Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, par MIAH Malik, SHEPPARD Barry
The Democratic Party convention closed on August 22 in Chicago. The neoliberal ruling class party nominated its first Black/South Asian woman for president, Kamala Devi Harris, the daughter of an immigrant mother from India and immigrant father from Jamaica.
Not since 2008 when the first (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Vice-President Kamala Harris, now the Democratic nominee of an enthusiastic party, has had phenomenal initial success. Since entering the race on July 21, she and her running mate Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, have raised $540 million, organized Zoom calls involving hundreds of thousands of (…)
, par Against the Current
FACING THE HIDEOUS specter of a second Trump presidency, the operational leadership of the Democratic Party — that is, the party mega-donors — ultimately took the reins and pushed aside its all-too-visibly declining incumbent standard-bearer. From the voting base on July 21 came the instant (…)
, by HAWKINS Howie
AS SOCIALISTS, HOW should we approach the 2024 presidential election? The two major parties, ideologically capitalist to their cores, present us with a choice between a neoliberal corporate militarist and a neofascist criminal maniac.
As I write this (July 7), Democratic leaders and donors (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
WITH VICE-PRESIDENT Kamala Harris now the Democratic Party candidate, there was first a sigh of relief and then a burst of enthusiasm among Democrats. Many Democrats now say, “we just might be able to win.”
After President Joe Biden’s disastrous performance in his first debate with former (…)
, by WAINER Kit Adam
AS VOTERS, REVOLUTIONARY socialists will face the same choice as all other voters in the United States this November: which candidate is the lesser evil, which one represents the greatest threat?
Socialists, however, are not mere atomized voters. We are trying to popularize a critique of (…)
, by LEVY Gideon
Only a few hours separated Antony Blinken and Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting in Jerusalem and the moving, impressive speech by the U.S. president at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. But the distance between Joe Biden’s sublime remarks and the capitulation of his secretary of state is (…)
, par JACOBS Nicholas
It takes more than camo hats, hot dish and a rural-friendly image to get the votes of America’s rural residents.
The selection of Tim Walz as Kamala Harris’ running mate has sparked a wave of commentary suggesting that simply by elevating a former small-town football coach to the candidacy for (…)
, par SUMMERS Ryan
A growing number of states are passing laws that call scientific theories into question.
Current efforts to stifle scientific theories in school are reminiscent of the attacks on the teaching of the theory of evolution. iStock / Getty Images Plus
Scientific theory has had a rough time in (…)
, by KRISS Sam
Behind the scenes, the online Right is just as divided as the Left—and it’s adopted many of its pathologies too. Are we facing a fascist coup, or just a collapse into political confusion?
Before “weird” became the summer’s hottest and most contentious political insult, JD Vance cheerfully (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
This is the latest in a series of articles on Black candidates for President or Vice-President of the United States. Links to all of the articles in the series can be found at thi end of this one. – DL
Dr. Cornel West, one of America’s most distinguished Black intellectuals, announced in June (…)
, by LEIFER Joshua, SHAHID Waleed
As the Democrats’ convention begins, political strategist Waleed Shahid discusses the possibilities for shifting the party on Israel-Palestine.
Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate ahead of the Democratic National Convention, Dearborn, Michigan, August 18, 2024. (Courtesy of Uncommitted (…)
, by TANURO Daniel
Belgian ecosocialist activist Daniel Tanuro’s book-length deep dive into the Trump phenomenon is now here in a new English translation.
Foreword by Daniel Tanuro to the English Translation
Editor’s Note: In 2017, during the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency, the Belgian ecosocialist (…)
, by ACHCAR Gilbert
Joe Biden will alas not stand in the dock before the International Criminal Court – that much is sure. There is no doubt, however, that the court of history, which is the fairest of criminal courts, will include his name prominently on the list of perpetrators of crimes against humanity.
Since (…)
, by MOOR Ahmed
While Congress cheered Netanyahu, grassroots mobilizations of the Democratic base marked a sharp break from the party’s support for Israel.
Pro-Palestinian protesters in Washington demonstrate against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his speech to the U.S. Congress, July 24, 2024. (…)
, by MIAH Malik
Once again, the police show their true colors: shooting in the face and killing a 36-year-old Black mother, Sonya Massey, in her own home in Springfield, Illinois. She called 911 for fear of an intruder and became the victim. She leaves two teenage children.
It happened on July 6, but the (…)
, by LEVY Gideon
Shame on you, senators and congressmen. Last week, you held one of the most shameful sessions ever held on Capitol Hill. You cheered a politician who is persona non grata in almost every democratic capital in the world, affording him royal treatment.
sraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Kamala Harris could become the first woman president of the United State if she wins in November. Harris is now the putative Democratic Party candidate, having garnered enough votes to win the nomination at the convention later in August, and many progressive Democrats are trying to convince (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
“A couple of weeks ago. Biden said, “Only the ’Lord Almighty’ could convince me to quit.” Well, apparently, He did... At the Republican National Convention, the party’s candidate Donald Trump was hailed not only as the party’s nominee for president, but as a man chosen by God. Was that the same (…)
, by WALD Alan
“…the anti-Semite is inevitably a negrophobe.”
—Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, 1952
Written in Honor of Noam Chomsky
Safety Through Solidarity:
A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism
By Shane Burley and Ben Lorber.
Brooklyn: Melville House, 2024. 375 pages. $19.99 (…)
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