Democrats (US)

Boris on Trump

From US hegemony to a ‘war of all against all’: Boris Kagarlitsky on Trump’s first 100 days

Despite severe restrictions on political prisoners, Boris Kagarlitsky continues to analyse global developments. Here, he offers a sharp and often ironic reflection on the dynamics behind Trump’s return to power.
Mamdani on megaphone

Beyond ‘No Kings’

Paul Le Blanc on finding a persuasive rhetoric and demands going in the socialist direction that make sense to people.

A political earthquake in New York City: Socialist Zohram Mamdani wins Democratic mayoral primary

Winnie Marion discusses Zohram Mamdani’s victory and its broader implications for US politics. 
Trump big beautiful bill

The hideous truth about Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’

Lance Selfa sums up the three major impacts of Trump’s big, ugly mess.
"Zohran for Mayor" in Stuyvesant Town (Eden Janine, Flickr, Creative Commons)

What Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in New York City tell us about our political moment

Eric Blanc — Absorbing the key lessons of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign is essential for the fights ahead, not just in New York City, but across the United States.
Trump Vance rally

US socialists: ‘Trump’s election shows the far right has been better at capitalising on these times of crisis than the left’

Cyn Huang and Daniil Sapunkov discuss the US presidential election result and what it likely impacts on politics at home and abroad.
Donald Trump on phone

The Trump effect

Boris Kagarlitsky — The election results show that the mere threat of a reactionary turn was not enough. Liberals are now doomed to reap the fruits of their catastrophic policies, the dire consequences of which will affect not only the United States but the entire world.
Kamala Harris

Capitalist politics in crisis: Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, and the struggles ahead in the United States

Justin Akers Chacón — The defeat of the Democrats is not a reflection of hard right political shifts in the working class but a rejection of that party’s hard right shifts amid a deepening confluence of overarching crises.
Donald Trump supporter

Trump versus Harris: Is fascism coming to the United States?

Bryan Palmer — Stopping fascism that some see coming to America is indeed both necessary and laudatory. But to do that we need to know what fascism is and what it is not.

(Video) The genocidal returns of lesser evilism: The US presidential elections and left strategy

brian bean, Kristen Godfrey, and Natalia Tylim take up the question of the 2024 elections as a strategic issue for the organized socialist left and not simply as a question about how an individual may choose to vote in an increasingly undemocratic election
Uncommitted Movement

Palestine: From shifting the discourse to changing US policy

Max Elbaum — The movement opposing Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza has transformed this country’s conversation about Palestine. This achievement opens the path to forcing a change in US policy and to putting internationalism at the center of the progressive movement’s agenda.
Tempest artwork

US politics today: Chaos, conflict and a creeping constitutional crisis

Ashley Smith — The greater evil is obviously Trump and the far-right GOP. Harris and the Democratic Party are lesser evils by comparison. But that does not exonerate them of being evil.

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