August/September 2023 Volume 47, Issue 07

August/September 2023

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Labor

Democratic Socialists Are Fueling a Hot Labor Summer Indigo Olivier

Viewpoint

Racial Capitalism Is in Real Peril This Time Barbara Ransby

Socialism at the End of the End of History Alex Han

Feature

The Library Is a Commons Emily Drabinski

New York Socialists Won Big On Climate. How Did It Happen? Liza Featherstone

You Can’t Be a Socialist Alone: Astra Taylor and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Astra Taylor and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Dispatch

Christian Socialists Are Reclaiming Faith from the Right Matt McManus

On Chicago's Northwest Side, Socialists Are Wielding Power in a Whole New Way Jacqui Germain

Culture

Capitalism Is Not “The One” Malaika Jabali

Meet the Left YouTubers Blowing Up the Alt-Right Pipeline Armand D. Jackson, Ivonne Ortiz and Xuandi Wang

Comics

Socialism, In Cartoons

Workers of the World, Eat Up! Brian McFadden

Thou Shalt Not Steal Kendra Wells

Departments

Nationalization Is a Great American Tradition Dayton Martindale

James Weinstein Knew That Capitalism Was Killing Us James Weinstein

Feature The Socialism Issue

The Library Is a Commons

A socialist former president of the American Library Association on why defending libraries is fighting capitalism.

Emily Drabinski

In a protest crowd, a closeup on one protester holding a sign that says "Hochul: Build of Burn"

Feature Climate The Socialism Issue

New York Socialists Won Big On Climate. How Did It Happen?

We don't have to settle for neoliberal half-measures.

Liza Featherstone

Feature Interview The Socialism Issue

You Can’t Be a Socialist Alone: Astra Taylor and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Two intellectual and movement leaders talk candidly about the growing mass rejection of capitalism—and the challenges of converting that into real socialist organization.

Astra Taylor

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

CultureThe Socialism Issue

Capitalism Is Not “The One”

An exclusive excerpt from Malaika Jabali's new book, It’s Not You, It’s Capitalism, a guide to socialism for budding anti-capitalists.

Malaika Jabali

DispatchThe Socialism Issue

Christian Socialists Are Reclaiming Faith from the Right

For these Christians, religion is no opiate—it’s a profound call to action.

Matt McManus

Dispatch

On Chicago's Northwest Side, Socialists Are Wielding Power in a Whole New Way

For city council members Rossana Rodríguez Sanchez and Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, "co-governance" is key.

Jacqui Germain

DepartmentsThe Socialism Issue

Nationalization Is a Great American Tradition

The U.S. government has at various times taken control of radio, railroads, coal mines and banks. Today there are movements afoot to nationalize Amazon, SpaceX, transit and more.

Dayton Martindale

ViewpointThe Socialism Issue

Racial Capitalism Is in Real Peril This Time

The climate crisis is a hard one to buy your way out of.

Barbara Ransby

ViewpointThe Socialism Issue

Socialism at the End of the End of History

Climate change and neoliberalism’s collapse have made the future uncertain. Socialists are faced with a dilemma: How to be ready to seize the moment when we don’t know when or what that moment will be?

Alex Han

DepartmentsThe Socialism Issue

James Weinstein Knew That Capitalism Was Killing Us

In 1976, the first editorial in the first issue of In These Times called for socialists “to speak to corporate capitalism as the great issue of our time.”

James Weinstein

CultureThe Socialism Issue

Meet the Left YouTubers Blowing Up the Alt-Right Pipeline

The Right has flooded the internet with misinformation. The content creators of BreadTube are doing something about it.

Armand D. Jackson, Ivonne Ortiz and Xuandi Wang

ComicsThe Socialism Issue

Workers of the World, Eat Up!

Brian McFadden

ComicsThe Socialism Issue

Thou Shalt Not Steal

Kendra Wells

LaborDispatchThe Socialism Issue

Democratic Socialists Are Fueling a Hot Labor Summer

From strike support to training organizers and supporting union drives, DSA members are helping to build a fighting labor movement.

Indigo Olivier

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