The decision of the Robert’s Court striking down a voting map in Louisiana that allowed Black people a smidgen of political representation in Congress — similar challenges will likely be seen in other Southern States — should be an obvious and instructive example of how the struggle for Black equality, political and otherwise, is a political imperative of the larger working class and democratic movement if those movements hope to restrain and ultimately decisively defeat Trump and the entire MAGA movement.

And yet it isn’t always the case. For too many on the left it is considered enough to invoke the language of class, working class, class struggle, and socialism in their commentary outlining what is to be done to move beyond the present conjuncture. The special role of Black workers, Black people, and the struggle for Black equality in the present moment, not to mention at every stage of class and democratic struggle up to and including the struggle for socialism, too often goes unmentioned.