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Contesting the Right-Wing Power Grab
Election integrity is continually eroding as Republicans lock in systematic disenfranchisement, unimpeded by corrupt and ineffectual corporate Democrats. Only labor mobilization, writes C.M. Lewis, can rise to the scale of the threat.
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Gilded Rust: The Making of Buffalo’s Socialist Upset
C.M. Lewis examines the context and significance of India Walton’s historic win in the Buffalo mayoral primary. Years of neoliberal “revitalization” and naked cash grabs have set the stage for a spectacular socialist reprisal.
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Connolly and the Serpent: What the Left Misses on Modern Unions
C.M. Lewis of Strikewave draws on Rosa Luxemburg and Irish socialist James Connolly to revisit the debate around sectoral bargaining, pointing to weak spots in the modern left’s understandings that are inimical to building working-class power.
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Why We Strike
C.M. Lewis of Strikewave defines the strike and assesses its role in the modern-day labor field. How can we conceive of the strike more expansively to win lasting working-class power?
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The Encircling Countryside: Breaking the Rural-Urban Divide
by C.M. Lewis. Even aside from the downballot electoral failures of the Democratic Party, the election revealed an unsettling truth: 70 million Americans voted for Donald Trump, having lived through four years of his vicious, proto-fascist sideshow, and many of them are increasingly concentrated in rural counties.
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Troubling Solidarity
by C.M. Lewis. Solidarity has a new life. Few speeches at a union convention go without some mention of solidarity; it is part of the lingua franca of the labor movement. But now that the rise of the Occupy movement and the candidacy of Bernie Sanders, among other forces, have popularized left-wing rhetoric for a…
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