For our Valentine's Day edition of The Red Thread, Melanie and Emma discuss the "profoundly social" emotion of love from a revolutionary socialist perspective, with the help of Alexandra Kollontai's work "Make Way for Winged Eros: A Letter to Working Youth." The nuclear family unit and the "love" ties of marriage have been essential for capitalist production for centuries. Women have been burdened with almost all the unpaid labor of family care, and queer people have been criminalized and opp...

In this episode of The Red Thread, we're diving into how Marxism can be used to fight the interconnected systems of racism and capitalism. Black struggle has a rich history, from the fights by the first enslaved Africans to today's recent Black Lives Matter movement, Black struggle has been a driving force in challenging oppression and exploitation. We break down the intersection of racism, class struggle, and capitalism, explore lessons from the Russian Revolution, DRUM (Dodge Revolut...

In today's episode, we recap Trump's first week back in office. From his inauguration full of billionaires and far-right politicians to executive orders attacking immigrants, trans rights, and public health, we break down how Trump's administration is setting the stage for a more aggressive capitalist and imperialist agenda. We discuss the bipartisan complicity enabling his policies and the urgent need to organize from below. Topics include immigration crackdowns, foreign policy aggression, ...

Welcome to the Red Thread! This is the first episode in a series titled "What we talk about when we talk about socialism." We'll revisit key definitions of what revolutionary Marxists understand by socialism or communism, explore the challenges it faces in the current stage of capitalism, and respond to some of the false criticisms—or outright prejudices—that people who support capitalism use to insist that there are no alternatives to this system, or that fighting for a society free from exp...

Join hosts from Left Voice as they dive into the heart of U.S. and international politics through a socialist lens. In a time when a new Trump presidency is emboldening the Far Right and the working class is taking up a larger role in the political arena, The Red Thread offers a sharp, insightful, and concise perspective on the fight against capitalism, oppression, and the rise of the working class. Each episode will explore workers’ struggles, union organizing, socialist theory, social move...