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Trump, who now completely dominates the Republican Party, continues to claim that President Joseph Biden and the Democrats won in 2020 through election fraud. Election authorities of both major parties around the country have demonstrated that there was no significant voter fraud. Trump and the (...)
The right-wing cultural war in the United States is not an academic debate about race, history and freedom. It is a life and death struggle for Blacks, Latinos, Asians, indigenous peoples and transgender youth, and for women’s right to abortion and jobs.
The Republican Party has turned to a (...)
Biden’s Families Plan is the third of his economic packages. Billed at $1.8 trillion over ten years, the Families Plan complements the immediate support provides by the Rescue Plan and the long-term Jobs/infrastructure Plan.
The Families Plan concludes the sequence, but the family has been a (...)
Perhaps the most frequently discussed question lately is: Will President Joseph Biden be another Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)’s presidency, from 1933 to 1945, transformed the United States with its New Deal, a collection of social welfare programs that rewrote the nation’s (...)
With the failure of the January 6 attack on Congress to overturn the 2020 election, Trump’s final attempt to do so, many progressives and socialists thought that we were finished with Trump.
But it has become clearer that the Republican Party remains under Trump’s control. The concerted drive by (...)
JusticeLA’s activists have devoted themselves to shutting down a jail construction plan – and they aren’t ‘playing to the middle’
There was a moment in late 2016 when Los Angeles county was set to invest $2.2bn in rebuilding and revamping parts of its jail system, the largest in the world. The old (...)
Voting rights are under attack in the United States. In 43 out of 50 states, legislation seeks to limit voting rights for Black and Brown citizens.
The Republican Party is leading the attack, following on from former President Donald Trump’s big lie that last year’s presidential election was (...)
In Atlanta, Georgia on March 16 a gunman killed eight people, in three spas, six of them Asian women. Then on March 22 in Boulder, Colorado, a man with a gun killed ten people. On March 31, 2021, in Orange, California, a gunman murdered four people, one a nine-year-old boy. Since the Atlanta (...)
Much of today’s advocacy around racial justice places the onus on individual actors and the private sector. We need collective action instead
Americans are talking more and more about racism and inequality, and that should be a good thing. It’s not just policing and incarceration – black (...)
Mississippi Congressperson Bennie Thompson filed a federal lawsuit on January 16, accusing former United States president Donald Trump, Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani and white supremacist outfits the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers of conspiring to incite the violent riot at the US Capitol on January (...)
The Senate voted 57 to 43 to find former president Donald J. Trump guilty of incitement of the insurrection at the Capitol building January 6. The vote, however, was not enough to convict Trump of his crime. The Constitution states that a two-third Senate majority is required to convict. (...)
President Joseph Biden, in office for less than a month, continued to move ahead with his plan to solve the American health and economic crises and to reassert U.S. global dominance. As he pushes ahead with his relief program, Republicans have lined up behind Trump, whose impeachment trial in (...)
The most important aspect of the January 6 march on the Capitol building, where both the House of Representatives and the Senate meet and where the Congress people have their offices, and the subsequent violent occupation of the building, was its open display of white supremacy.
It was (...)
Joe Biden has issued a raft of executive orders that are surprisingly progressive. But we know who to thank: the organized left, which has helped transform US politics.
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Joe Biden, to put it mildly, is an unlikely standard-bearer for a transformative policy agenda. He is (...)
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 (...)
In the wake of the deadly riot in Washington, DC, and with the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden just days away, Ben Hillier spoke to Mike Davis, author of Prisoners of the American Dream and Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx’s Lost Theory, about the crises and transformations of US politics. (...)
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 (...)
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