Tag: Political events

  • This Day in Anarchist History: The Haymarket Affair

    Have you heard the story of why we celebrate May Day? In Chicago in 1886 police murdered two people at a general strike for an 8 hour work day. A rally for revenge on May 4thled to a riot when a bomb was thrown at the police. Several cops and protesters were killed in the […]

  • Putin Officially Declared Russia’s President-elect

    Putin Officially Declared Russia’s President-elect

    Russian President Vladimir Putin. ©  Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov Vladimir Putin has won a landslide victory in the presidential election, Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has officially announced. The inauguration of the president-elect is scheduled for May 7. The CEC head, Ella Pamfilova, revealed on Thursday that more than 76.2 million Russian voters cast ballots for Putin, […]

  • Still No Human Rights for the Poor

    The poor and marginalised have not seen any gains in almost 30 years of democracy. The poor remain poor and unemployment, poverty and inequality are worse today than at the end of apartheid. Many more people live in shacks than in 1994. Those who live in shack settlements continue to be denied access to basic […]

  • California Greens Experience Notable Boost in Registration

    California Greens Experience Notable Boost in Registration

    Credit: Facebook.com/cagreens For the first time recorded since January 2016, the Green Party of California (GPCA) has more than 100,000 registered members. The California Secretary of State’s newest report of voter enrollment numbers, counted 154 days from the March 5, 2024, primary election, shows 101,620 people have joined the Greens in the Golden State. (There […]

  • Shaping the Political Race

    The divisive America of today longs for the time when the country united in one mission and selected a leader it could trust to accomplish the mission. The year is 1940 and the New York Times estimates that incumbent president, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (FDR), a non-declared and drafted candidate for the Democratic Party (D) […]

  • Cornel West Runs for President: You Can’t Be a Spoiler if the System Is Already Rotten

    Under the less than inspiring implicit slogan of “You’re Stuck with Biden,” the Democratic Party has foregone presidential primary debates this election season. Not even bothering with the pretense of democratic people’s choice, naked bourgeois rule is offered to their captured constituencies. Joe Biden’s approval rating has sunk to a dismal 40.5%. USA Today asks: […]

  • Short Walk Home Long Walk to Freedom

    Short Walk Home Long Walk to Freedom

    From 2018-2019, Palestinians in Gaza engaged in mass civil resistance, calling for an end to Israel’s blockade and the realization of their right to return. Israel’s response was to open fire on protesters, massacring hundreds and wounding thousands. This visual tells the story of Israel’s repression of Palestinian civil resistance in Gaza.

  • Why RFK Jr. Will Announce on Monday He’ll Run as an Independent

    Why RFK Jr. Will Announce on Monday He’ll Run as an Independent

    On September 29, the very pro-Biden Mediaite site headlined and reported with hostility toward RFK Jr., “EXCLUSIVE: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Planning to Announce Independent Run”. Then, on October 4, RFK Jr.’s Presidential campaign announced that on October 9 he “will make a historic announcement in Philadelphia, where he will share a vision of a […]

  • The Urge to Destroy

    As humanity recons with a never ending cavalcade of catastrophes, large segments of the population have succumbed to despair or distraction through culture wars or a series of vain cultural phenomena. [Insert Barbenheimer joke here.] Many youth, particularly in France, have channeled this hopelessness into rage. For the past several months the country had been […]

  • Assassination in Kinshasa

    Assassination in Kinshasa

    One week ago, on Thursday, July 13, Congolese opposition figure Chérubin Okende was found dead in his car riddled with bullets. Mr. Okende is a former transportation minister in the Tshisekedi Administration, member of parliament and spokesperson for presidential candidate Moise Katumbi’s Ensemble Pour La Republique political party. Okende was reported kidnapped from the front […]

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