The heightened struggle for Palestinian liberation and Israel’s bloody retribution against Gaza have created a political crisis in the US. The ruling class and the media are completely united in their fervor for Zionism and Israel’s war, while mass opposition quickly grows and radicalizes. This situation has parallels with other periods of crisis in US history, offering lessons for revolutionary socialists.
Contrary to arguments put forward by the editors of Spectre journal, revolutionaries need to organize now instead of waiting for the spontaneous emergence of a vanguard of the working class. Marxists need to integrate with the vanguard as it develops and influence it in a revolutionary direction from the beginning. As the history of revolution has shown again and again, if we wait until the vanguard has grown to a mass scale it will be too late.
Firebrand had a great experience at the 2023 Socialism Conference in Chicago, which took place over Labor Day weekend. The conference is organized annually by Haymarket Books, a publisher founded by our former organization, the International Socialist Organization (ISO). The conference proved to be a site of struggle and for the building of bonds with cothinkers.
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