DSA’s vote to expel Nithya Raman or punish the LA chapter is an existential threat to the Left of Los Angeles. By analyzing the balance of forces and allegations against Raman, Matthew J. Hunter and P.K. Gandakin argue against this dangerous move to undermine the working class movement in LA. This internal repression must be rejected if we want mass revolutionary politics. 

Pollsters can tell you what voters will tolerate. They can’t tell you what people will fight for. In T. E. Moon’s latest, he tackles the limits of poll-tested politics, the hunger for accountability, and a modest proposal for the left: Hang the Bastards!

With the 2026 midterms approaching and the GOP historically unpopular, the Trump administration has hatched a flurry of plots to steal the election. An executive order would have handed DHS control over who gets a mail-in ballot, until courts struck it down. But the schemes continue. In a syndicated piece, Light & Air tracks the plot to disenfranchise millions.

The left is retreating from direct confrontation with carceral power. In this two-part series, Nathan Y and Linda L show how Zohran Mamdani’s mayoralty represents “carceral municipalism,” a governance strategy focused on strengthening municipal programs and infrastructure—including policing and jails. The authors argue this approach replicates mistakes of past reformers who expanded police power and threatens to sabotage his entire affordability agenda.

Theories of socialism have tended to overemphasize the capitalist structure and diminish the role of democratic struggle and popular will. But without millions of people struggling for a cause—one which transcends the limits of what has been conceptualized as ‘structure’—we will not have accomplished our goals as a movement.