by Jean Allen A few weeks ago on Chapo Trap House (#1051), the hosts interviewed Tim from the podcast All Lawyers Are Bastards, and his conclusion was notable in how often I’ve…
Category: National Politics
There is a Blade Over Our Heads
by Queer Solidarity Group Note: The following remarks were originally published as a zine to accompany ROC DSA’s 2026 Pride Parade float, featuring a “Gay-o-tine.” The Parade was held Saturday, July 18….
I Want to Put Elon Musk on a PIP
by Jean Allen As I write, the 12th of June, everyone around the world is celebrating. All our struggles, all our toil, all the sadness and stress and anxiety you live your…
The Liberal Attempt to Contaminate Immigrant Solidarity with American Exceptionalism
by Ethan Rhodes Racial terror and removal have returned from the backroom to the front display here in the US, with the Trump Administration’s much-flaunted acceleration of crackdowns on internal immigrant communities…
A Fight Over Power and Heat
The following remarks were delivered by Aidan S. at the Anti-Rate Hike Block Party on May 31, held in opposition to RG&E’s proposed 34% increase in utility bills. We’re all out here…
ROC DSA Statement on the Murders of Eryka Caldwell and Juniper Blessing
Until this murderous, genocidal intent is swept from our nation, we have a responsibility to organize and overturn the unjust systems that lead to this violence. There still exist threats to trans lives even in Seattle and Rochester which are both considered deep-blue cities. The entirety of New York State passed the Trans Safe Haven Act to protect gender affirming care and to protect trans lives. However, work continues at the federal level to strip away these protections. Work still continues to dehumanize trans lives and eradicate trans existence from our nation and from the world by any means available. That means we must continually work to uphold and protect trans lives, dignity, and freedom in the face of these attacks.
The Meaning of Democracy
by Logan W. Cole
“Though we extoll the virtues of democracy in most aspects of our life, we are often completely willing to give up the pretense of pursuing democracy in one place – our jobs.”
D is for “Dialectics”
by Gregory Lebens-Higgins “Dialectics is nothing more than the science of the general laws of motion and development of nature, human society, and thought.”– F. Engels, Anti-Dühring Growing up in the 90s…
Means & Ends
by Jean Allen In 2011, my state college’s radical group held a meeting. At that meeting, a handful of leaders stood in front of a group of seated activists, told us that…
A Contradiction of Interests
by Travis C
Some want us to believe that the failure of our country to act democratically is because our government has been co-opted by “foreign interests,” blackmailing our politicians to distort them from their role of serving Americans. But who actually decides the interests of a government? Can the interests of the American government be at odds with the interests of the American people?