Neal's Writing Elsewhere
Neal has been writing about politics and democratic socialist strategy for the last few years in Jacobin, The Call, and elsewhere.
2024
Something Fundamental Must Change in The Call (November 6)
Which Party Wants to Preserve the Status Quo? in Jacobin (October 9)
The Left Needs a Real Strategy for a Harris Presidency in Jacobin (September 7)
Labor Notes 2024 is the Next Step for Building Union Power in The Call (April 17)
Palestine, Labour Activism and the US Presidential Elections: An Interview with Neal Meyer (Bread & Roses DSA), an interview with Federico Fuentes in Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal (January 27)
2023
Brazil's Socialists on Party Building and Fighting the Right, an interview with Pedro Fuentes and Mariana Riscali in The Call (August 18)
Act Like an Independent Party with Alex Pellitteri and Nick Conder in The Call (August 2)
EUA: “Olhamos com muito entusiasmo o movimento operário” in Revista Movimento (June 7)
Dogmatism and Opportunism, or: How Not to Live a Life on the Left in The Call (May 17)
The Right Played Hardball in Congress. The Left Should Take Notes. in Jacobin (January 30)
2022
The Case for Proportional Representation with Simon Grassmann in Current Affairs (December 12)
Debating Party Building at the 2022 NYC-DSA Convention in The Call (November 16)
How to Build a Party-like Structure in New York with Alex Pellitteri in The Call (October 20)
Put Politics First in The Call (August 29)
The Right Fearmongers About Progressives, But the Democratic Party Remains Neoliberal in Jacobin (August 24)
New York DSA Stood Strong Against an Establishment Counterattack on Tuesday in Jacobin (June 30)
Socialists Believe in Workers Liberating Themselves in Jacobin (January 13)
Bernie Wants Democrats to Fight for the Working Class. They Won't. in Jacobin (January 12)
2021
You're Right to Think 2021 Was Terrible in The Call (December 31)
Democrats Will Probably Lose the Midterms. But They Don’t Have To. in Jacobin (September 28)
Why Socialists Should Support Proportional Representation with Simon Grassmann in Jacobin (July 26)
Who Holds the Power in Joe Biden's White House? in The Call (June 14)
Republished with edits as Who Holds the Power in Joe Biden's White House? in Labor Notes (July 29)
Republished with edits as Under Joe Biden, Corporate Interests Are Still Steering the Ship in Jacobin (July 31)
Why We'll Need Our Own Ballot Line, Eventually in The Call (February 16)
2020
This Time Is Different: Socialists and the Lesser Evil with Eric Blanc in The Call (October 26)
How the George Floyd Protests Are Changing National Politics in The Call (June 2)
Why You Should Be a Socialist — and a Marxist in Jacobin (April 15)
AOC Is Right: She and Joe Biden Should Not Be in the Same Party in Jacobin (January 7)
2019
1,000 Days in the New DSA in The Call (October 21)
2018
The Blue Trickle in The Call (November 8)
The Case for Bernie 2020 with Ben Beckett in The Call (August 16)
What is Democratic Socialism? in Jacobin (July 20)
Republished with edits as What is Democratic Socialism? in The Call (September 26)
Pre-2018
Electoral Strategy After Bernie's Campaign in Against the Current (July 1, 2016)
How to Run a Socialist Reading Group in the Democratic Left blog (May 18, 2016)
Three Lessons for Young Labor Organizers in Talking Union (December 22, 2014)
A Historical Perspective On Occupy in In These Times (November 26, 2013)