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For information: we publish below a recent comment by US Senator Bernie Sanders, one of the most influential figures of the left inside the Democratic Party.
As the count currently stands, nearly 80 million Americans voted for Joe Biden. With this vote against the authoritarian bigotry of (...)
Two weeks after the November 3 presidential election, Donald Trump continues to tell the country and world, “I won the election”. He insists it was not even close: “I won by millions of votes.”
His cohorts, from his cabinet on down the line, declare support for their “leader”. They say the system (...)
Democrat Joseph Biden defeated Republican President Donald Trump by a popular vote of about 78.6 to 72.9 million votes and an Electoral College vote of 306 to 232, yet Trump has refuses to concede and calls the vote “rigged” and the election “stolen.” While he has not spoken publicly, his Tweets (...)
Aaron Amaral and Phil Gasper offer analysis and perspectives coming out of the 2020 U.S. elections..
A satirical headline from the day after the presidential election captures the feeling of much of the Left: “Jubilant Reaction to Trump’s Defeat Quickly Soured by News of Biden Win.”
We take as (...)
’I hate to spell this out, but the current mood in the US approximates that of civil war, and it may just be a matter of time before one side, the Trump forces, translates that mood into something more threatening, more ugly’
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Joseph Biden and Kamala Harris are the winners of the 2020 presidential election. The Democratic candidates won more votes than any ticket in history. However, Trump won the second most votes, indicating how close the election was.
Harris is the first woman, and the first person of color (she (...)
THE ELECTION IS now over except a few recounts, dead-end Trump lawsuits and two Georgia Senate runoffs. Most of America – and the world — is righteously celebrating the end of the Trump-Pence presidency and the specter of another four years of the national and international nightmare. Thanks to (...)
In the most important American election in decades, the American people voted on November 3 to remove the authoritarian Republican Donald Trump from the presidency, a majority voting instead for Democrat Joseph Biden. While the electorate was deeply divided and the vote close in several states, (...)
While Biden looks like he will pull out a squeaker of a win, the main goals of his campaign failed miserably, writes Susan Pashkoff.
Biden unsuccessfully attempted to demonstrate that Trump(ism) was an aberration due to insufficient numbers of voters in 2016 and that this division, upon which (...)
Joe Biden and the Democrats have steadfastly refused to articulate a compelling alternative political vision to Donald Trump’s reactionary right-wing politics. Trump looks likely to have lost, but without creating an alternative to defeat it, Trumpism could return with a vengeance four years (...)
A Critique of Kit Wainer’s Complacent View
Kit Wainer’s essay “A very ‘American` coup” dismisses as alarmist and very very improbable a Trump success in stealing the election. Wainer bases his confident prediction on several arguments: That when it appears to his Congressional and Party supporters (...)
Last week, my family drove from upper Manhattan to southern Pennsylvania. We went to visit my parents in Gettysburg. On their street, Trump signs jostle with those asserting: “This battle was fought because Black Lives Matter.” A few days before our arrival, a Trump truck caravan rolled down (...)
Vote-counting in the US presidential elections is not yet over although Biden seems to be close to victory. A view from the US. [IVP]
Legal challenges notwithstanding, Joe Biden’s apparent victory in both the popular and electoral college vote brings to a close a sordid US presidential (...)
[This initial response was authored by David Finkel for the National Committee of Solidarity. We continue to follow events. By late Wednesday afternoon, with the Electoral College result appearing to swing narrowly toward Biden in Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona and Nevada, the Trump campaign is (...)
Trump’s appointee for the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, whose approval will be jammed through in unprecedented haste by the Republican controlled Senate on October 26.
Barrett is on the far right among judges. A member of a fringe religious group that believes the husband is the head of the (...)
“I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation.” ‒ Malcolm X, from an (...)
We are now three weeks from the U.S. presidential election as the country sees a worsening of the pandemic, a continued economic crisis, threats of armed violence from the right, and an increasingly erratic President Donald Trump whose own experience with coronavirus leads him—perhaps because of (...)
The American election and the country’s future are once again a question. Early on the morning of October 2, President Donald Trump tweeted that he and wife Melania Trump had both contracted the coronavirus. Since then it was revealed that others, including the director of the presidential (...)
Voter suppression has become a real issue in recent years. The major discussion has been centered on Democrats correctly accusing the Republicans of disenfranchising people of color and working class people.
But now the Democrats are actively seeking to keep the Green Party presidential and (...)
In August, Trump nominee Amy Coney Barrett delivered a key ruling blocking many gig workers from suing in court when tech companies deny them overtime pay. It’s just one in a long history of decisions that favored corporate interests.
Seventh US Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett speaks (...)
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