Anders J. Lee is a New York–based writer, podcaster, and member of NYC-DSA.

03.23.2026

• Anders J. Lee

Liverpool’s Municipal Socialists Took the Fight to Thatcher

Liverpool’s left-wing council led one of the most important struggles against Margaret Thatcher’s government during the 1980s. If other Labour-run councils had followed its lead, they could have inflicted a major blow to Thatcher’s agenda.

09.13.2023

• Anders J. Lee

Elmer Benson Showed What a Left Willing to Wield Power Can Do

Elmer Benson became the governor of Minnesota in 1937. His two-year tenure, during which he called the National Guard to defend strikers while other states had police crush them, is proof of the power that a Left capable of controlling the executive can exercise.