The Rise of a New Left: How Young Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics

by Raina Lipsitz Verso 09/27/2022, hardcover SKU: 9781839764264   How the first major leftwing generation since the sixties has shaped electoral politics The mushrooming rolls of the Democratic Socialists of America, Marxist explainers in Teen Vogue, and the outsized impact of the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, all herald a new, youth-inflected radical politics. 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