Author: Dan La Botz
DAN LA BOTZ is a member of the editorial board of New Politics. Learn more about him and his writings at danlabotzwritings.com
Eighty-one years ago this week, on August 6 and August 9, United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, the first on Hiroshima and the second on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 200,000 human beings and poisoning and sickening many others.
Dan La Botz analyzes the latest development of Trump’s authoritarian regime and prospects for resistance in the United States.
With this announcement, Ortega has put the last nail in the coffin of the revolution, the final hammer blow in a long process.
I have written this essay because I have been irked by the media’s discussion of whether or not our country has fulfilled the ideals of its founding fathers. So, I wished to clarify just what their ideals were.
Protests in support of a hunger and labor strike by immigrant inmates at Delaney Hall, a detention center in Newark, New Jersey have been militant. There have been conflicts between protestors and various police agencies. Dozens have been arrested. Activists
There seems to be nothing at present to stop Trump from terminating the Cuban Communist government.
We have all been horrified to learn of Cesar Chavez’s sexual assaults and rape of young girls and women.
DSA should enter into a coalition with the groups like Indivisible that have organized the No Kings protests, most of whom are liberal democrats and independents, and many of whom are progressive activists, while some are democratic socialists.
President Donald Trump promised to be the “president of peace” and to avoid foreign wars of regime change such as America’s “endless wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and two-time candidate for president, died on February 17, 2026 at the age of 84.
An obituary for Ernest Haberkern, a long-time revolutionary socialist militant, a founding member of the Independent Socialist Club and a close comrade of Hal Draper.
Most of the convicts were transported for petty property crimes, but a significant minority of them were political dissidents and industrial activists.
Resistance to President Donald Trump is growing, taking the form of massive, peaceful protest marches, small local rebellions against ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), Democratic Party election victories, and a gradually changing public opinion. One could even talk about a
The events in Minneapolis confirm that we now live in the grip, the death grip, of an authoritarian government, but also that there is a powerful, popular resistance. We are in a struggle for justice, for democracy, and for our lives. And that struggle goes on, most intensely in Minneapolis, but also everywhere else in the country. And the end is not in sight.
Millions of Americans are deeply saddened and increasingly angry about the murder of a mother of three by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and thousands are protesting in hundreds of cities and towns around the country.
The six Democrats by making their video have challenged Trump and they have done a great service to our country, to those in the military, and to those at home or abroad who might be victims. This too forms part of the growing, complex resistance movement.
But this year there will be those inside and outside the convention hall challenging TDU’s direction and arguing that it has abandoned its ideal. At the center of the controversy is TDU’s support for Teamster president Sean O’Brien who is allied with President Donald Trump.
Millions of people in 2,600 cities in all 50 of the United States participated in the second round of “No Kings” protests against President Donald Trump’s increasingly authoritarian and inhumane government.
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