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Call it a voter-suppression effort, ex post facto.
The attempt to remove Kshama Sawant from her seat on Seattle’s City Council through a recall petition is a blatant attack on the democratic rights of constituents — and on the emergence of a new socialist left as a current in American politics. (...)
Recently, ten local Black Lives Matter (BLM) chapters (#BLM10) published a statement calling for greater accountability, transparency, and more democratic decision-making processes within the BLM national structure and leadership held by the Black Lives Matter Global Network (BLMGN) and its (...)
The defeat of Donald Trump came as a deliverance to millions of Americans after four years of political hell. It was greeted by mass spontaneous outbursts of joy and relief. Ridding ourselves of a uniquely malicious and bizarre president is reason to celebrate, but I argue that it is misleading (...)
New York representative denies Movement for Black Lives and Green New Deal cost seats.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has criticised the Democratic party for incompetence in a no-holds-barred, post-election interview with the New York Times , warning that if the Biden administration does not put (...)
In 2015, in the UK, Ed Miliband (Labour candidate) lost in a General Election to David Cameron (Conservative). Miliband’s politics were a form of rehashed centrism with the odd slightly more radical policy thrown in but he was very much a candidate of the establishment (in as much as he was (...)
* Yes, I know that the song says “may” but I think we are well and truly screwed … but I do think that love, romance and dancing will certainly make us feel better, otoh, we may need to do a bit more …
Anti*Capitalist Resistance Supporter Susan Pashkoff writing in the Daily Kos.
If the difference (...)
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. (...)
We reproduce below the call “Open Letter: Dump Trump, Then Battle Biden,” published in Common Dreams (dated September 23, 2020) and signed by 55 progressives, including two members of New Politics board and the call “Don’t Support Biden, Even Against Trump” published by five other members of New (...)
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 (...)
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