With only weeks to go until the United States presidential election, and with the threat of a second Donald Trump presidency, pro-Palestine activist and former Democratic Party organiser Sravya explains why she is undecided about whether to vote for Kamala Harris.
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Malik Miah and Barry Sheppard look behind the hype around Kamala Harris' presidential nomination in the United States.
The week Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris pledged to continue to support Israel, thousands continued to protest Labor's support for the genocide in Gaza. Isaac Nellist 谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.听
Laura Wadlin is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and a leading member of its Bread and Roses caucus. She spoke to 91自拍论坛鈥檚 Susan Price about the challenges in building a political alternative.
The Trial of the Chicago Seven聽retells the story of the 1969 show trial of seven high-profile activists,聽while stripping聽away much of the period's radicalism in the process, writes Alex Salmon.
91自拍论坛鈥檚 Alex Bainbridge speaks to Isaac Silver, a Democratic Socialists of America聽member in Chicago involved in Bernie Sanders鈥 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Bernie Sanders' campaign slogan 鈥淣ot me, us鈥 is a powerful differentiator from the rest of the Democratic establishment, for whom returning to the status quo by simply deposing Trump is enough, writes Leo Crnogorcevic.
Overcoming a聽flood of corporate money聽and New York鈥檚 powerful establishment machine, 28-year-old democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez toppled Democratic Representative Joe Crowley in New York鈥檚 14th congressional district on June 26 with聽tireless grassroots organising聽and an ambitious progressive agenda of Medicare for All, housing as a human right, and聽abolishing the hated Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. The result is being hailed as the biggest political upset of 2018.
In response to huge public outcry against his policy of forcibly separating children from immigrant parents seeking asylum, United States President Donald Trump issued an executive order on July 20 to halt the separations.
A victory? Not so fast, writes Barry Sheppard from San Francisco.
An estimated 500,000 people, largely youth, demonstrated in Washington, DC on March 24 against the continued mass shootings at schools across the country. 聽Hundreds of thousands more mobilised in about 800 cities and towns.
The spark that lit the pent-up tinder of anger against school shootings 鈥 of which there have been 18 since January 鈥 was the response to the February 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Florida.
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.
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.
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