Democratic Party
Another Broken Promise: Biden Scraps Free Community College Proposal
Jill Biden confirmed today that two years of tuition-free community college won’t be part of any Build Back Better legislation. This shows, yet again, that Democrats don’t care about the working class.
Left Voice
February 7, 2022Mass Action Will Protect and Expand Our Abortion Rights, Not Politicians and PACs
In 2004, more than a million people protested Bush-era abortion policies in a march on Washington DC. Where are the organizers of the March for Women’s Lives seventeen years later as we face the biggest threat to abortion rights since the passage of Roe v. Wade?
Cal Berry
January 22, 2022The Problem of Wanting Biden to “Succeed”
While Joe Biden has dismal approval ratings, many Democrats are still wishing for him to “succeed.” But success for bourgeois capitalist politicians like Biden always comes at the expense of the working class.
Adnan Ahmed
January 20, 2022The Democrats Aren’t Bad at Politics. Their Politics Are Bad
The Biden administration has accomplished little of its “transformative” agenda in its first year. But it has been very effective when it comes to furthering the Democrats’ capitalist and imperialist interests.
Otto Fors
January 19, 2022Jim Crow Joe’s Voting Rights Speech Made a Mockery of the Civil Rights Movement
Joe Biden cynically spoke out in favor of voting rights, pretending to have been an activist in the civil rights movement. But for all his talk about expanding democracy, Biden serves, strengthens, legitimizes, and protects the racist, undemocratic system under which we live.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
January 14, 2022Build Back Better Is Dead, Like All of Biden’s Promises
Build Back Better is dead at the hands of coal baron Joe Manchin. But this isn't just about Manchin — it's a about a Democratic Party that doesn't fight for working-class and oppressed people, and an undemocratic system that blocks even the smallest reforms.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
December 22, 2021The Democrats Just Gave the Military Industrial Complex a Huge Raise
Joe Biden just approved a $777.7 billion dollar military budget, the highest military spending package since World War II. This budget is 5 percent higher than that under the Trump administration and gives the military $24 billion more than Joe Biden requested.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
December 13, 2021A Tucson Cop Murdered A Disabled Man in A Wheelchair
Richard Lee Richards, a disabled man in Tucson, Arizona was fatally shot in the back by a cop after he allegedly stole a toolbox. Yet Joe Biden still went through with plans to make the Tucson police chief his new Border Patrol director. This is further evidence that the Democratic Party wants Black Lives Matter protesters off the streets but doesn’t intend to actually stop police brutality.
Daniel Nath
December 12, 2021Why Are There So Few Large Strikes? Blame the Democratic Party
The number of large strikes has plummeted since the 1970s. The main reason is the link between union leaders and the Democratic Party. That link has to be cut.
Jason Koslowski
December 7, 2021Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Jamaal Bowman and the DSA
Some DSA members are calling for Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s expulsion following his recent trip to Israel. The conflict reveals the deep contradictions in the organization’s strategy, and the illusion of “accountable Democrats.”
Otto Fors
November 24, 2021