Category Socialism

Red Squirrel’s Lair

A wondrous new commie blog, Red Squirrel’s Lair, is born. Sample (from a long, thoughtful post on Rosa Luxemborg and real democracy within a vanguard party.) The underlying rationale of sectarians is that, if the revolutionaries of old were right…

Green Lefts:Left Greens

From my comrade Dave Riley in Australia comes his latest, Green Left:Left Greens GreenLefts:LeftGreens is an Australian based hub that aggregates resources on the environment from a green left and a left green perspective. That makes three of us now;…

The Left and climate change

Life of Riley has a highly useful post of leftist views on the environment and climate change, including podcasts and background material. It’s titled Environmentally aware blogging and podcasting from a determined left perspective. Check it out. Greenie treehugger sites…

Quote of the day: Saul Alinsky

Looking back at the 1930s, [Alinsky] said, “Anybody who tells you he was active in progressive causes in those days and never worked with the Reds is a goddamn liar. Their platform stood for all the right things, and unlike…

Soapbox Agitation

Friend and filmmaker Travis Wilkerson new multi-media performance piece, “Soapbox Agitation #1: Proving Ground” debuted at the Sundance Festival in January. From the Village Voice review If a single screen can’t hold the world’s countless horrors, documentary rabble-rouser Travis Wilkerson…