Empty the Prisons
The pandemic has exposed the depth of racism embedded in US society. The Left should center the struggle against mass incarceration as a strategic priority in our efforts to #FreeThemAll.
The pandemic has exposed the depth of racism embedded in US society. The Left should center the struggle against mass incarceration as a strategic priority in our efforts to #FreeThemAll.
A lifelong socialist reflects on the new world we are entering, and the challenges and opportunities we can expect ahead.
An Iraqi revolutionary talks about the current uprising in Iraq, its political history, and the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Billionaires live on a different planet than most working people. They should not just be taxed, but abolished.
Survivors of sexual violence face a nauseating new twist on lesser evilism.
Chicago police torture survivor Mark Clements talks to Rampant about the inhumane conditions he witnessed inside Cook County Jail when he was unjustly targeted and sent there last week.
Centrist corporate politics has demonstrated a strange ability to outlast multiple crises and now the insurgent campaign of Bernie Sanders. The key to their power is the Obama mythos, which will have to be taken on if they are ever to fall.
As Black Chicagoans suffer the worst of the COVID-19 crisis, nurses at Provident Hospital fight to keep their emergency room open.
Dorothy Holmes recounts her fight just to learn the basic facts of her son’s murder and how she has fueled her long struggle toward justice with generosity.
Chicago's 33rd Ward Alderwomen speaks on navigating local governance as a socialist, decolonization of Puerto Rico, and building alternatives to the police.
States are the rules of the game in capitalist society. If we want to build socialism we’re going to have to break the rules.
A Chicago-area letter carrier discusses the situation on the ground in the midst of the pandemic. In spite of widespread failures on the part of management, postal workers are organizing to win safer conditions for themselves and the public they serve.
Cops are not part of the working class and perform no socially beneficial function. Only good things can result from abolishing the police.
Chicago’s Mayor Is Flunking the Most Elementary Question of the Coronavirus Crisis
A Chicago abortion provider reports on the right using the COVID-19 crisis to further attack abortion access. But the pandemic is also exposing the possibilities for safe, accessible reproductive health care – if we fight for it.
Teachers have led the way in the struggle for economic and racial justice in Chicago. The current crisis demands that we prepare for the worst while taking crucial steps to fight for a just future.
Ashley Bohrer’s Marxism and Intersectionality is indispensable reading for socialists trying to understand how class, race and gender mesh.
The “free market” offers no solutions to the problems we face. To overcome the present crisis, we have to take the reins into our own hands and democratically plan a future for all.
Immigrant kids don’t need gentler jails. They need us to end detention as a response to migration.
COVID-19 inaugurates a new era. The future will be shuttered by repression or it will be built upon solidarity.
An Indiana health care worker explains why Pence’s bigotry makes him uniquely unqualified to manage a nationwide public health threat.
Wet’suwet’en land is under constant invasion by the colonial Canadian government. The struggle for Indigenous sovereignty is currently reaching a height unseen in years.
Alderman George Cardenas introduced a resolution declaring a climate emergency in Chicago. He helped create the emergency in his own ward.
Slavery was torture. Reparations for police torture in Chicago are a key part of building the larger reparations movement.