Bernie or Bust? The Way Forward for the Revolution

How can we end the vicious two-establishment-parties cycle once and for all? Serious activists who really want a revolution need to examine the issues carefully.

Bernie: Build a Mass Socialist Party of the Working Class!

Bernie Sanders is at a critical moment in history. As a self-identified socialist, he could single-handedly turn US politics upside down by transforming his campaign into a new, mass socialist party.

Iowa Democratic Party Caucus Shows Need for Socialist Labor Party

Bernie Sanders, who identifies as a socialist and calls for a “political revolution against the billionaire class,” was defeated by Hillary Clinton by a mere 0.3%.

What Trump Is and How to Fight Him

The serious bourgeois press, with the aid of bourgeois academics, is almost uniformly concluding that Trump is something like a “proto-fascist.” But this analysis has serious shortcomings.

Bernie, Billionaires, and PACs: Campaign Finance and the 2016 Presidential Election

With elections flooded with, and controlled by money from from big business, the salient question is: which way forward?

Sanders’s Socialism and the Third American Revolution

Many workers and youth are attracted to Sanders because he is the only mainstream candidate to identify as a socialist calling for a “political revolution” against “the billionaire class.” Where will his program of reforms […]

[Leaflet] Bernie Sanders and the 2016 Presidential Election

Bernie’s calls for “socialism” and fighting against the “billionaire class” resonate with millions of people. This raises important questions for everyone who believes that a better world is possible.

Bernie Sanders and the 2016 Presidential Election

Bernie’s decision to run for the Democratic Party’s nomination has shaken up the status quo. To understand what Sanders represents, we must examine his program and strategy.

Election 2014—Big Business Wins Again

What if they held an election and nobody came? In some ways, the 2014 midterm election was very much like this. Just 36.6 percent voted, only 13% of them under age 30, and as many […]

Midterm​ ​Elections: Voter Consciousness​ and the Need for a Labor Party

​We republish below the transcript of a speech delivered by​ WIL member Martin Michaels ​on ​November 1 in Minneapolis, MN​,​ at the March Against​ ​Corruption.    

The NYC Mayoral Election and the Working Class

2013 is an off year for elections, involving races for cities, towns, and a few state governments. Among the more prominent elections is the one for mayor of New York City, which the ruling class […]

Election 2012: The More Things Stay the Same, the More They Change

$6 billion and over a year of campaigning later, and it would appear that the status quo remains. Obama is still the president; the Democrats control the Senate; and the Republicans control the House of […]