Tag: Left-wing politics

  • Why Can’t I Question Capitalism without Being Called a “Socialist”?

    “The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital.” (Michael Parenti) For as long as I’ve been writing, giving public talks, and all that, I have offered informed critiques of capitalism. For as long as I’ve been offering informed critiques of capitalism, I get replies like this: “I suppose you […]

  • May Day Resurrected

    Another May Day has come and gone, and most Americans never noticed. It wasn’t always like this. In decades past, thousands of workers of different ages, ethnicities and genders celebrated the first of May by marching in support of worker rights. Workers traditionally wore red on May Day to show unity in their struggle against […]

  • Indictment of African People’s Socialist Party Is a Racist Assault on the Black Liberation Movement

    The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally condemns and opposes the recent indictment of four members of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), alongside three Russian nationals. The unsealed indictment states that on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, a federal grand jury in Tampa, Florida, levied charges of “conspiring to covertly sow discord in U.S. society, […]

  • In Chicago the Left Embraces the Democrats and Celebrates Brandon Johnson’s Victory

    Brandon Johnson, a progressive black community activist, union organizer, and former teacher, won the Chicago mayoral election against Paul Vallas, the corporate Democrat opponent. Johnson’s victory expressed popular rejection of neoliberal privatization and respect for progressive unions, in particular the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). Johnson was outspent two to one, but not out-organized, winning 52-48%. […]

  • Behind the Self-Defeating Approach toward the National Protest against the US War on Russia in Ukraine

    Behind the Self-Defeating Approach toward the National Protest against the US War on Russia in Ukraine

    The Rage Against the War Machine, which stood up against the US war on Russia in Ukraine, was the first national anti-war demonstration in the capital in years. This was a groundbreaking event, showing that the anti-war movement has revived on a national scale after years of relative quiescence. Yet this success was not welcomed […]

  • Bravo Lidia Thorpe for Having the Courage to Unshackle Her Struggle for Aboriginal People’s Rights

    Bravo Lidia Thorpe for Having the Courage to Unshackle Her Struggle for Aboriginal People’s Rights

    DjabWurrung Gunnai Gunditjmara woman and prominent voice for Aboriginal rights, Lidia Thorpe today quit the Greens. The federal senator, who had been the Greens First Nations spokesperson, will now sit as an independent. Announcing her resignation from the Greens, Lidia Thorpe stated that: “This country has a strong grassroots blak sovereign movement, full of staunch […]

  • How to Rebuild the Left

    One might as well state the matter clearly: given the realities of global warming, rampant environmental destruction, escalating imperialistic clashes, and a crisis-prone global economy, there is no hope for the world unless an international left can be resurrected. A left at least as powerful as the one that created social democracy in the wake […]

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