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The French Turn, the DSA, and Revolutionary Regroupment

by Doug Enaa Greene | Jan 14, 2024

In recent years, the threat of Trotskyist entryism has served as a bogeyman for some members of the Democratic Socialists of America — and a stated goal for others. But the history of the French Turn reveals a strategy that is only viable for Trotskyist organizations under very specific conditions. It is always doomed to fail within the DSA, which is essentially an appendix of the capitalist and imperialist Democratic Party. This analysis has important implications for how we approach the united front and revolutionary regroupment.

The Spectre of Spontaneism

by Steve Leigh | Oct 2, 2023

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.

Navigating a Marsh, Not a Rose Garden: On Tempest’s Orientation on the DSA

by E. Reed | Aug 30, 2023

In the leadup to the DSA’s national convention, the Tempest Collective assessed the organization and their work within it. Firebrand points out that skipping the work of political and organizational clarification in order to influence broader layers means accomplishing neither.

Years for the Locust? Part Two: Leninism Deformed

by E. Reed | Jul 30, 2023

Continued from Part One After my first experiences with the International Socialist Organization (ISO), what convinced me to join was the sincere belief that my views and actions mattered. After meeting up with some comrades from the organization in early 2011, we...

Communist Perspectives for Firebrand — Part One: A World in Crisis

by E. Reed | Jul 30, 2023

A revolt contained, but polarization continues In 2020, we witnessed the biggest wave of protests in the United States in the past 50 years, if not ever. The George Floyd rebellion was the highest phase so far in a long series of cycles in the recent Black liberation...

Years for the Locust? Part One: The Myth of the Microsect

by E. Reed | Jun 21, 2023

Introduction “Trotsky considers the opportunist current and its leaders somewhat as victims of circumstances… There is no doubt that opportunism, like all else in the world has its objective causes in external conditions. But in politics more than anywhere else, to...