Socialism

How To Fix The Housing Crisis

There is a housing crisis in America’s cities.

Destroy Property

In 1880, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad established the Baltimore and Ohio Employees’ Relief Association. It provided coverage for illness, on-the-job accidents and death. In 1884, the B&O offered a pension paying up to 35 percent of pay to workers 65 and older with at least 10 years of service.

The Means of Production

Below is the text of a presentation I gave as part of a “teach-in” event hosted by the Penn State chapter of Young Democratic Socialists.

Human beings need things to live. We need shelter to keep us dry, clothes to keep us warm, food that we can turn into…

The Socialist Vision for Sports, Part One: Early Labor Struggles

My writing background is in soccer. I started out blogging as a teenager, and managed to make it my job for a few years. Growing up, my mother would half-joke that our family’s religion was “fundamentalist athlete,”…

They Will Take It All

It was reported on Tuesday that congressional Republicans have set their sights on rolling back the Endangered Species Act, because of course they have.

The Only Path Is Left

The Democratic Party is in disarray. In 2008, Barack Obama came into the White House with a commanding mandate: more popular votes than any Presidential candidate in history, a majority in the Senate, a majority in the House of Representatives and control of 27 state legislatures.