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The question answers itself. African Americans would have been arrested at their homes, and if they made it to the Capitol would have been met by armed police and National Guard units. Blood would have flowed on the streets even without violence from the protesters.
Everyone knows this truth — (...)
As the country awaits the inauguration of President Joseph Biden on January 20, Washington, D.C. has been turned into a fortress, protected by tens of thousands of police, National Guard, and Army Reserve troops, streets blocked by tall fences, and check-points.
All of this is the result of (...)
This Republican party traffics in conspiracy and thuggery – the new president must be bold on healthcare, equality and more.
I keep hearing that Joe Biden will govern from the “center”. He has no choice, they say, because he will have razor-thin majorities in Congress and the Republican party has (...)
Law enforcement responses to more than 13,000 protests show a clear disparity in responses, new statistics show
Police in the United States are three times more likely to use force against leftwing protesters than rightwing protesters, according to new data from a nonprofit that monitors (...)
Decaying Institutions, Rightwing Insurrection, and the Need for a Mass Movement.
On January 6, 2020, radical right-wing militants stormed the powerhouse of market capitalism’s world leader. This not only puts to rest arguments regarding American exceptionalism, but adds to events that signal (...)
The mayhem showed the party is splitting up but also lifted the curse of Trump from the careers of rightwing young lion
This piece is updated from when it originally appeared on NLR Sidecar .
Wednesday’s invasion of our “temple of democracy” constituted an “insurrection” only in the sense of dark (...)
As the largest and most organized force on the U.S left, DSA has a crucial role to play in how the broader left interprets and responds to the storming of the US Capitol. As socialists, we are opposed to everything that happened in Washington Wednesday because it was an attempt by racist, right (...)
Phil Hearse deepens the analysis of the fascist riot in Washington earlier this week.
In the immediate aftermath of Trump’s electoral defeat, one leading Lexiter took to Facebook to have a condescending swipe at the authors of Creeping Fascism – without naming them. The creeping fascism thesis, (...)
The riot at the Capitol on Wednesday was a symptom of right-wing weakness, not power. The real danger isn’t a MAGA coup, but a restoration of the neoliberal status quo that produced the nightmare of Trump and his minions.
The attack on the Capitol Building in Washington, DC on Wednesday by a (...)
JANUARY 7, 2021 — Much will be heard in coming weeks about the “strength and resilience of America’s democratic Constitutional institutions” in the face of the defeated president’s insistence on overturning the November election, and an attempted “insurrection” incited by Donald Trump. It’s (...)
The storming of the U.S. Capitol by an armed mob, incited by the disgruntled U.S. president, was an unprecedented incident that has rocked the political landscape in this country and abroad.
“The world is watching!” President-elect Biden warned. And indeed it was. Venezuela’s government expressed (...)
The drama of the U.S. presidential elections held on November 3, continued on January 6 with the forced and violent entry into the parliament buildings by pro-Trump mobs. Hundreds of pro-Trump protesters lined the corridors and offices of elected officials for several hours. Some brandished US (...)
At noon on January 6, Donald Trump rallied some 10,000 or 20,000 supporters, telling them to “walk down to the Capitol. And we are going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.” Trump’s lawyer Rudy Guiliani incited the crowd to settle the election through a “trial by combat” and (...)
An updated version of this article, from the Guardian, has been posted on ESSF (article 56396), United States: With the Capitol riot the Trumpists have become a de facto third party.]
Yesterday’s ‘sacrileges’ in our temple of democracy – oh, poor defiled city on the hill, etc. – constituted an (...)
The right-wing extremists’ storming of the US Congress did not happen suddenly or spontaneously. It was not just the result of Donald Trump’s long campaign of electoral theft and repeated blackmail attempts to overturn the election result. The agitation and mobilization to Washington in recent (...)
1. What happened. Trump incited a mob of far right and fascist goons to sack the capitol building in DC. This was planned for several weeks. The protest drew several thousand if not over ten thousand and was coordinated with actions in several state capitals throughout the country numbering (...)
The far-right mob that took over the Capitol today never would have gotten past the front door if the federal police hadn’t allowed them to storm in. The simple fact is that left-wing protesters get treated with brutality, while right-wing protesters get coddled.
Let’s get one thing out of the (...)
Donald Trump is gone. But the conditions that gave rise to his brand of noxious politics aren’t going away anytime soon.
Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. But he generated a Trumpist movement that is likely to survive him. During his four years in power, Donald Trump introduced a new way of (...)
The electoral college will confirm Joe Biden’s victory on Monday but Donald Trump’s fact-phobic hold on the Republican party holds firm.
Nearly four decades after the publication of A Very British Coup, a popular novel by member of parliament Chris Mullin, America is in the throes of a very (...)
Trump will likely reject the Electoral College’s authority when it meets and votes on December 14 to confirm the election result.
After being labeled “cowards”, 75 Republican state legislators from Pennsylvania “disavowed their own election“ and called on Congress to reject the state’s electors for (...)
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