91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Susan Price spoke to Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) activist Isaac Silver following the announcement by United States Senator, Bernie Sanders that he will contest the 2020 US Presidential race.
Bernie Sanders
Nine hours after Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders confirmed on February 20 he would challenge Donald Trump for the US Presidency the campaign had raised US$6 million from 225,000 contributors.
Populism Now! The Case for Progressive Populism
David McKnight
New South, 2018
177 pages, rrp $29.99
David McKnight鈥檚 Populism Now! catches a wave of discussion about the chances for a progressive 鈥減opulism鈥, writes Jonathan Strauss.
Also in the spray, for example, is a June Quarterly Essay piece by the Australia Institute鈥檚 Richard Denniss 鈥淒ead Right: how neoliberalism ate itself and what comes next鈥 and the previously post-whatever Chantal Mouffe鈥檚 musings on 鈥渓eft populism鈥.
Bhaskar Sunkara is editor of the US-based socialist magazine Jacobin and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, which has experienced rapid growth over the past year. 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Alex Bainbridge spoke to him about US politics under President Donald Trump and prospects for socialists.
In his September 2 article 鈥淩esponding on Sanders and reforming the Democrats鈥, Barry Sheppard fundamentally mischaracterises the position I outlined in 鈥淪ocialists and Bernie Sanders鈥. I specifically did not argue in favour of the far left in the US trying to 鈥渞eform鈥 the Democratic Party.
In his response to my August 1 (GLW #1148) piece on the strategy of US Senator Bernie Sanders, Danny Fairfax writes in GLW #1150 on why he thinks the Democratic Party can be reformed.
One error the comrade makes is his view of the primary system in the United States. He thinks it gives roughly the same chances for 鈥済rassroots movements to defeat entrenched [Democratic] party elites鈥 as the structure of the Labour Party in Britain allowed Jeremy Corbyn鈥檚 rise to the leadership. It doesn鈥檛.
Leafing through my August 1 copy of 91自拍论坛 Weekly, I thought I spotted an egregious typo. Surely, Barry Sheppard鈥檚 dispatch from San Francisco, 鈥Bernie Sanders鈥 Democratic Party strategy fatally flawed鈥 in issue 1148 had had an apostrophe inserted in the headline where there should have been a colon.
Coalition finance minister Mathias Cormann told an admiring audience at the conservative Sydney Institute on August 23 that Labor leader Bill Shorten was 鈥渃hannelling鈥 Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders.
If only...
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) held their national conference in Chicago on August 5 and 6, at a gathering that confirmed its emergence as stronger, younger and more radical group than it has ever been.
Before last year鈥檚 US presidential election, the DSA boasted between 7000-8000 members. Since then, it has ballooned to 25,000 members 鈥 mostly young and hungry for a fight.
In a New York Times op-ed in June titled 鈥淗ow Democrats Can Stop Losing鈥, Bernie Sanders slammed the Democratic Party.
鈥淚n 2016 the Democratic Party lost the presidency to possibly the least popular candidate in American history,鈥 he wrote. 鈥淚n recent years, Democrats have also lost the Senate and House to right-wing Republicans whose extremist agenda is far removed from where most Americans are politically.
鈥淪ocialism is back. Unmentioned and unused, a dead concept and suddenly there was Corbynism.鈥 That鈥檚 how announced the resurrection in 鈥淭he Death of Neoliberalism鈥 in the July 15 issue of The Saturday Paper.
The rise of Jeremy Corbyn in Britain and Bernie Sanders in the US has led many to ask where is our Corbyn or our Sanders and to question whether conditions in Australia are ripe for a similar break to the left.
Because Australia was buffered from the worst of the GFC, due mainly to the mining boom, some argue that conditions here may need to get a lot worse before people are prepared to get behind a left platform.
Let鈥檚 look at some social indicators in Australia today.
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