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Zenith Volume 4 Footnotes

Zenith Volume 4 Footnotes
Art by William Z

Red Star Points of Unity

  1. Red Star Published Points of Unity
  2. Anatomy of the Micro-Sect, Hal Draper
  3. Reflections from a Former DSA Staffer, Hayley Banyai-Becker

Build the Foundation to Raise the Roof

  1. All the Rules of the Art: The Struggle for Good Governance in DSA, Sam H-L and Megan R, Red Star
  2. A Critique of the Strategic Campaign, Victoria B and Matt M, Red Star
  3. Why the Vanguard?, Victoria B, Red Star
  4. On Protagonism, John L, Red Star
  5. Red Star's NPC Newsletter - March 2025, Evelyn B
  6. Protagonism and the Party: On Staff- and Member-Led Organizing, Max M, Rose K, Red Star
  7. Is DSA Really in Crisis?, Emmett McKenna, Socialist Forum
  8. Democracy, Togetherness, Building Power, Joseph H, Red Star
  9. Workers Need a Hammer, Red Star

Race, Class, and Empire: Reading J. Sakai’s ‘Settlers’

  1. Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat, J. Sakai
  2. Our Theory of Power, Green New Deal Campaign Committee
  3. Our Theory of Power, Green New Deal Campaign Committee
  4. The GND Now: Theory and Praxis, Green New Deal Campaign Committee
  5. What Is To Be Done? Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Marxists.org
  6. Unions Won't Make Themselves Red, Christian CW, Red Star
  7. In a Victory for Autoworkers, Auto Tariffs Mark the Beginning of the End of NAFTA and the “Free Trade” Disaster, UAW
  8. Why the Left Needs Tariffs in Its Economic Toolbox, Hillary Haden, The Call
  9. DSA National Budget and Finance Committee: 2024 in Review
  10. DSA Afro-Socialist Convention Proposal
  11. PHL DSA's Statement: Against Police Violence and Austerity, For Worker Power
  12. Heat for NYC-DSA after pro-Palestine rally, Nick Reisman, Emily Ngo and Jeff Coltin, Politico
  13. We Do Not Condemn Hamas, and Neither Should You, Hazel F, Peter L, and Shiloh B, Red Star
  14. No Money for Massacres Phonebanks, DSA
  15. Uncommitted is Committed to the Democratic Party, Joseph H, Red Star
  16. Internal Statement on Congressman Bowman, DSA Discussion Forum
  17. An Open Letter to the NPC Regarding Nithya Raman, DSA Discussion Forum

Studying Fascism in the Second Trump Term: Reading R. Palme Dutt’s ‘Fascism and Social Revolution’

  1. Fascism and Social Revolution, R. Palme Dutt, Marxists.org
  2. Ten Theses on the Far Right of a Special Type: The Thirty-Third Newsletter (2024), Tricontinental
  3. Building International Socialism In A New Era, Sam H-L, Red Star

Protagonism and the Party: On Staff- and Member-Led organizing

  1. Why the Vanguard?, Victoria B, Red Star
  2. DSA as a Placeholder, Red Star
  3. On Protagonism, John L, Red Star
  4. Protagonism and Productivity, Michael A. Lebowitz, Monthly Review
  5. What Is To Be Done? Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Marxists.org
  6. Membership trends and the first-year retention problem, DSA Discussion Forum
  7. All the Rules of the Art: The Struggle for Good Governance in DSA, Sam H-L and Megan R, Red Star
  8. Mass Organizations and NGOs in a Socialist Movement, Ramsin Canon, Midwest Socialist
  9. What Went Wrong with the Sunrise Movement? Lake Liao, The Princeton Progressive
  10. Frequently Asked Questions, Sunrise
  11. Developing Mass Protagonism, Leftroots
  12. A Critique of the Strategic Campaign, Victoria B and Matt M, Red Star
  13. Uncommitted is Committed to the Democratic Party, Joseph H, Red Star
  14. Reflections from a Former DSA Staffer, Hayley Banyai-Becker
  15. We Can Fix DSA’s Budget (Without Devastating the Organization), Colleen J and Renée P, The Agitator
  16. Our Organizing & Economic Health are Inseparable. Here’s How We Protect Both. Groundwork
  17. Resolution Regarding DSA Budget Priorities, Renée Paradis and Cara Tobe
  18. How the DSA Deficit Happened—and How to Fix It, Socialist Majority Caucus Steering Committee
  19. Toward A Financially-Stable DSA: A Joint Statement from Red Star, Marxist Unity Group, and Bread & Roses, DSA Discussion Forum
  20. How Red Star Is Thinking About Layoffs, Red Star

Faction or Tendency? Developing Red Star’s Conception of the ‘Political Center’

  1. How Red Star Works, Matt M, Red Star
  2. Democracy, Togetherness, Building Power, Joseph H, Red Star
  3. Sectarians, Sheepdogs, and the Center, Red Star
  4. Anatomy of the Micro-Sect, Hal Draper
  5. Democracy, Togetherness, Building Power, Joseph H, Red Star

