Raul
Excellent coverage of labor and student activist occurances combined with good theory.
the struggle continues. keep up the good work.
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The Activist Online Magazine
http://theactivist.org
The online magazine of the Young Democratic Socialists. Written from a democratic socialist and social democratic perspective, offers news and editorials on American and international politics and issues
- Added on: Jun 3rd, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: YDS USA
- Listed in: Political Activism Student Activism
- Tags: Democrats socialism marx social democracy student activism democratic socialism
Recent Posts
The Climate Justice Movement Breaks Through
MARK ENGLER In early September 2006, Johann Hari, a columnist for the British newspaper The Independent, visited what was then an unusual gathering: a climate action camp. A village of tents had appeared in the shadow of Selby, England’s, towering ...
We’re Gonna Have a Tea Party Tonight, Alright!
JAKE BLUMGART Last Wednesday, at the Ronald Reagan building in Washington, D.C., filmmaker Pritchett Cotten debuted what is sure to be the motion picture event of the season: Tea Party: The Documentary Film. The straight-to-DVD Tea Party will be t...
Call for Submissions: End of Decade Symposium
While nobody has come up with a good name for this decade yet (The Noughties? Really?), that doesn’t mean that we can’t look back and take stock of the craziness that was the first decade of the 21st century. The Activist is accepting rea...
Ironicality 101: Adbusters’ War on Your Little Sister’s Flannel Leggings
BHASKAR SUNKARA Don’t get me wrong–I don’t envy young left-partisans from the 1930s. The high chance of ending up in a gulag or concentration camp or dead in a Spanish trench sounds a bit more terrifying than a paper cut petition-driving ...
The Left Against Progress?
CHRIS MAISANO Because it traces its origins to the Enlightenment tradition, the left has tended to conceive of itself as a “progressive” force, steering the course of History toward a more or less inevitable higher stage of development as the rig...
Mapping Fall Semester U.S. Student Activism
Courtesy of the Student Activism blog in the spirit of this map by German students. (The red markers are building occupations, the blue ones are demonstrations, the green ones are strikes, and the yellow ones are other newsworthy stories. A bla...
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