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Mississippi Congressperson Bennie Thompson filed a federal lawsuit on January 16, accusing former United States president Donald Trump, Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani and white supremacist outfits the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers of conspiring to incite the violent riot at the US Capitol on January (...)
The Senate voted 57 to 43 to find former president Donald J. Trump guilty of incitement of the insurrection at the Capitol building January 6. The vote, however, was not enough to convict Trump of his crime. The Constitution states that a two-third Senate majority is required to convict. (...)
President Joseph Biden, in office for less than a month, continued to move ahead with his plan to solve the American health and economic crises and to reassert U.S. global dominance. As he pushes ahead with his relief program, Republicans have lined up behind Trump, whose impeachment trial in (...)
The most important aspect of the January 6 march on the Capitol building, where both the House of Representatives and the Senate meet and where the Congress people have their offices, and the subsequent violent occupation of the building, was its open display of white supremacy.
It was (...)
Joe Biden has issued a raft of executive orders that are surprisingly progressive. But we know who to thank: the organized left, which has helped transform US politics.
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Joe Biden, to put it mildly, is an unlikely standard-bearer for a transformative policy agenda. He is (...)
The question answers itself. African Americans would have been arrested at their homes, and if they made it to the Capitol would have been met by armed police and National Guard units. Blood would have flowed on the streets even without violence from the protesters.
Everyone knows this truth — (...)
As the country awaits the inauguration of President Joseph Biden on January 20, Washington, D.C. has been turned into a fortress, protected by tens of thousands of police, National Guard, and Army Reserve troops, streets blocked by tall fences, and check-points.
All of this is the result of (...)
This Republican party traffics in conspiracy and thuggery – the new president must be bold on healthcare, equality and more.
I keep hearing that Joe Biden will govern from the “center”. He has no choice, they say, because he will have razor-thin majorities in Congress and the Republican party has (...)
In the wake of the deadly riot in Washington, DC, and with the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden just days away, Ben Hillier spoke to Mike Davis, author of Prisoners of the American Dream and Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx’s Lost Theory, about the crises and transformations of US politics. (...)
Law enforcement responses to more than 13,000 protests show a clear disparity in responses, new statistics show
Police in the United States are three times more likely to use force against leftwing protesters than rightwing protesters, according to new data from a nonprofit that monitors (...)
Decaying Institutions, Rightwing Insurrection, and the Need for a Mass Movement.
On January 6, 2020, radical right-wing militants stormed the powerhouse of market capitalism’s world leader. This not only puts to rest arguments regarding American exceptionalism, but adds to events that signal (...)
The mayhem showed the party is splitting up but also lifted the curse of Trump from the careers of rightwing young lion
This piece is updated from when it originally appeared on NLR Sidecar .
Wednesday’s invasion of our “temple of democracy” constituted an “insurrection” only in the sense of dark (...)
As the largest and most organized force on the U.S left, DSA has a crucial role to play in how the broader left interprets and responds to the storming of the US Capitol. As socialists, we are opposed to everything that happened in Washington Wednesday because it was an attempt by racist, right (...)
Phil Hearse deepens the analysis of the fascist riot in Washington earlier this week.
In the immediate aftermath of Trump’s electoral defeat, one leading Lexiter took to Facebook to have a condescending swipe at the authors of Creeping Fascism – without naming them. The creeping fascism thesis, (...)
The riot at the Capitol on Wednesday was a symptom of right-wing weakness, not power. The real danger isn’t a MAGA coup, but a restoration of the neoliberal status quo that produced the nightmare of Trump and his minions.
The attack on the Capitol Building in Washington, DC on Wednesday by a (...)
JANUARY 7, 2021 — Much will be heard in coming weeks about the “strength and resilience of America’s democratic Constitutional institutions” in the face of the defeated president’s insistence on overturning the November election, and an attempted “insurrection” incited by Donald Trump. It’s (...)
The storming of the U.S. Capitol by an armed mob, incited by the disgruntled U.S. president, was an unprecedented incident that has rocked the political landscape in this country and abroad.
“The world is watching!” President-elect Biden warned. And indeed it was. Venezuela’s government expressed (...)
The drama of the U.S. presidential elections held on November 3, continued on January 6 with the forced and violent entry into the parliament buildings by pro-Trump mobs. Hundreds of pro-Trump protesters lined the corridors and offices of elected officials for several hours. Some brandished US (...)
At noon on January 6, Donald Trump rallied some 10,000 or 20,000 supporters, telling them to “walk down to the Capitol. And we are going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.” Trump’s lawyer Rudy Guiliani incited the crowd to settle the election through a “trial by combat” and (...)
An updated version of this article, from the Guardian, has been posted on ESSF (article 56396), United States: With the Capitol riot the Trumpists have become a de facto third party.]
Yesterday’s ‘sacrileges’ in our temple of democracy – oh, poor defiled city on the hill, etc. – constituted an (...)
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