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, by LA BOTZ Dan
Former president Donald Trump and Vice-president Kamala Harris continue to campaign in a neck-and-neck race, both holding large rallies in swing states in an attempt to pull ahead. Trump continues his racist rants against immigrants, whom he calls “stone-cold killers,” and his vicious insults (…)
, by BADAWI Samer
In Ohio and around the U.S., pro-Palestine activists alienated by the presidential race are redoubling their efforts in local elections.
In Ohio, a state that has voted for Donald Trump in the last two U.S. presidential elections, a staunchly pro-Palestinian congressional candidate may seem (…)
, par MIAH Malik, SHEPPARD Barry
The Democratic Party convention closed on August 22 in Chicago. The neoliberal ruling class party nominated its first Black/South Asian woman for president, Kamala Devi Harris, the daughter of an immigrant mother from India and immigrant father from Jamaica.
Not since 2008 when the first (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
We know racism stands at the center of Donald Trump’s politics, but one recent absurd story shows just how dangerous it is. And it reveals just how profoundly sick is our society, that he still has the support of half of the electorate.
During the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and (…)
, 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 DUTRA Israel, ROBAINA Roberto
The fires and air pollution across the country demonstrate the insufficiency of government measures and demand popular mobilization for the climate emergency
The worst week in the country’s climate history. Wildfires, extremely high temperatures, terrible air quality. As Pedro Serrano pointed (…)
, par LE BLANC Paul
Two realities frame this talk. One is that I have recently written a book entitled Lenin : Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution. The other is that the 2024 Presidential election in the United States, however it goes, inevitably advances an intense political crisis whose outcome is by no (…)
It would have been near impossible for a gay man or a lesbian woman born in 1960s Cuba to have imagined parading down Havana’s main avenue shouting slogans as part of the LGBTIQ+ community. But beginning in 2008, with the annual celebration of Cuba’s pride march—which is also known as La (…)
, by JONHSON Gene
SEATTLE (AP) — For her 26th birthday in July, human rights activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi gathered friends for a bonfire at one of her favorite places, a sandy beach in Seattle where green-and-white ferries cruise across the dark, flat water and osprey fish overhead.
On Wednesday night, hundreds (…)
, 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 (…)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Vice-President Kamala Harris, now the Democratic nominee of an enthusiastic party, has had phenomenal initial success. Since entering the race on July 21, she and her running mate Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, have raised $540 million, organized Zoom calls involving hundreds of thousands of (…)
, by FUENTES Federico, ITURRIZA LOPEZ Reinaldo Antonio
Writer, activist, sociologist and director of the Centre for Studies for Socialist Democracy Reinaldo Antonio Iturriza López discusses the competing — and inadequate — narratives surrounding Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election in this interview conducted by Federico Fuentes for LINKS (…)
, 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 LEVY Gideon
Only a few hours separated Antony Blinken and Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting in Jerusalem and the moving, impressive speech by the U.S. president at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. But the distance between Joe Biden’s sublime remarks and the capitulation of his secretary of state is (…)
, by HETLAND Gabriel
“If the left is to counter [the right wing] narrative, and defend the real gains of Chavismo during the 2000s and 2010s, it must give up on consoling fantasies and take a clear-eyed look at the country’s degeneration. That means resisting apologism for Maduro.”
Venezuelan President Nicolás (…)
, par JACOBS Nicholas
It takes more than camo hats, hot dish and a rural-friendly image to get the votes of America’s rural residents.
The selection of Tim Walz as Kamala Harris’ running mate has sparked a wave of commentary suggesting that simply by elevating a former small-town football coach to the candidacy for (…)
, par SUMMERS Ryan
A growing number of states are passing laws that call scientific theories into question.
Current efforts to stifle scientific theories in school are reminiscent of the attacks on the teaching of the theory of evolution. iStock / Getty Images Plus
Scientific theory has had a rough time in (…)
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