Unions Won’t Make Themselves Red

  1. DSA on New Terrain, Sean Estelle, Jen McKinney, and Megan Svoboda, Socialist Forum
  2. Shawn Fain: May Day 2028 Could Transform the Labor Movement—and the World, Shawn Fain, In These Times
  3. Federal Worker Unions Sue to Block Trump From Stripping Bargaining Rights, New York Times
  4. Trump Quietly Decimates a Pivotal Labor Relations Agency, KJ Boyle, The American Prospect
  5. Union Members Summary, US Bureau of Labor Statistics
  6. East and Gulf coast ports strike, with ILA longshoremen walking off job from New England to Texas, stranding billions in trade, Lori Ann LaRocco, CNBC
  7. ILA will Maintain Pledge to Handle Military Cargo During Strike; Passenger Cruise Ships to be Unaffected by 10/1 Strike, International Longshoremen's Association
  8. This Union Is Famous for Opposing South African Apartheid. Now It’s Standing With Gaza., Sarah Lazare, The Nation
  9. The Radical History of the United Electrical Workers, James Young, Jacobin
  10. How the “AFL-CIA” Undermined Labor Movements Abroad, Jeff Schuhrke, Jacobin
  11. The Rank and File Strategy: Building A Socialist Movement in the U.S., Kim Moody, Solidarity
  12. 2023 DSA Convention Results
  13. X, National Right to Work Committee
  14. Where Are the Teamsters Headed Under Sean O’Brien?, Brian Denning, The Call
  15. Teamsters for a Democratic Union and the New Labor Insurgency, Ken Paff, Jacobin
  16. Shawn Fain: May Day 2028 Could Transform the Labor Movement—and the World, Shawn Fain, In These Times
  17. Full interview: UAW President Shawn Fain on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan", Face the Nation, Youtube
  18. Statement from concerned Steering Committee Members on the Future of Reform in the UAW
  19. UAW Reformers Close Caucus, Launch New Organization, Jane Slaughter and Keith Brower Brown, Labor Notes
  20. UAW Reformers Close Caucus, Launch New Organization, Jane Slaughter and Keith Brower Brown, Labor Notes
  21. CORE: The Rise and Resolve of CTU’s Fighting Caucus, Elliot Frank, Rampant
  22. CTU announces historic tentative agreement, major leap forward toward transforming Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Teachers Union
  23. CTU reaches tentative agreement with CPS after year of contract negotiations, Stephanie Wade, ABC
  24. Nearly 80% of Chicagoans disapprove of Mayor Brandon Johnson, new poll finds, Alex Ortiz, Fox
  25. Studying Fascism in the Second Trump Term: Reading R. Palme Dutt’s ‘Fascism and Social Revolution’, Matt M, Matt N, Red Star
  26. Anatomy of the Micro-Sect, Hal Draper
  27. Race, Class, and Empire: Reading J. Sakai’s ‘Settlers’, Christina W, Eve B, Red Star
  28. Labor for an Arms Embargo - Launch Call, DSA Labor, Action Network
  29. Why the Vanguard?, Victoria B, Red Star

Why the Vanguard?

  1. Points of Unity, Red Star
  2. What Is To Be Done? Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Marxists.org
  3. Western Marxism and Imperialism: A Dialogue, John Bellamy Foster and Gabriel Rockhill, Monthly Review
  4. Red Star: or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Vanguard, William P. and William O., Socialist Majority Caucus
  5. What Is To Be Done? Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Marxists.org
  6. A Critique of the Strategic Campaign, Victoria B and Matt M, Red Star
  7. On Protagonism, John L, Red Star
  8. Principled Socialist Values ARE Mass Politics! Sam H-L and Andrew D, Red Star

Building International Socialism In A New Era

  1. Progressive International
  2. China is Bigger, Get Over It, Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research
  3. China Is Burning All Its Bridges with Israel, Derek Grossman, RAND
  4. China’s assistance to Cuba a part of global opposition to hegemony, Global Times
  5. 14th World Socialism Forum opens in Beijing, CGTN
  6. Wenhua Zongheng, The Tricontinental
  7. “TikTok难民”涌入小红书怎么看 | 人民锐见
  8. Tandem
  9. How to Break the Vicious Cycle of Underdevelopment in the Global South, Marco Fernandes, The Tricontinental
  10. Secretary Marco Rubio with Megyn Kelly of The Megyn Kelly Show, US Department of State
  11. "Democratic" anti-communism, Sam H-L, Notes from a Crisis
  12. Welcome to the New Military-Industrial Complex, Michael T Klare, The Nation
  13. Pentagon proposes $50 billion in annual cuts and identifies priorities to expand, Tom Bowman, NPR
  14. Thousands to begin forced leave at USAID under Trump’s plan to gut the agency, Matthew Lee, Farnoush Amiri and Lindsay Whitehurst, PBS
  15. No Money for Massacres! No Support for Genocide! DSA Campaign
  16. DSA can Support Student Protests for Palestine, Finnialla Wright, Democratic Left
  17. No Appetite for Apartheid, Francesca, Partisan
  18. It’s Time for Cuban Americans to Support the Fight to End the US Embargo, Danny Valdes, Democratic Left
  19. ZENKO Henoko Anti-Base Project (ZHAP), DSA International Committee
  20. Ratify Resolution #14 and Continue the Positive Direction of DSA’s International Solidarity Work!, Elizabeth M, Sam H-L, and Michael S, Fog City Rose
  21. DSA Political Platform
  22. For a Class-Struggle Internationalism, Amendment to the IC Consensus Resolution
  23. DSA Venezuela Solidarity, DSA International Committee
  24. CR2: International Committee Consensus Resolution – Building an Internationalist Party, DSA Discussion Forum
  25. Cuban Links: No Tolerance For Disorganizing Chauvinism, Christina W, Ron J, Andrew T, Red Star
  26. Can Americans Travel to Cuba? Tony Perrottet, Condé Nast Traveler
  27. Xi says China ready to invite 50,000 young Americans in 5 yrs to boost exchanges, Xinhuanet
  28. X, Reform and Revolution Caucus