buildup in the region, and come on the heels of deadly strikes on boats off the Venezuelan coast and demands for Nicol's Maduro to resign. Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth claim the aggression against Venezuela, which has killed over 80 people since September, is about self-defense and fighting "drug trafficking." Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt claimed that they, "have made it clear that presidentially designated narco-terrorist groups are subject to lethal targeting in accordance with the laws of war." Some in Congress are feeling…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago (401+ words) The recent vote in the House to "denounce the horrors of socialism" is not happening in a vacuum, but as millions in the country are seeing that capitalism has nothing to offer but misery. To deliver on these aspirations, we have to fight for a socialist, working-class party. Against the lies and fear mongering of the political establishment, we have to defend the banners of the socialist Left. Its legacy is not the caricature presented in Congress; it is the legacy of millions of workers and oppressed people who fought to end capitalist exploitation. Sou Mi is an activist based in New York City. DSA is the largest organization in the United States that openly defends socialism. It bears particular responsibility in the process of creating or hindering the formation of a new party. Zohran Mamdani's mayoral victory reflects a…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago (545+ words) The UN security council is moving forward with a "peace plan" that will further oppress Palestinians. It shows that the movement for Palestine must follow the example of Italian workers who went on strike for Gaza. Luigi Morris, Samuel Karlin and Sou Mi The vote paves the way for a new occupation of Gaza, or even for the resumption of Israel's genocide. It calls for the creation of an armed force that can fire on Palestinians, and whose mission would be to demilitarize the Gaza Strip and disarm Palestinian factions on behalf of Israel " a goal Israel has failed to achieve with its genocidal war. This jockeying of regional powers to take advantage of the opportunity for expansion, comes with its own set of tensions. Writing in Revolution Permanente, Left Voice's sister publication in France, Enzo Tresso explains: This vote…...

3+ week, 9+ hour ago (761+ words) Animations showing tunnels, bunkers, and command centers have been used by Israel, and amplified by bourgeois news outlets, to justify the genocide in Gaza. We spoke with one of the investigators who proved they were falsified. By analyzing 43 post-October 7 Israeli army animations, and speaking with IDF reservists, investigators at +972 Magazine, Local Call, Viewfinder, the Swiss network SRF, and the Scottish outlet The Ferret, proved that these hawkish images were deliberately falsified. An anonymous IDF reservist told the investigators that the models "look sexy, they look professional, and obviously the average person doesn't go down into the details. The models just make the military look more professional, like a high tech company with cool diagrams and cool technology." The work of +972 Magazine, Local Call, Viewfinder, the Swiss network SRF, and The Ferret, to do what the bourgeois media would not, and…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago (716+ words) On Sunday, Chileans will vote for a new president. The election comes at the end of a center-left administration that has left many disillusioned and paved the way for the advance of the Far Right. But class struggle and revolutionary ideas can change the country's course. On November 16, Chile will hold its general election and many are predicting that the country will be the next in the region to shift to the right. Polling suggests that Jara might come in first, leading to a runoff with Kast, but she has little chance of winning in a second round. A surprise victory by Kaiser is also possible. Right-wing candidates have focused their campaigns on fearmongering about migrants and blaming them for the country's problems. They also target the Indigenous Mapuche community, which has long struggled against the Chilean state over land…...