The rise of a new Left : how young radicals are shaping the future of American politics / Raina Lipsitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lipsitz, Raina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democratic Socialists of America.

New Left--United States.

New Left.

Political activists--United States.

Political activists.

Social movements--United States.

Social movements.

United States--Politics and government--2021-.

United States.

Socialism--United States.

Socialism.

Physical Description:

xvi, 256 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2022.

Summary:

The Rise of a New Left gets behind the headlines about AOC and her cohort of elected officials to tell the stories of the young organizers who created the Squad and the new social movements that have roiled US politics, from the DSA to the Sunrise Movement to Justice Democrats. Ranging across the country to describe grassroots organizing in places like rural Pennsylvania, upstate New York, Kentucky, Florida, and California, this book examines the panoply of strategies and struggles of activists working in--and trying to transform--electoral politics and the climate justice, racial justice, and labor movements. Alongside Ocasio-Cortez, we hear from the even younger Alexandra Rojas, one of the strategists who guided her political insurgency.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Young People Power the Rise of Bernie Sanders

2. New Kids on the Block

3. Youth-Run, Movement-Driven Organizations

4. Sanders-Style Populism Comes to Pennsylvania

5. A Country on Fire

6. New Pipelines, New Strategies, New Leaders

7. Why the Left Needs Organized Labor

8. Where We Are and Where We're Going.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-244) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781839764264

1839764260

OCLC:

1338683763