Protest is telling the truth in public. Sometimes protest is telling the truth to a public that isn’t ready to hear it. Protest is meant to build a community, and to force a response.
I learned hope the hard way. It was a hot day in St Louis county near Ferguson, Missouri in September 2014, and (...)
The most important finding of the long Mueller investigation of Trump, that there was no collusion with the Russians to fix the 2016 election so that Trump would win, came as a shock to most liberals, progressives and even many socialists.
I’ve seen only one figure in the mass media who faces (...)
Two young Muslim women were elected to the House of Representatives in the 2018 election. Ilhan Omar is Black, and a refugee from war-devastated Somalia. Rashida Tlaib is of Palestinian descent, and has family living under Israeli oppression back home.
Both are outspoken supporters of the (...)
Capitalist-party politics in the United States remains in turmoil. There are investigations into Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia to steal the 2016 elections, as well as into his corrupt business practices on one side, and Trump’s mobilization of his white racist base on the other. (...)
Donald Trump’s New Cold War with Beijing has caught Chinese foreign students at American universities in its crosshairs. His administration has tightened restrictions on their visas, accused them of spying for the Chinese state and its high tech giants, and in the process whipped up a climate of (...)
President Trump declared a “national emergency” to stop what he calls an “invasion” of drugs, sex traffickers, murderers and other criminals at the border with Mexico by building a wall between both countries.
Trump says he will use the national emergency to allocate over $8 billion to begin to (...)
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 (...)
On October 24, a white man in Jefferson, Kentucky, shot and killed two African Americans at a grocery store. Gregory Bush was seen trying unsuccessfully to break down the doors to a predominately Black church before he turned his attention to the store and opened fire.
After the the killings (...)
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 (...)
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