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.
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
The Democratic Socialists of America has聽condemned Russia鈥檚 invasion of Ukraine and expressed solidarity with anti-war protesters calling for a diplomatic resolution.
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.
Socialism. Today. was the theme of a lively day-long seminar about critical issues facing the movements for social and ecological change, hosted by the Socialist Alliance on August 4.
Chicago has a proud working-class history and this year elected six socialists to its city council. At a time when social movements are on the rise and interest in socialist ideas in the United States is at an all time high, the Windy City was the perfect venue for the annual Socialism conference on July 4-7.
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.
Looking at elections in the United States, deeper trends in the population can be difficult to discern as the choices are between two capitalist parties that are both staunch defenders of capitalist rule and US imperialism.
There are no mass workers鈥 parties of any stripe. If there were, we may be in a better position to understand the relation of class forces.
The November 6 midterm elections should have been a ringing repudiation of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. And if not for the dismal state of US 鈥渄emocracy鈥 and the two-party system, it would have been.
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.
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.
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