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by Geoffrey Jobson

The cover of Pink Floyd’s album Dark Side of the Moon is a perfect visual metaphor for the South African transition from apartheid. The image, a single beam of white light being refracted through a prism, becoming a rainbow, perfectly captures the way the transition to democracy in 1994 became a prism refracting whiteness into a multiplicity of coexisting colours. This trick of refraction temporarily enabled white South Africa to erase its complicity in the persistence of racialised poverty and deepening inequality in favour of an imagined unity that left the fundamental structural problems of South African society unchallenged.

As members of the yLSC delegation to the 2026 YDSA Convention, we are deeply disappointed to learn about the news concerning the NCC Co-Chair race. Any abuse of power by a Y/DSA staffer for personal political gain is unacceptable in a democratic socialist organization. Personal membership data is inherently extremely confidential and sensitive, and it […]

A slate of union-backed working-class Democratic candidates is running on an economic-populist platform in swing districts. If the Blue Collar Brigade proves successful, their strategy could set a precedent for winning working-class votes.

Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was detained and threatened with deportation by the Trump administration for protesting Israel’s genocide. He spoke to Jacobin about why he is now suing the administration.

Francisco Aguirre is a labor organizer and asylum seeker from El Salvador who has lived and worked in Portland, Oregon for nearly thirty years. His asylum case has been pending for years and complicated by the tortuous, drawn-out legal processes that millions of immigrants face. Francisco was ordered to appear on July 16th, 2026 at […]

The post Stand with Francisco Aguirre! For a United Working-Class Defense of Immigrants! first appeared on Class Struggle Action Network.

The Greentech revolution makes it possible to pivot rapidly away from fossil fuels. But realizing that possibility requires actually halting and reversing fossil fuel extraction and burning. President Trump is doing everything possible instead to expand such fossil folly – and to crush any efforts to restrain it. But the fight to reduce fossil fuels continues from below.

The post Phasing Out Fossil Folly first appeared on Labor Network for Sustainability.

The record-breaking Spider-Man: Brand New Day is gleeful, undemanding fun that doesn’t pretend to be anything more. In a superhero monoculture that keeps draining Hollywood of money, talent, and ambition, that’s about the best you can hope for.

The Cuban Revolution was not just a transformation of the county’s political-economic order. It was a revolution in culture as well, bringing literacy to the masses and inspiring diverse artistic and intellectual ferment.

Marijke Colle, Michael Löwy, and Manuel Garí Ramos on about wildfires and the global ecological crisis.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 31, 2026 Michigan Supreme Court upholds the public’s rights to the Great Lakes, orders new review of Line 5 tunnel.  Traverse City, Mich., July 31, 2026 — The Michigan Supreme Court ruled that Michigan regulators failed to properly weigh the Great Lakes’ public trust protections and environmental impacts before approving Enbridge... Read more »

The post Flow v. MPSC: MI Supreme Court issues Line 5 tunnel permit decision appeared first on Flow Water Advocates.

General Strike Los Angeles has joined A Radical Guide's Financial Solidarity Project, keeping movement money inside the movement while LA County prepares for a general strike.

The post General Strike Los Angeles Joins the Financial Solidarity Project appeared first on A Radical Guide. by Jason Bayless

On August 6, 2026, peace activists and community members gathered outside the West Gate of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and to demand the abolition of nuclear weapons.

The post 81 Años Después de Hiroshima, Activistas se Reúnen en el Laboratorio de Livermore Para Exigir la Abolición Nuclear appeared first on Tri Valley CAREs.

This month, Amazon Watch and the Chapra Nation fulfilled a dream years in the making: we brought solar energy, freezers, and internet connectivity to 12 communities across Chapra territory.

The post The Chapra Nation Is Powering Its Own Future first appeared on Amazon Watch.

Sacramento Punks With Lunch is our July 2026 Mutual Aid General Fund recipient. Learn how they support unhoused neighbors with food, supplies, and solidarity.

The post Mutual Aid General Fund Recipient – July 2026: Sacramento Punks With Lunch appeared first on A Radical Guide. by Jason Bayless

Every single person clocking in deserves to clock out safe and return home healthy at the end of the day, but that basic guarantee is evaporating as extreme temperatures broil the planet. Rank-and-file unionists are setting their own standards.

A grocery industry expert argues that as our food supply becomes increasingly consolidated, expensive, and even dangerous, socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s publicly subsidized grocery plan takes bold steps to provide good, affordable food.

The areas of Kashmir under Pakistani administration are supposed to have political autonomy, but that has long been a sham. The Pakistani authorities have responded to popular protests demanding real democracy with brutal repression.

Peru has been home to the world’s most ambitious experiments in participatory democracy. American progressive and democratic socialist mayors should look to them for both inspiration and warning.

Some nationalisations weaken capital; others strengthen it.

This convention guide has been assembled by YDSA members of DSA’s Libertarian Socialist Caucus. It is endorsed by the caucus, and positions within are official LSC positions. We consider the majority of resolutions at the 2026 YDSA Convention to be uncontentious, procedural, or largely apolitical, or so far down on the overflow agenda it is […]