Place: North America

I was born in 1955 in the segregated state of Alabama where the oppressive conditions of segregation meant that my only escape was to “travel in thought” which could only be found in books.

Here is my problem with the film.  While enjoyable, it is not a great film.

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While portraying himself as a peanut-farming populist, Carter delivered the goods for Wall Street.

These are just symptoms of the decline of the Democratic party as the supposed party representing the working class and social progress.

Trump’s brand of governance inevitably culminates in chaos and accelerates the tendency toward crisis that is already built into capitalism, accelerating as the profit system confronts its growing contradictions.

This article analyzes the vote breakdown, the pundits’ views, argues that Trump is a fascist and offers perspectives for the needed anti-fascist

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.

Is the shock about this film that a civil war could happen in the modern US, the “exceptional” USA? Time to wake up, America. The film is not about a civil war, per se, as much as it is about war photographers

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.

The significance of the Retiree Advocate victory and the way forward for progressive teacher unionism

Questions and answers on the coming U.S. election

It speaks volumes that the Teamsters have gone in full scale retreat from this early opposition to fascism.

The threat of rising fascism in France, Germany, Britain, and the USA

One has to ask if West’s campaign will advance the progressive movements that he claims to speak for.

Wayne Price reviews Rachel Maddow’s book on US fascism, which lacks a critical perspective on capitalist anti-communism as the cause of fascism.

Daniel Johnson analyzes struggles over historical narratives in the US, and calls for renewal of history from below, against the right-wing censorship.

Fighting antisemitism through solidarity doesn’t just create safety for Jews and all people; it allows us to directly confront the conspiratory core of contemporary fascist and rightwing arguments while building resilient antifascist and left movements.