Socialists must organize a national movement against Trump’s national emergency.
U.S. President Donald J. Trump declared a national emergency on Feb. 15, arguing that it was necessary to build a wall along the nearly 2,000 mile U.S.-Mexico border because of a criminal invasion taking place (...)
THE VICIOUS, DIRTY – and bipartisan – smear campaign against the first two Muslim women in the U.S. Congress, Ilhan Omar (MN) and Rashida Tlaib (MI), is just beginning. No one should imagine that Rep. Omar’s dignified apology for her tweets about the Israel lobby, which have been willfully twisted (...)
When he first announced he was running in the Republican primaries for that party’s nomination for President, Trump signaled that central to his campaign would be anti-Mexican racism, racism in general against all non-whites, anti-immigrant xenophobia and Islamophobia.
Part of this was his (...)
CAN IT ALL really be Donald Trump’s fault? Do the antics of the worst, most malicious and willfully ignorant president in modern U.S. history serve to explain the spread of authoritarian regimes, racist and anti-immigrant parties, and rightwing fake-populism across much of the planet?
In some (...)
Militarist hawks and liberal pundits alike are up in arms (figuratively speaking, of course) over Donald Trump’s “victory” proclamation and announcement of U.S. troops’ withdrawal from Syria. Howls of Republican outrage may signal a further deterioration of the big twit’s shrinking political (...)
In looking at elections in the United States, deeper trends in the population are difficult to discern, given that the choices are between two capitalist parties, both staunch defenders of capitalist rule and U.S. imperialism.
There are no mass workers’ parties of any stripe. If there were, we (...)
The much-discussed results of the U.S. midterm elections represent, in this writer’s view, a “rebalancing” rather than something “transformative.” It is of course significant that the far-right Republican stranglehold on both houses of Congress as well as the presidency will be broken by the new (...)
Among socialists and the broader left there have been a range of views about what Trump represents. These range from that Trump is an aberration and that things will return to “normal” once he is gone, to that Trump is working toward establishing fascism. I reject the first view. Since 2008 (...)
The midterms have given the Democratic Party a boost. But their professional-class politics are a cul de sac — we desperately need a political revolution driven by the needs and aspirations of the multiracial working class.
The midterm elections produced a range of results as vast, gorgeous, (...)
The midterms have given the Democratic Party a boost. But their professional-class politics are a cul de sac — we desperately need a political revolution driven by the needs and aspirations of the multiracial working class.
The midterm elections produced a range of results as vast, gorgeous, (...)
In the 1940s, a right-wing group terrorized Jewish communities in Boston and New York while authorities looked the other way. Could it happen again?
Anti-Semitism in the United States has been “much more deeply entrenched than most scholars acknowledged"
The massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of (...)
NNU Statement on Synagogue Shooting: ‘End Hate Speech in Wave of Racist/Anti-Semitic Attacks’.
WASHINGTON - In the wake of the heinous assault on a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday, and other attacks of the past week, National Nurses United (NNU) today joined with Americans across the country in (...)
The director’s latest film, Fahrenheit 11/9, is a broadside against both the president and the Democratic establishment that failed to defeat him. He explains why a leftwing comeback is on the cards
It falls to Michael Moore’s empty stomach to help explain to me the difference between hope and (...)
How parents lose their children to families in the United States.
It takes an entire day, and costs a small fortune, for Florence Babirye to get from her home in the ugandan village of Kasolwe to the Kayunga police station. First there’s a motorbike taxi from the village to the nearest bus (...)
HE’S CONFIRMED, ALL right: A confirmed liar, confirmed nasty-drunk sexual predator and hardcore reactionary hand-picked for his confirmed anti-worker judicial record, Brett Kavanaugh is now a confirmed Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The whole spectacle became one of those moments (...)
Aren’t we all feeling so much safer knowing about the anonymous “Quiet Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” revealed by the bombshell New York Times op-ed, assuring us “that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his (...)
Human rights group says there was an attempt to hack the phone of one of its Washington-based staff members by a ’hostile government’.
Amnesty International says one of its employees was targeted with Israeli-made surveillance software as part of a deliberate attempt to spy on the human rights (...)
Democratic Party politicians and media outlets that reflect their positions have attacked Trump with arguments to the right of him on certain issues.
One is U.S. policy on North Korea. Trump has been taken to task for meeting with Kim Jong-un, initiating discussions with the Democratic (...)
Review of: Ron Formisano. American Oligarchy: The Permanent Political Class. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2017. Notes. Index. $19.95.
Consumers of left-wing media are well aware that America is an oligarchy, not a democracy. Everyone with a functioning cerebrum, in fact, (...)
Dan La Botz is a member of Solidarity and of the Democratic Socialist of America (DSA), as well as a co-editor of New Politics. Trained as a historian of the United States and Mexico, he is also a teacher in the graduate Labor Studies program of the Murphy Institute of the City University of New York. New Politics interviews him here about his new book The New American Populism: Resistance and Alternatives to Trump (Nouveau populisme américain: Résistances et alternatives à Trump).
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