Event: After the 2020 Elections—Suggested Readings

Socialist Revolution is organizing an online Marxist school this weekend November 14 & 15, with a great lineup of speakers who will address some of the key issues facing the working class in this period, and present a socialist way forward. If you haven’t yet registered for the event, you can find more details and sign up at socialistrevolution.org/election2020.

Below we list some recommended articles to prepare for the different session topics. Reading is totally optional and the event is friendly to all audiences, regardless of your background!

Election 2020 and the Fight for Socialist Revolution

• “Biden’s Win Is No Victory for the Working Class: We Need a Workers’ Party!” – Fred Weston
• [Video] “Electoral Chaos and the Crisis of American Bourgeois Democracy” – John Peterson
• “US Elections 2020: The Dumpster Fire of American Bourgeois Democracy” – SR Editorial Board
• “Election 2020: The Socialist Case Against “Lesser-Evil” Politics” – SR Editorial Board

Facing Climate Catastrophe: We Need a Planned Economy!

• IMT Theses on the Climate Crisis
• “California: Catastrophe Layered Upon Catastrophe” – David Spenger
• [Video] “Fighting Climate Change: Why We Need a Workers’ Government” – Tom Trottier
• “Climate Struggle Is Class Struggle” – John Peterson

The George Floyd Uprising and the Struggle against Police Terror

• “How Can the Working Class End Police Terror?” – John Peterson (video also available at that link)
• “‘This Is Only the Beginning!’ CHOP and the Juneteenth Longshore Strike” – Arman E.
• “Breonna Taylor: There Can Be No Justice for the Majority under Capitalism!” – SR Editorial Board

¡Ni Una Menos! The Struggle against Femicides in Mexico

• “Femicides in Mexico: Justice for Alexis!” – Arturo Rodriguez
• “Femicide in Mexico: Symptom of a Sick System” – Revolutionary Women’s League
• “The Femicide of Sara Abigail Cannot Go Unpunished, We Demand Justice!” – Noemi Salinas Sandoval
• “Fight Women’s Oppression, Fight Capitalism!” – International Marxist Tendency

How Revolutionary Socialism Can Revive the Labor Movement

• “Workers Fight Back in the Class War against COVID” – Tom Trottier
• “Sara Nelson and the Future of American Labor” – Tom Trottier
• “The Role of Trotskyist in the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters’ Strike” – Marco LaGrotta

Socialism in Our Lifetime! Why We Need a Revolutionary Organization

• International Marxist University 2020: The Power of Ideas
• Perspectives for World Revolution (2020 Draft)
• National Marxist School 2020: A World on Fire
• Marxists around the World March against Racism
• Socialist Revolution – About Us