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, by SMITH Ashley
Ashley Smith responds to Max Elbaum’s overheated polemic on the question of strategy for socialists in the 2024 election. Smith argues that Elbaum’s “Block and Build” strategy is nothing new and has proven a disastrous failure over decades. For socialists to devote our resources to campaigning (…)
, by CONNER Cliff
THIS OPINION PIECE by Cliff Conner is an additional contribution to the discussion in ATC 232, where we have published three statements by Dan La Botz, Howie Hawkins, and Kit Wainer on the strategic choices facing the progressive and socialist left in the November presidential election. We will (…)
, par Against the Current
FACING THE HIDEOUS specter of a second Trump presidency, the operational leadership of the Democratic Party — that is, the party mega-donors — ultimately took the reins and pushed aside its all-too-visibly declining incumbent standard-bearer. From the voting base on July 21 came the instant (…)
, by HAWKINS Howie
AS SOCIALISTS, HOW should we approach the 2024 presidential election? The two major parties, ideologically capitalist to their cores, present us with a choice between a neoliberal corporate militarist and a neofascist criminal maniac.
As I write this (July 7), Democratic leaders and donors (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
WITH VICE-PRESIDENT Kamala Harris now the Democratic Party candidate, there was first a sigh of relief and then a burst of enthusiasm among Democrats. Many Democrats now say, “we just might be able to win.”
After President Joe Biden’s disastrous performance in his first debate with former (…)
, by WAINER Kit Adam
AS VOTERS, REVOLUTIONARY socialists will face the same choice as all other voters in the United States this November: which candidate is the lesser evil, which one represents the greatest threat?
Socialists, however, are not mere atomized voters. We are trying to popularize a critique of (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
This is the latest in a series of articles on Black candidates for President or Vice-President of the United States. Links to all of the articles in the series can be found at thi end of this one. – DL
Dr. Cornel West, one of America’s most distinguished Black intellectuals, announced in June (…)
, by HAWKINS Howie
This article was written for an internal debate in Solidarity: A Socialist, Feminist, Anti-Racist Organization. – Eds.
As socialists, how should we approach the 2024 presidential election? The two major parties, ideologically capitalist to their cores, present us with a choice between a (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
I am a member of Solidarity: A Socialist, Feminist, Anti-Racist Organization. A month ago, we had a debate in Solidarity on the question of the U.S. presidential election in which I argued the need to vote for Biden in order to defeat Trump. I was asked to provide a written version of my (…)
, by AFARY Frieda
If the current crisis within the Democratic Party does lead to Biden’s withdrawal from the race and a period of open debate and discussion to pick a viable presidential and vice-presidential team of candidates at the Democratic National Convention, that might help regenerate the democratic (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Jamal Bowman, one of a handful of socialists in the U.S. Congress, is fighting for his political life under attack from the Zionist lobby because of his criticism of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. His challenger in the Democratic Party primary election that will take place on June 25 is George (…)
, by Dignity Memorial
IN THE CARE OF Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary
Norma Barzman lived an amazing 103 years across the twentieth century and beyond. Her parents Samuel and Goldie Levor welcomed her into life on September 15, 1920 in New York City, ten years after her sister Muriel. (…)
, par BARZMAN John
Text of give-away at Memorial Service in Los Angeles, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2023
Her parents Samuel and Goldie Levor welcomed her into life on September 15, 1920 in New York City, ten years after her sister Muriel. She sometimes regretted that she was expected to replace Linda, another (…)
, by McNALLY David, Tempest
The Tempest Collective Editorial Board recently sat down with David McNally to discuss current geopolitical dynamics, economic fault lines, and labor struggles—and perspectives for socialists in 2024. This is the first part of a two-part interview.
David McNally specializes in the history and (…)
, par BUHLE Paul
A LARGE STORY in American culture has now drawn to a chronological end with the death of sometime screenwriter Norma Barzman, age 103.
Her actual screen credits were few, in part because she left Hollywood for Paris with her better-known husband, Ben Barzman, as McCarthyism made further film (…)
, by RENTON David
The U.S. presidential elections in November pose the risk of a Trump victory. His opponents warn that Trump is a fascist and demand that the Left stand down our independent voices and subordinate everything to the call to resist him. David Renton argues the answer is not to minimize the risk (…)
, by JOYCE Kathryn, SHARLET Jeff
What do we make of former friends who fell down the rabbit hole of the Right?
How to name the rude currents eroding the Left, those which have claimed the hearts, minds and Substacks of so many former friends and fellow travelers? There are the journalist-provocateurs and the readers who have (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan, SHALOM Stephen R.
Dan La Botz and Stephen R. Shalom respond critically to a recent article by Jonah Ben Avraham.
In the midst of Israel’s horrific slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, it would seem ill-timed to engage in debate with other members of the pro-Palestinian Left. But when a writer chooses to denounce (…)
Palestinians, as well as some left-wing Jews, are being suspended from studies, fired from jobs, or arrested at night — all because of social media posts.
We are watching a genocide unfold in real time. As professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies Raz Segal argues, what Israel has unleashed (…)
, par LA BOTZ Dan
Yesterday, President Biden spoke to the United States to justify sending more aid to Israel. The amount he is requesting from Congress is estimated at $105 billion. This includes money to aid Israel in its current war on Gaza and the Palestinians living there, a war based on a siege denying the (…)
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