2026 Gubernatorial Primary Election Analysis
Preamble The Democratic Party base is in open rebellion. Across the country, establishment and incumbent candidates are being primaried and ousted in a wave that began with Zohran Mamdani’s victory as Mayor of New York City last year. In Connecticut, the gubernatorial primary election that pitted State Representative Josh Elliott…
Which Group has the Rose
“Which Group has the Rose?” Reflections on David Montgomery’s 1992 lecture at Connecticut DSA 1199 Strike Support Event I met a Connecticut Citizen Action Group (CCAG) organizer, a late hippy, with ponytail, moccasins, and a Health Care Workers District 1199 T-shirt at the Fall 1981 University of Connecticut student activity…
A Socialist Sport Straying From Its Roots: Soccer and Capitalism
There is perhaps no greater socialist sport than what we Americans call soccer. It’s a game that requires minimal equipment: a ball and a large space to play with markings for where to score suffices, removing barriers of pay-to-play. The teamwork inherent in play equalizes all players in the match. …
Organizing for abolition in Hartford, Connecticut
Abolition seeks to abolish oppressive and harmful systems like prisons, policing, borders, and, more broadly, capitalism as a whole. Crucially, abolitionists don’t seek to replace these systems with similar systems that are slightly less harmful, like “prisons-lite” or “reformed cops.” Rather, abolitionists seek to make the reasons these systems came…
May Day in Connecticut is Proof of Labor’s Power
While May Day—and the movement for labor power—is gloriously internationalist in its register, Connecticut in particular has seen one of the more violent and precarious shifts in what labor seems to entail. Over the past century, industrial factory floors like the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in New Haven and Scovill…
De-Fanging A Non-Violent Collective Action
De-Fanging A Non-Violent Collective ActionHow ‘Friendly’ Cops & Corporate Local Media Undermine Anti-ICE Messaging On June 3, hundreds of demonstrators from the CT For All coalition staged a non-violent, escalatory action in front of the Abraham A. Ribicoff Federal Building in Hartford, CT. Police were restrained, calmly redirecting traffic around…