Zach Carlson
Zach is chair of the Illinois Bloomington-Normal club. He holds a Master’s of Science in History with a focus on 20th Century left, labor, and party history. He is also a union delegate with the Chicago IWW.
Fighting alienation, new urbanism, and working class neighborhoods
The New Urbanism Movement helps address concerns raised in convention discussion, particularly climate change.It needs more working class and left influences.
We help each other: The Unemployment Councils of the Great Depression
A brief history of the Communist Party’s Unemployment Councils.
Labor Day, every day!
For a special Labor Day edition, The Specter talks with a young electrician and union organizer from Texas about the nuts and bolts (and conduit and wiring) of trade unionism.
In other words, democracy
CPUSA practices democratic centralism. What does that mean, and how is it different from capitalist democracy?