Lessons from the Greek tragedy Many volumes will be written over the coming years about the rise and fall of SYRIZA, but the immediate lessons are simple.
Police provocateurs, real and imaginary Radicals need to know the difference between actual efforts at police infiltration and made up stories about police disrupting "peaceful"…
Bureaucracy and revolution - Scott Jay Leninist organizations invariably become bureaucracies focused more on their own self-reproduction than the needs of the class struggle.
Sects and sectarianism - Scott Jay Religious and revolutionary sects have much more in common with each other than they would generally prefer to admit. Their ideas may be…
Who gives the orders? Oakland police, City Hall and Occupy The recent declaration of "war" by the NYPD police union shows how the police are a political…
The sociology of Leninist organizations The behavior of Leninist groups is shaped less by the rules than by the social environment of their organizations.
The killing of Eric Garner and the failure of social justice unionism Rather than providing a strategy for fighting racism, social justice unionism has led some union…
What is a Marxist organization? - Scott Jay Self-proclaimed Marxist organization never apply a Marxist analysis to their own organizations. While the rest of the world is shaped by social…
November 2014: From election to rebellion November 2014 began with the Chicago Teachers Union selling their members out to the Democrats and ended with a nationwide rebellion against the…