The World is Burning: Your Guide to the Current Uprisings
While Behind the Bastrds isn't an explicitly leftist podcast, I still found these interviews and overviews deeply moving and informative. I highly recommend listening, especially to the interview with northern Syrian journalist Khabat Abbas, who calls for all feminists around the world to stand with Rojava. - ARB

How to set-up a mobile mutual aid herbal apothecary
Herbalists and plant foragers are creating mobile apothecaries! This can be part of climate change resilience work, and also mutual aid. Would anyone like to work on a project to start one here? Contact @kollontaiist on TCDSA Slack if so. - DKR

The Myth of Class Reductionism
Adolph Reed Jr. puts idea of class reduction to bed. - LH

So Many Secrets
Art and culture workers talk about labor organizing. Come for "Solidarity is the opposite of bad vibes"; stay for "Haley, what was your makeup theory of organizing?" (It's very good, trust me.) - TMW

Anti-Fascism Beyond Machismo: Gender, Politics, and the Struggle Against Fascism
After an analysis of the misogyny always present in fascist and far-right movements, this paper, available as a PDF download, examines the role of women in three anti-fascist struggles in history, then goes on to imagine and describe how machismo can be replaced with true feminist militancy to defeat the fascists of today. - DKR

How a Black, Socialist City Councilman Won His Seat in the Heart of the South
This brief Nation article contains a link to the podcast Next Left, featuring khalid kamau, a Black Lives Matter activist and Metro Atlanta DSA former chair, who is now a council member for the recently incorporated city of South Fulton. - DKR

Professional-Managerial Chasm
Here's a very long and analytical post in n+1 by Gabriel Winant that references the milestone work in modern Marxist theory by Barbara and John Ehrenreich that first defined the possibility of a new class - the PMC or professional-managerial class. These concepts are now an automatic part of our analysis even if we use different terms. The piece critically assesses the meaning of the PMC today almost 50 years later, and uses it as a lens to examine topics as widely diverse as the student movements of the 1960s and the differences between the supporters of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. - DKR
Apparently this one really riled up some people but I thought it was about the best analysis of class position and voter coalition makeup I have read in a good while. It’s being read as “another Sanders/Warren piece” but I don’t really think it’s that at all, more of a historical reading of the term “professional managerial class” and the position(s) of the group defined by that term. Very worth reading, I think. - RT

Manufacturing Consent: A Timeline of Policing and Propaganda in Minneapolis
A 200-year timeline of police violence, propaganda, and public discourse. You'll notice a throughline of business owners calling for increasing police presence and budgets, while residents of Minneapolis (which most MPD officers are not) call for their families not to be criminalized and shot
by cops. - TMW

The pundit and the hobo
This is a fun short piece on folk music and the limits of the conservative imagination both for artistic and practical purposes. - RT

Why 'the will of the people' is a myth in British democracy
The ever-thoughtful George Monbiot critiques British democracy and finds it severely wanting. He offers loads of counter-examples striking a balance between representative and direct democracy (somehow without mentioning the US at all!) A very useful article to spark discussion. - DKR

The Stigma of Poverty: In Conversation With Rebecca de Souza
Rebecca de Souza interview. De Souza has written a book called Feeding the Other: Whiteness Privilege and Neoliberal Stigma in Food Pantries, which is available as a download at no cost. - DKR

How to Think Without Googling
You think advances in neuroscience and how to protect your attention muscle from the weakening action of the internet is not about socialism? Au contraire. Because this is about the future and socialism is the future. - DKR

State shuts down Water Gremlin after finding lead poisoning in workers' children
Local workplace and environmental disaster news - Water Gremlin of White Bear Lake, a manufacturer of lead products including battery terminals, has been shut down for at least three days by state regulators (Dept. of Health and Dept. of Labor and Industry.) The company, which employs a diverse workforce including Latinx and Karen workers among others, has been failing to control workers' and their families' exposure to lead, with at least two children testing at health-threatening levels. And this is not Water Gremlin's only environmental problem. - DKR

Chile’s People Have Had Enough
A great primer on the crisis in Chile and how the mass demonstrations there are hard to pin down. - NR

New owner will preserve affordable housing in historic Minneapolis building
More local news features Homeline, where our member AP works. This concerns a historic building in NE saved from gentrification (we hope!) by being bought by Common Bond. - DKR

Solidarity with Striking UK Postal Workers at the Royal Mail Group
In the UK, CWU the Communications Workers Union, is striking Royal Mail, which was privatized by the Tory government. DSA has issued a statement in solidarity with them. - DKR

Peace Pipeline Reveal
TCDSA members participated in this. - ES
 

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