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President Donald Trump has refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power no matter who wins the election . What is to be done if Trump loses the election but refuses to concede ? The purpose of this commentary is to stimulate discussion and preparation for how to overcome such a Trump coup. (...)
US Trotskyism, 1928-1965 Part I: Emergence. Left Opposition in the United States Edited by Paul Le Blanc, Bryan Palmer & Thomas Bias Chicago, Illinois: Haymarket Books, 2019, 704 pages, $36 paper.
Part II: Endurance. The Coming American Revolution Edited by Paul Le (...)
IN THE SPRING of 2020 I received the phone call from Howie Hawkins, who was seeking the Green Party nomination for president and had already received the Socialist Party’s nomination. While I was expecting only to be asked to support his candidacy, Howie asked me to be his running mate.
I (...)
August 26, 2020 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Here are notes about the here-and-now, and about the future, enhanced by discussion with friends.
Several stark realities stare us in the face. As I reflect on them in the summer of 2020, I do so from the standpoint of those in (...)
Those who hurl the insult are accused of being neoliberal by those accused of it. Who’s right?
Every generation of activist has its own accompanying insult. Leftists in the past might have been slandered as “petty bourgeois” or “revisionists”; these days, calling someone a “neoliberal” is fighting (...)
The Democratic Socialist of America (DSA), which now claims 70,000 members, will go into the November 2020 national presidential election endorsing no candidate. The last DSA Convention voted if Bernie Sanders was not the nominee, it would endorse no one. The motion, however doe not stop DSA (...)
On April 9, the day after Bernie Sanders announced he would suspend his campaign for the U.S. presidency, the newly formed Greater Lafayette Indiana chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America held its biweekly Zoom meeting. The chapter had come to life in the midst of the COVID pandemic, (...)
The handwriting is on the wall. The Sandernista/Jacobin/DSA project is now exhausted. While the USA is poised on the edge of cataclysmic economic decline against the backdrop of the most dangerous plague in a hundred years and powerful protests against killer-cops, the Sandernista left is mired (...)
A few scattered, partial thoughts on tonight’s rally in Brooklyn and the overall political moment….
1. The turn out was incredible, easily around 10,000 people on less than 24 hours notice. Very multi-racial, mostly young and lots of people with homemade signs and unaffiliated to any kind of (...)
The murder of George Floyd by police has sparked protest and outrage across the country. Emma Caterine writes how socialists can connect the movement against racist police violence to a broad socialist program through the struggle to defund the police.
Nearly six years ago in Staten Island, (...)
I agree with most of key points in Charlie Post and Ashley Smith’s important New Politics article, “Facing Reality: The Socialist Left, the Sanders Campaign and Our Future.” In the wake of Sanders’ withdrawal from the race, I agree that the left (including DSA) “needs to put most of its energy into (...)
We live what is perhaps the greatest crisis in American history, an absolutely unprecedented event: a catastrophe. And it may only have just begun.
We in America live in what resembles some medieval fairy tale. An evil and maniacal king rules the plague stricken land. The wicked lords in the (...)
Since Bernie Sanders suspended his presidential campaign, there has been a steady stream of articles assessing it, writes Joanna Misnik. They range from more mainstream progressive political analysis citing his inability to compromise and soften his message, problems within the staff, etc. to (...)
A little over a month ago, many on the new socialist left expected Bernie Sanders to win the Democratic Party nomination, defeat Donald Trump in the general election, and enact a program of social democratic reform as President of the United States.
These expectations hit the shoals of (...)
Bernie Sanders has endorsed Joe Biden, 17 million people have lost their jobs, tens of thousands more are certain to perish in the coronavirus pandemic, and no one knows if and when it will be possible to “open” the economy this summer. And even is some “slow motion” economy is possible, placing (...)
From the 2008 global financial collapse to the natural disasters caused by climate change that rocked Northern California, New Orleans, New York, and Puerto Rico, capitalism is causing devastating human crises. During each of these crises, it has been poor, working-class, and already (...)
Red Wedge (RW) was started in 2012 by a group of ISO (International Socialist Organization - US) comrades around Alexander Billet, Brit Schulte, Stella Becerril, and others. From the beginning there was a commitment to, tension and dialectic between RW’s desire to play a modest role helping develop the actual production of socialist, left-wing, and working-class art, and its role reckoning on the socialist theory of art.
In terms of the latter goal, during the Socialism 2012 (...)
Trump’s assassination of Iranian General Oassim Suleimani on Iraqi soil is an escalation of his desire to destroy the Iranian regime. Since he came to office Trump has plotted to pull the U.S. government out of the nuclear agreement signed by several European countries and Iran. Following that (...)
President Donald Trump has virtually declared war on Iran with the assassination of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force, in an airstrike near Baghdad International Airport.
The assassination of Suleimani will very likely lead to war, though it is unclear how such a war (...)
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) emphatically opposes a U.S. war with Iran. In light of the U.S.’s act of war against Iran, putting the two nations close to the brink of war, DSA calls on all members and chapters to mobilize against yet another U.S. war in the Middle East.
On January 2, (...)
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