Resisting the Seduction of Racial Liberalism: Abolitionist Lessons in Naomi Murakawa’s The First Civil Right
Photos from the Hartford January 23rd 2026 Abolish ICE Demonstration
Photo Credits: Kenta Osada
CT DSA Socialists in Office Call To Abolish ICE
The murder of Renee Good by ICE is tragically yet another instance of the brutal violence that ICE is inflicting on people–citizens or not–all over the country. She was the latest among at least 32 people killed by ICE, in just over a year of the Trump administration’s ethnic cleansing…
Biometrics: A Backdoor for Cops. Here’s How to Lock It
Telling Local People’s History: An Interview With Hartford Activist Steve Thornton
Andy PiascikAuthorBuy Books by Andy Piascik and Steve Thornton from here Shoeleather History Bookshop Bookshop Steve Thornton has been an activist in Hartford since moving there in the 1970’s after graduating from the University of Connecticut. He worked for many years for the Hartford-based health care workers union, New England…
Garnet Oak Poetry
Iron Currents Despite a lack of clouds in sight,A bolt of lightning cracks the sky.Collapsing buildings push the airThrough microphones and radio towers.I feel the wind from in my shop,Returning to familiar ground.On every bar of steel I craft,My perspiration leaves a glare.They moisten hands that forge the sheetsAnother rivets…
Zohran Mamdani Didn’t Do It Alone: Comments On A Defining Victory
Bryan CAuthor This moment is a culmination of years and years of organizing by the democratic socialist movement—by DSA, Democratic Socialists of America, the organization that Zohran is a proud member of and proud organizer in, that first endorsed his State Assembly run, and brought him to where he is…
Environmentalism versus Fascism
Emma S.Author There is a deep, although seldom discussed, connection between anti-environmentalism, the belief that there should be no effort made to preserve the environment or even that environmental destruction is acceptable, and various forms of fascism and authoritarianism throughout history. During the first Trump administration, we had already seen…
On The Value of Research
Obscure Class Warfare
by Void Since the beginning of the current administration, we have witnessed an extraordinary restructuring of American governance in ways that are clearly unconstitutional. While the assumption may be that the actions are being taken for corrupt purposes, proving these assumptions becomes difficult due to the obscure nature of finance,…