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The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the largest socialist group in the United States, will hold its biennial national convention during the first week of August, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the convention will be a virtual Zoom event. At the center of the convention will be (...)
A year ago, 15 million people nationally participated in the Black Lives Matter protests against police racism and violence. Out of that movement came the demand to “defund the police,” variously interpreted from abolish police forces to redistribute police funds to other agencies. At the same (...)
Here we are again: DSA convention time. As I did in 2019, I’ll go through the basics of the convention and then give an overview of the proposals and items for consideration.
Every two years, the Democratic Socialists of America convene for a national convention. The convention will elect a new (...)
Mutual aid has strengthened relationships and expanded our movement. Socialists should embrace mutual aid efforts as we fight for a society rooted in solidarity.
Much of the discussion and debate about mutual aid occurring among socialists looks at mutual aid in a very narrow way. It is argued (...)
New Politics editor’s note: Last month, grassroots Indigenous and youth-led movements helped the ecosocialist Indigenous candidate Yaku Pérez and his Pachakutik party make surprising gains in Ecuador’s election. Pérez finished in 3rd place, narrowly missing the chance to participate in a runoff (...)
“We offer the following observations and suggestions to contribute to the vital discussions unfolding in various organizations and online platforms.”
JANUARY 6 CERTAINLY marked a highly original way of showing “the celebration of America’s sacred peaceful transition of presidential power,” and a (...)
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, (...)
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