“Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.”
― The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Political Writings and Presentations
After the Election of Mamdani November 5, 2025
Tragedy and Farce: On the 2024 Presidential Race August, 2024
Learning From Zapatismo: The 30th Anniversary, Security in Context, Jan 1, 2024.
“US Socialist History, 1980s- Present” Democratic Socialist of America North Texas Socialist History Series, August 6, 2022.
“Indigenous Struggles and Decolonization: Theory and Practice” University of Rojava, June 23, 2022.
(with Erin V. White) “Democrat trifecta at a time of growing fascism.” Medium. January 2021
Delegate to the 17th Meeting of the World Congress
Current Political Conjuncture in the United States, International Institute for Research and Education, Amsterdam Netherlands. November 26, 2017
(with Suren Moodliar, Victor Wallace, Kali Akuno, et al.) Perspectives on ‘The Party’ question.” Socialism and Democracy (Volume 31, no 3) November, 2016
“Organizing with the Indigenous Environmental Network” Interview of Kandi Mossett, Socialism and Democracy (Volume 30, no 2) July, 2016
“A Socialist Convergence in Philadelphia.” International Viewpoint. June 2016
“A Green View of the Katrina Disaster,” Synthesis/Regeneration 39 (1) Winter 2006
“New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Catastrophe” Monthly Review Online and International Viewpoint. September 2005
Union and Professional Assocaition Memberships:
Past Memberships:
Gradaute Employee Union/ UAW 2322 (Officer/Joint Council)
New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice (co-founder)
National Writers Union/ NWU UAW 1981
Texas State Employes Union/ CWA 6186
International Longshoremen’s Association Local 3000
Teamsters Local 270
Hotel Employees Restaurant Employees/ UNITE HERE 2262
United Teachers of New Orleans/ AFT Local 527
Industrial Workers of the World Local 650
Delegate to the Seventeenth World Congress of the Fourth International, February 2018
Delegate, Fórum Social Mundial III/ Third World Social Forum, Porto Alegre Brazil, 2003
Miscellaneous Works
with Robert Pitts, Sebastian Ebarb, Abendour Bouich, Sebastian Ebarb, Jean-Luc Pierite and Thomas Parrie, Afro-Indigenous Futurisms Bibliography/ Reading List, 2023
Robert B. Caldwell 