Category: Electoral Politics
Dan La Botz analyzes the latest development of Trump’s authoritarian regime and prospects for resistance in the United States.
The book sets out to familiarize uninitiated DSA members with the terms of political debates that are in play nearly ten years after the organization’s resurgence in 2016.
A Cepeda victory will strengthen the working class, the social movements, and the oppressed whereas a victory of the right will place the repressive apparatus of the state firmly in the hands of the forces of reaction.
I do not share the euphoria of so many progressives and socialists at the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City. I came away sobered by it. Many of the left are celebrating Mamdani’s election as signaling
Kim Moody offers a critical analysis of the Democratic Party, captured by wealthy donors and a vehicle for capitalist class interests.
A socialist Vermont state senator explains how the left must support Ukraine while also supporting Gaza and opposing militarism.
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.
This is not just any election campaign: it features low-budget TikTok videos, recycled soap opera actors—almost all of them from the 1990s—and a political narrative that offers no redemption but promises dire consequences.
The embrace of his campaign by a broad NYC Left is inextricable from the substantive social, economic, and political struggles being waged within (and beyond) New York City
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.
Why did American voters, who by substantial majorities favor progressive economic, social, and international policies, elect a plutocratic, racist, America First jingoist as President?
From an examination of election results, exit polls, and other public opinion polling, I draw three conclusions
From an examination of election results, exit polls, and other public opinion polling, I draw three conclusions
These are just symptoms of the decline of the Democratic party as the supposed party representing the working class and social progress.
I don’t think the election of Trump runs straight along the lines of White racism alone. It reflects racism, sexism and self-hate that includes Black, Brown and Women that voted for
Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. In order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here.
We can understand the institutionalisation of Trumpism as a response to three or four basic trends, including relative imperial decline, problems of ‘secular stagnation’ in the capitalist core, the rise of Chinese state-capitalism, and the energy crisis.
Should one vote for a third party candidate in a swing state as a way to punish the Democrats for their horrendous policy on Gaza?
What happens will determine the future. So far, most of the left in the United States is acting out of fear rather than recognizing the historic opportunity presented in this crisis.
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.
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