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
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.
Now I’m just back from a visit, my first in several years, seeing and talking with old friends of various views, left, right, and center.
But here it is, August again. I will turn 81 in a few days and so will my age-mate the atomic bomb. You and I will continue, as we know, to live in the shadow of the bomb until we create a movement to rid ourselves of it.
We are being pushed and we are sliding toward an authoritarian state. We now live in a country where many democratic institutions, including the courts, have been seriously weakened, civil society organizations have been deeply compromised, and our civil liberties
Mamdani ran on a campaign platform that called for a rent freeze, for free buses, and free childcare, all to be paid for by taxing rich New Yorkers and corporations, and he criticized Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
CA Gov. Gavin Newsome, a Democrat, said of Trump’s action, “That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tension. This is the wrong mission and will erode public trust.” He said the Trump administration was deranged.
Since 1987 Jorge has lived in the United States and for more than a dozen years, he has worked for Arise in Chicago as a strategic campaign organizer with immigrant workers.
Tens of thousands marched in New York City on April 5 as part of the national “Hands Off” demonstration against President Donald Trump. Few unions turned out in New York City, but the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), the union of
Musk’s take-over is tantamount to a coup, and far more effective, serious, and dangerous than the insurrection that Trump organized on January 6, 2021.
In his first two week in office, President Donald Trump has violated the Constitution and broken the law to carry out measures that threaten millions working peoples’ jobs and the health, education, and social welfare programs of the elderly, children and the poor.
On his return to the presidency on January 20, Donald Trump rescinded his predecessor Joe Biden’s short-lived removal of Cuba from the State Sponsor of Terrorism (SSOT) designation. The SSOT designation will further isolate Cuba diplomatically and economically.
Biden only removed
Biden only removed
The election poses several related dangers, from a Trump victory that could end American democracy to a close election that could lead to violent protests and perhaps another coup attempt, and then too the danger that if Harris wins, she will be unable to keep the US out of a widening Middle East war.
One has to ask if West’s campaign will advance the progressive movements that he claims to speak for.
George Edwin Taylor, the candidate.
This is the first of a series of articles about Black political candidates for the two highest offices of president and vice-president of the United States. The idea of writing this series originally begun when Cornel
This is the first of a series of articles about Black political candidates for the two highest offices of president and vice-president of the United States. The idea of writing this series originally begun when Cornel
Today, fifteen years since he ran for president, it’s hard to remember that Obama was a candidate on the left. He ended up as the bankers’ president
Dan La Botz critically examines the authoritarian and militarist legacy of López Obrador, and prospects for Claudia Sheinbaum’s presidency.
She was in many ways the ideal candidate for such a left party.,,,And disappointingly, McKinney subsequently devolved into a trafficker in conspiracy theories and antisemitism.
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