If you're like us, your anxiety is probably at an all time high. You watched like we did as thousands of right wing insurrectionists stormed the United States Capitol and you probably felt a lot of feelings you would honestly rather not feel. Us too.

How do we grapple with a world where we find ourselves so powerless? The working class must change it. We believe a better world, a socialist world is possible. Let's build it together.

2021 Chapter Goal Setting Meeting THIS Saturday!

2021 Chapter Goal Setting Meeting

Saturday, January 16th

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Join us as we plan for the year! Do you believe we should laser focus on Medicare for All, a Green New deal, 2k Covid relief checks, something else? Come prepared to engage and listen to your comrades as we see what members want as a chapter priority campaign. We will also discuss other chapter goals around growing membership, increasing block aims, communications, and anything and everything you desperately want mentioned. Learn and strategize on how campaign committees like labor, education, electoral, eco socialists, and DARC can continue their work while we work as a chapter on overall goals.

Coup? Not a coup? Does it matter?

Over the last week, this country has tried to wrap it head around last week's Capitol insurrection. There have been a lot of hot takes and a lot of pundits yelling at you about how you should feel. This spectacle is exhausting and it's important to remember that is by design.

The ruling class loves to weaponize the very real anxiety American politics constantly forces down our throats if only to further alienate us into falling in line with the status quo.

We cannot let that happen. None of this is or ever was normal or sane. Capitalism is insanity, don't let it rob you of yours.

Article of the week: How to Keep On Keeping On by Ellen Friedman

Even asking the questions is exhausting.

Who’s making the Covid decisions, and why do they change every day? How has the workload doubled? What about the new extremes of micro-management? Which of my co-workers, or their families, or my customers or patients or students are going to get sick?

And why can’t we seem to do anything to stop all this suffering?

The pull to give up, to withdraw, to hunker down and “just survive” is almost irresistible—even for a committed activist like you.

But here we are. We are connecting to one another at work, even if just through images on a screen. We know that others are in the same situation, and we remember that the fight we were already committed to—for decent, dignified work and the power needed to grab it—was always going to be a long and hard haul.

So how do we make it through to the other side of this pandemic, with some semblance of solidarity and sanity?

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