James Dennis Hoff is a writer, educator, labor activist, and member of Left Voice. He teaches at The City University of New York.
Bronx, NY
Joined September 2015
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Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate bid has galvanized a frenzy of progressive support. Yet his campaign is uninterested in promoting independent self-organization from below. This is a fatal flaw.
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After suspending nurse practitioner and union leader Sarah Dowd without pay for standing up against unsafe staffing, NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings was forced to back down. This victory belongs to every nurse and worker who mobilized to defend her.
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As Trump hits his weakest moment yet, progressive populists surge in the midterms. But the Democratic Party can’t channel working-class anger. The fights ahead demand a party of our own.
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After losing the presidential election, Flávio Bolsonaro has fled Brazil and been welcomed by his far-right ally, Donald Trump.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first budget is a master class in compromise and class collaboration. But using methods of class struggle, we can confront the outrageous inequalities of one of the most expensive cities in the world.
@james_d_hoff
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Let me explain what just happened 👇
5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.
5 minutes…
These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.
There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.
Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.
American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.
This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions.
This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight.
You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question.
Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that.
The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…
BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market.
In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold.
These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else at the time.
The trader seemingly made huge gains.
Unusual.
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We recently published an article by the author of the post which he wrote in response to LV’s call for DSA to break with the Democratic Party. We believe casual disregard/tacit support of violence towards other Leftists must not be normalized – we have taken down said article.
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A DSA member made unacceptable comments in reference to the killing of Leon Trotsky by Stalin, which are also an attack against Sawant. We stand in solidarity with Sawant, and join her call to have DSA leadership disavow the comment.
I urge Seattle DSA members to attend the Saturday convention and vote in support of our campaign for Congress.
Our campaign is fighting to end all U.S. military aid to Israel, to shut down ICE, and to win free healthcare for all funded by taxing the rich.
This is a historic opportunity to elect the first-ever revolutionary socialist to the U.S. Congress, and to build on the record of unparalleled victories we have won through class struggle in Seattle, like the nation's highest minimum wage, the Amazon Tax, and landmark renters' rights.
Unfortunately, this horrific post I'm quoting could not go without a response. This DSA member is referring to the murder of Leon Trotsky by one of Stalin's agents. Trotsky and Lenin were two of the indispensable leaders of the 1917 Russian Revolution, the most progressive event in modern human history.
It's a sad commentary on the current state of the left that 45 people have clicked like on the post by this DSA member. I urge DSA leadership to disavow it.
Regarding this person's accusation, it is my responsibility as a socialist to raise criticisms of self-identified socialists like AOC and Mamdani when they betray working people. I don't apologize for that. Nor do I apologize for pointing out that the Democratic Party is a dead end for our movements.
@SeattleDSA @DemSocialists
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“Germany condemns the use of violence against protesters in Iran that are burning banks, business and holy sights”.
Germany with protesters. 👇🏼
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We can't fight for socialism stuck inside the same party that condemns it and censures its members for denouncing genocide. For DSA to be a real alternative, the first step is to break with the Democrats.
We need a working-class socialist party now!
A pointless resolution on the House floor today. Clearly they feel threatened by dem socialists like myself who are unbought & willing to take on the billionaire class.
To @DemSocialists members across the country organizing every day to build more just communities: Thank you!
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Hands Off Venezuela! Stop the U.S. Escalation of Imperialist Aggression in the Region! leftvoice.org/hands-off-vene…, by @left_voice
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ICE is ramping up kidnappings in Detroit, including kids. Teachers are on the frontlines, pushing their institutions to step up the fight.
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📢 « La jeunesse et les travailleurs des USA se tiennent aux côtés des Brésiliens et des latino-américains pour protester contre Trump : Trump hors du Venezuela ! Hors du Brésil ! Hors de l’Amérique Latine ! »
👉 Tristan Taylor, militant @left_voice et BLM
Saturday’s rallies reveal the depth of the ongoing crisis of representation in the United States and the need for a real united front against Trump and the Far Right.
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NOW: We're marching with @Labor4Palestine and other groups at the #NoKings in NYC, demanding the reinstatement of the 4 CUNY faculty who were fired for pro-Palestine activism.
The U.S. state is going after the Left like it’s 1949. Without solidarity and a united front against Trump, we’re cooked.
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This successful blockade represents another escalation of the international movement of port workers to resist Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and its ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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Faced with the global offensive of nationalist and reactionary forces, only the internationalism of the exploited and oppressed can constitute a progressive response. But what exactly is internationalism?
@PhilippeAlcoy
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