Issue 4
Issue 4: Editorial Statement
And despite your mental, spiritual, and physical debt to the relentless goings-on of a world succumb to capitalism—you are here reading this. Maybe you are a dutiful DSA organizer spending your weeknights after work on Zoom calls or canvassing your neighborhood, maybe you are a member of another organization or group fighting for change in your community,…
Spring 2022
No War but the Class War
DSA International Committee leader historicizes the current discussion on the crisis in Ukraine and reaffirms the need for a strong socialist, anti-war position.
Liberal Ideology and the Carceral State
If people have “equal rights,” why are some rich and some poor, and some free while others are incarcerated? Let’s explore liberalism’s underlying logic and dependence on the carceral state.
Introducing Partisan Magazine’s Tenant Unionist Column
Issue 1 of a new Partisan column documenting on-the-ground autonomous tenant struggles.
Shopfloor Ecosocialism: Pumping the Brakes on Fossil Fuels
How organized labor can shift us away from dominant car culture and turn the tides of climate crisis at the point of production.
Socialism and Rural Organizing
On the conditions, obstacles, and opportunities for socialist organizing in the rural areas of the US.
Graduate Student Organizing at Columbia and Beyond
A real-time analysis of the organizing efforts taken on by graduate student workers at Columbia University, up through the fall strike and subsequent tentative agreement.
Hinterland and Suburb: Two Problems, One Solution
An analysis of the contemporary geographies of contradiction and struggle in the US.
On Dune
A historical materialist analysis of Frank Herbert's classic science fiction and its recent cinematic adaptation.
Electoral Politics and the Path to Socialism
An examination of past electoral success to carve out a vision of socialist electoral strategy with the goals of not only winning elections but building a base through “field-first” tactics outside of the established political consultancy class.