strategy and tactics
Struggle requires long view, Jesse Jackson tells left gathering
March 24, 2010A conversation with the Rev. Jesse Jackson before an overflow crowd opened this year's Left Forum conference at Pace University in lower Manhattan this weekend.
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Defend the democratic coalition
March 4, 2010Progressives need to relearn the rich lessons of the New Deal experience, and act accordingly.
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The movement needs to kick it up a notch – part 2
March 3, 2010A transformational era is made from many streams and directions, but I do not agree that slogans should focus primarily on "defeat of the ultra-right."
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The movement needs to kick it up a notch – part 1
March 3, 2010I am not one who thinks a deteriorating political climate will open more opportunities to advance a left agenda.
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Not everybody is on same page
February 18, 2010On the political left, two distinct and competing trends have taken shape in the course of the first year of the Obama presidency.
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