Steve Striffler

Steve Striffler is Director of the Labor Resource Center at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and author of Solidarity: Latin America and the US Left in the Era of Human Rights (Pluto Press, 2019). He is also co-editor of Working in the Big Easy: The History and Politics of Labor in New Orleans.

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Everything Is Impossible Until It Happens—US Foreign Policy as Bernie’s Next Frontier

Sanders represents a foreign policy where the US does not lead by throwing around its military and economic might to the misfortune of Americans and others across the globe, but works in collaboration to create a more democratic and just world.

Steve Striffler · Mar 12, 2020

Venezuela, US Solidarity, and the Future of Socialism

Despite committed work by relatively isolated intellectuals and activists, too many social democrats in the US—willing to attack Trump on almost anything else—have either remained relatively quiet or (worse) largely accepted the premises of his imperialist foreign policy

Steve Striffler · Mar 26, 2019

Hurricane Katrina and Bernie Sanders: From Neoliberal Disaster to 'Political Revolution'

There is only one presidential candidate who has consistently fought for the kinds of policies that New Orleans so desperately required prior to and during Katrina, and that it needs now more than ever.

Adolph Reed Jr. · Aug 29, 2015

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