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, by LA BOTZ Dan
Cornel West announced in early June that he was running for president of the United States as the candidate for the People’s Party and then as aspiring to be candidate of the Green Party. This series of articles explores the experience of Black political candidates for the nation’s highest (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Cornel West announced in early June [2023] that he was running for president of the United States as the candidate for the People’s Party and then as aspiring to be candidate of the Green Party. In Part 1 of this article, we looked at the reaction of the left, with comments from DSA and Green (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Cornel West announced in early June that he was running for president of the United States as the candidate for the People’s Party and then as aspiring to be candidate of the Green Party. This series of articles explores the experience of Black political candidates. In Part 1 of this article, (...)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is about to make the terrible mistake of breaking with over 100 years of solidarity with colonial peoples in their struggles against imperialism and with solidarity with the oppressed in their fight for democracy.
Since 2014, Russia has waged a war of (...)
, by SHEPPARD Barry
This article is written in collaboration with Roland Sheppard, who was an eyewitness in the auditorium, the Audubon Ballroom, where Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965, and has closely followed the case and written and spoken about it since.
After breaking with the Nation of (...)
, by LEE Eric
While Republican politicians are queuing up to take on Donald Trump for the party’s nomination next year, there’s hardly anything going on in the other camp. Unless he falls ill or changes his mind, Joe Biden will undoubtedly be the Democratic Party candidate. Only three people with any name (...)
, by HAWKINs Howie
Like much of the ideological left and many peace groups, the Green Party of the United States is divided over how to respond to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In early October 2022, the Green National Committee adopted a resolution submitted by the Green Party Peace Action Committee (...)
, by REIMANN John, ZUUR Cheryl
Over the next week, members of the Democratic Socialists of America have an opportunity to step up and defend Ukraine.
Over the next week, until June 28, members of the Democratic Socialists of America have a vital opportunity to show solidarity with Ukraine, defend internationalism, and (...)
, by FUENTES Federico
Marxist economist Michael A Lebowitz passed away at home on April 19. With his death, the international left has lost one of its most insightful and original thinkers, whose contributions to reviving Karl Marx’s vision of socialism are essential reading for activists.
Lebowitz built on his (...)
, by COOKE Shamus
Bernie Sanders’ newest book, “It’s OK to be Angry About Capitalism,” was clearly written by Sanders, whose voice reverberates loudly in print from beginning to end. The curious title led many to speculate about the book’s content.
Many readers likely hoped it would include a tell-all about (...)
, by BURLEY Shane
Fascist activists are seeking to exploit a fracture on the left over the war in Ukraine to grow their movement.
The idea of a political coalition that mixes self-identified communists with neo-Nazis may seem implausible at first. However, a February 19 rally in Washington, D.C., branded as (...)
, by ELLSBERG Daniel
Daniel Ellsberg, a giant of American history for leaking the Pentagon Papers, wrote the following email to friends on Wednesday, including Consortium News, and has today decided to make it public.
Daniel Ellsberg. (Free Getty embed, Paul J. RIchards)
Dear friends and supporters,
I have (...)
, by HAWKINs Howie, REIMAN John
Oaklandsocialist interviews Green Party candidate of president in 2020 and long time activist, Howie Hawkins. Full transcript below video.
John Reiman: So we’re talking here with Howie Hawkins, who’s a prominent member of the Green Party and a former member of the Teamsters. So would you (...)
, by MOORE Nate
Nate Moore explains why U.S. based socialists should not be opposing arms to Ukraine despite the inter-imperialist dynamics unleashed by the Russian invasion.
What position should socialists take regarding U.S./NATO arms to Ukraine? Recently, Left Voice has engaged in a debate with other (...)
, by CAMPBELL Duncan
Two and a half years ago, the Columbia Journalism Review refused to publish Duncan Campbell’s investigation into The Nation magazine and its apparent support for Vladimir Putin. It is published here in full
[(In 2018, Duncan Campbell was commissioned by the “voice of journalism” and (...)
, by FUENTES Federico, HAWKINs Howie
Howie Hawkins is a retired Teamsters union warehouse worker, the US Green Party 2020 presidential candidate and an ecosocialist. Together with a range of other leftists, socialists, unionists and academics, he recently helped set up the Ukraine Solidarity Network (US). Hawkins spoke to (...)
, by Oakland Socialist
Bill Fletcher, Jr. (Ukraine Solidarity Network) debated Medea Benjamin (Code Pink) last Sunday (Jan. 29) on the issue of Ukraine. The debate helped clarify some points, and raised some previously less clear issues.
Benjamin
Benjamin started off by saying how much she respected Bill (...)
, by SONNENBERG Martha
“…new forces and new passions spring up in the bosom of society; but the old social organization fetters them and keeps them down.” Karl Marx
The recent shooting at a LGBTQ bar in Colorado once again brought to light the hate crimes that the LGBTQ community endures. Homophobia is certainly (...)
, by REIMANN John
The world crisis revolving around the war in Ukraine has a deep influence in US politics. This makes understanding that war all the more important.
In January, the fascist-linked Republican Party will take power in the US House of Representatives. They will use this power to try to stop US (...)
, by FIDLER Richard
The left – in Canada and internationally – has not responded in a coherent way to Russia’s assault on Ukraine.
The Social-Democratic left, such as Canada’s NDP, is sympathetic to Ukraine’s resistance but largely fails to dissociate itself from the government’s political support for the (...)
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