the left
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Why Labor and Campus Organizing Are Not a Zero Sum Game
This post originally appeared at Waging Nonviolence. By Will Meyer Popular left magazines have recently published articles that pit campus organizing against labor organizing. The broad stroke thinking by Amber A’Lee Frost in The Baffler and Freddie DeBoer in Jacobin suggests campus politics isn’t going to win material gains and that serious leftists should wage strategic labor battles as opposed to…
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Spain’s Municipal Elections and the Prospects for Radical Democracy
Photo from the 15M anniversary march in Madrid last week. (Credit: Robert Pluma) With contributions from a New York City social movement delegation currently in Spain ahead of the country’s local elections on May 24th, which includes JSMI Part-Time Staff Member Tamara Shapiro. You can follow their trip on Twitter at @NYCtoSpain, and NYC to Spain…
