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The tasks for DSA after the blue wave (plus Socialism wins in a purple district)
The US midterm elections were a major blow to the far right. Now it’s up to democratic socialists to make the most of it, argues the Bread & Roses caucus. Plus Geovanny Tolentino and Jordan Millett look at how socialists in Salem, Oregon won by embracing the rose.
After the blue tsunami: Political openings, material gains and a winning socialist strategy
The Tempest National Committee argues that Trump’s huge defeat in the US midterm elections creates an important opening, but one that will not be met by a strategy centred on electoral politics within the Democratic Party.
Two blue waves upend ruling parties: US flows left, South Africa drifts right
Two recent elections generated opposite ideological results: while the Democrat’s blue tsunami saw it take over US Congress, South Africans voted in rising numbers for blue-led centre-right and far-right xenophobes, writes Patrick Bond.
Lula’s comeback: A popular victory that marks the start of a new chapter
The Socialist Left Movement offer a preliminary assessment of Lula’s historic win and outline some clear tasks for the left amid this new and acute stage of class struggle in Brazil.
Trumpism and Latin America’s new right governments
While the far right surge can be seen as a response to the earlier leftward turn in Latin America, it also represents a genuine turning point, writes Eduardo Lucita.
Brazil: We must confront Bolsonaro’s supporters in the streets and at the polls
The Socialist Left Movement argue there is no middle ground in Brazil’s elections: either Lula wins or Brazil has its worst government ever, creating a dangerous situation.
Fires, floods and heatwaves are warning signs of a social order whose pursuit of endless accumulation is colliding with ecological limits, contends Phil Hearse.
The Trump–Rodríguez pact and Venezuela’s neocolonial subordination
The US-Venezuela oil deal, a product of the pact between “brutalist” imperialism and an authoritarian regime, represents the exercise of arbitrary power through neocolonial subordination, writes Emiliano Teran Mantovani.
DSA’s Ella Teevan: ‘Socialism has broken containment in the United States’
Ella Teevan discusses the US midterms, how the Democratic Socialists of America can build on its successes, and challenging US imperialism and President Donald Trump’s far-right agenda.
Benjamin Bürbaumer discusses why capitalism leads great powers to resort to coercion, how Western Europe became integrated into US capitalism, and whether China could displace a declining US with a new Sino-centred capitalism.
The dark shadow spreading across Latin America
Trump and the global far right have made serious progress in Latin America. The next big battle against this neofascist wave has already begun in Brazil, writes Ana Cristina Carvalhaes.
Colombia and Latin America: A new stage of the struggle
Far right politician Abelardo de la Espriella will soon be sworn in as president, but Colombia is far from being under the control of the United States, reports Ted Zuur.