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What is Salt?
Salt is a collaborative journal between Marxist organizers in Salt Lake City. All contributors are involved in on-the-ground organizing work in various struggles. This journal seeks to give committed socialist organizers a space to publish thoughts and summations on points of organizational, practical, and political theory. In doing so we hope to encourage readers, and contributors to solidify, deepen, and explore answers to the various political questions we are navigating as communists. All editors and initiators of this project are long time organizers in the 801 area.
Recently published
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Affirm and Hold to the Primary Tasks
By: Owen OakThe purpose of this article is to orient communists in the Salt Lake Area particularly toward the practical tasks that must be undertaken if a revolutionary movement is to be built at all, and to correct persistent strategic errors that have repeatedly derailed such efforts. On one side, sections of the left assume that the…
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No Bar Too Small: Suntrapp Workers Show Why Every Workplace Deserves a Union
By: Owen OakWhen the workers at Suntrapp announced their intent to unionize, within hours the lines were drawn. On one side, the overwhelming majority of people backed the workers, recognizing their right to organize and pressuring Mary Peterson, the owner, to respect their decision. On the other side, a smaller but loud group leapt to Mary’s defense,…
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What is a communist?
By: Owen OakTo be a communist is to immerse oneself in the living, breathing movement of history, not to stand as a passive admirer of an abstract ideal. As Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels declared in The German Ideology (1845), communism is “the real movement which abolishes the present state of things,” rooted in the material…
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Breaking Through: Strategies for a Militant Labor Movement
By: Owen Oakthis piece was written with contributions from K. Oliver. The discourse within leftist circles about the strategic importance of organizing in certain sectors remains a contentious topic. For example, some on the left argue that service workers hold little revolutionary potential, emphasizing instead the power of traditional heavy industry due to its direct influence over…
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Gaza is fighting our war: The lie of ‘US interests’
By: Owen OakGaza fights an enemy shared by US workers. We must understand the dynamics of this conflict and how it relates to building struggle in the US.
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SLC’s Other Side Village and the Industrialization of Homelessness
By: K. OliverDrawing comparisons to the Military and Prison Industrial Complexes, K. Oliver argues that the tendency of SLC’s new tiny home village will be towards the exacerbation of the social crisis it purportedly aims to resolve.
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We need to take LGBTQ politics back from wealthy liberal misleaders.
By: Owen OakPower for working class queers, not the fickle good will of an employer, landlord, politician, or public opinion, is what is needed in this moment.
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Stop Protesting, Start Demonstrating: Revolutionary Strategy and Tactics in the 21st Century
By: Comrade NWhat has become of the “demonstration”? Why don’t we hear this word more often? Let’s talk about it.
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Report back: Strike preparation underway at SLC UPS hub.
On Thursday morning, April 20th, around twenty part-time UPS Teamsters gathered for a parking lot meeting in the cold and wind…
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The Communist Organization, Mass Organization, The Unit, and The Cadre.
By: Owen OakThis document covers the basic bodies that we seek to build; Mass Organizations rooted within the working class, and a Communist Organization that exercises leadership within them democratically through Cadre, organized into Units.