DONALD TRUMP’S WAY to “drain the swamp” is evident: Put the swamp creatures in the cabinet. But one example in particular, the appointment and confirmation of Commerce Secretary Wilbur L. Ross, Jr., shows as much about the opposition as it does about Trump.
Ross is indeed a special piece of work. (...)
TO DONALD TRUMP’S credit, he instantly produced the most immense tsunami of popular revulsion to greet any incoming occupant of the White House. From the snarling menace of his “America First” inaugural address, to his cabinet of multi-millionaire and billionaire reactionaries, to the pending (...)
On Inauguration Day, we note the considerable range of the opposition to Trump, from traditional activists to very mainstream folks. In many respects the opposition mounted was unprecedented, on a day where patriotic and jingoistic hyperbole is typically concentrated and loudly broadcast more (...)
The videotaped sucker punch that staggered the white nationalist Richard Spencer on Inauguration Day quickly inspired mockery on social media. But it echoed loudly in an escalating confrontation between extreme ends of the political spectrum.
With far-right groups edging into the mainstream (...)
To defeat Trump, we have to build democratic, multiracial, militant organizations with a foundation in solidarity.
Donald Trump has been inaugurated as the forty-fifth president of the United States. The shock and disbelief that greeted his election more than two months ago must now give way (...)
Behind the protests there must be a web of relations that extend both intersectionally and internationally to establish alliances with movements elsewhere.
It is much too early to say to what extent President Trump will enact his campaign promises as government policy and, indeed, how much he (...)
On November 8, voters in the United States narrowly elected an openly racist, misogynist and nativist candidate for president. Donald Trump succeeded in defining himself as an anti-establishment candidate who will end dynastic rule in Washington, D.C., by elites who care little for “forgotten (...)
An International Socialist Organization statement on the election and what’s next.
1. The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States is a shocking and dangerous turn of events—not only for the U.S., but for the entire world. It is a decisive shift, representing the latest failure (...)
Silvio Berlusconi’s tenure as Italian prime minister shows how not to resist an authoritarian demagogue.
Comparisons between Donald Trump and former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi abounded throughout the presidential election campaign and have only proliferated since Trump declared (...)
No one expected Donald Trump to become the Republican nominee, and his election victory is a bigger shock—but the first step is to understand why and face it squarely.
AN ENDLESS, miserable presidential campaign is over—with the most miserable result imaginable.
Several readers of Socialist (...)
We can’t move to Canada or hide under the bed. This is a moment to embrace democratic politics, not repudiate them.
We have no illusions about the impact of Donald Trump’s victory. It is a disaster. The prospect of a unified right-wing government, led by an authoritarian populist, represents a (...)
Like millions of people here and around the world, we woke up this morning dismayed and frightened that Donald Trump has been elected President. Whatever we each thought of the Democratic Party and of Hillary Clinton, none of us wanted to believe that a plurality of voters could bring (...)
The Stein/Baraka campaign calls for sustained and organized resistance to president-elect Donald Trump and the rise of right-wing extremism in the United States. They expressed their solidarity and empathy with those who are traumatized by the election results, and called for an honest and (...)
It’s That Time again in the presidential election cycle when the scolds of institutionalized liberalism are out in force to bully people into voting for the perennial corporate Democrat in order to stop the perennially worse corporate Republican. Paul Krugman. Robert Reich. Ben Jealous. Dan (...)
On August 1, a coalition of some sixty Black Lives Matter groups from around the United States issued “A Vision for Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom and Justice.”
The document is long and detailed. It is the most important Black independent political action program since the (...)
On the steamy evening of July 27 in Philadelphia a raucous audience of close to 800 gathered to discuss electoral politics and movement-building. This was day three of Socialist Convergence, organized by a coalition of left organizations to create a socialist presence during the Democratic (...)
Since the mid 1930s, self-styled progressives and many socialists have often justified supporting one of the two capitalist parties by claiming that it is the “lesser evil” to the other one – except when they have claimed their party of choice to be a “positive good.” Most often the “lesser evil” (...)
August 4. The uprising and fighting in Syria have gone on for over five years and your platform doesn’t say a word about it . Delegates to this weekend’s convention, how about adding these five sentences?
1. We stand with the Arab revolutions and uprisings for democracy that started in Tunisia (...)
The unpopularity of the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates has caused a surge of interest in the left-wing independent choice in Election 2016: Jill Stein.
AS THE 2016 general election campaign got going in earnest after the Democratic and Republican conventions, the choices for (...)
AGAINST THE CURRENT interviewed Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for president in 2016 following its convention at the end of July. The Green Party vice-presidential candidate is Ajamu Baraka.
Against the Current: How do you answer the question that the only thing that counts is beating (...)
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