Dissent Magazine

Stop Eco-Apartheid: The Left’s Challenge in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

Daniel Aldana Cohen ▪ November 14, 2018

The horrors threatened by Brazil’s new president are compounded by a potential war on the Amazon. It is up to the left to build a coalition capable of overcoming it.

Seizing the Initiative

Lester Spence ▪ November 14, 2018

Ballot initiatives led to progressive victories in unlikely places. The left should use them more often.

Hate Was Not a Winning Ticket

Michelle Chen ▪ November 13, 2018

Contrary to Trumpian fantasy, noncitizens didn’t get a direct say in the midterms. But their voices still mattered on Election Day.

Time for Another Reinvention

Fred Block ▪ November 9, 2018

Socialist parties emerged as dynamic, powerful forces at the turn of the twentieth century. After decades of decline, can they revive themselves in the twenty-first?

There Is Power in This Union

Michael Kazin ▪ November 8, 2018

The Democrats’ midterm triumphs in Nevada would not have been possible without Culinary Workers Union Local 226.

The Democrats’ Existential Battle: Achieving Real Democracy

Jedediah Purdy ▪ November 7, 2018

To preserve their minority rule, Republicans will keep putting up barriers to voting. The only solution is to deepen democracy.

A New Climate Politics Is on the Ballot

Julian Brave Noisecat ▪ November 4, 2018

From Florida to Washington, a new generation of progressive candidates and social movements are closing the democratic deficit on climate change.

Zoning for the 1%

Adele Oltman ▪ November 3, 2018

The rezoning of northern Manhattan has exposed the failings of New York City’s top-down housing program, which puts the profits of landlords and developers over the rights of tenants.

The New Demand for an Old Idea: Guaranteed Jobs Now

David Stein and Ady Barkan ▪ November 2, 2018

The demand for genuine full employment broadens our imagination of what a federal government committed to caring for its people would look like.

Belabored Podcast #163: Organizing for Democracy, with Meg Reilly

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ November 2, 2018

Meg Reilly of the Campaign Workers Guild joins us to talk about the first movement to unionize the workers who canvass the streets, run the phone banks, and carry the clipboards.

China’s Surveillance Laboratory

Darren Byler and Timothy Grose ▪ October 31, 2018

Reeducation camps, mosque monitoring, an extensive network of security checkpoints—these are just a few features of the surveillance apparatus China is developing to police Uyghur Muslims. A report from Xinjiang.

Make China Marxist Again

Timothy Cheek and David Ownby ▪ Fall 2018

Under Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party has reembraced Marx. But Xi’s state Marxism is a top-down attempt to unify the population behind a nationalist ideology, not to inspire class struggle.