What Will the U.S. Elections Mean Internationally?

The U.S. elections, which occur at the center of capital and imperialism, will undoubtedly have a global impact. The choice between Trump or Biden offers the working class around the world a lose-lose scenario and reaffirms the decline of the American Empire.

Joe Biden: Wall Street’s “Man in Washington”

Wall Street has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to Biden and the Democrats this election cycle, an investment that will no doubt pay big dividends if he is elected. As always, it’s the working class who will be forced to pay the bill.

Why I Didn’t Vote for Biden

A Left Voice editor gives a personal account of her own decision not to vote for Joe Biden, or Howie Hawkins, or any other candidate running on the ticket of a bourgeois party. 

Joe Biden’s Arab-American Agenda Is an Insult to Arabs

Joe Biden wants to act like he’s on the side of Arab-Americans. Don’t believe him.

Of Course Joe Biden Intends to Appoint Republicans to His Cabinet

Last week, progressives were frustrated to learn that Joe Biden is reportedly considering moderate Republicans like John Kasich and Jeff Flake for Cabinet positions. But Biden already agrees with Republicans on key issues such as supporting private healthcare, big business, U.S. imperialism, and the police. 

A Socialist Agenda for the 2020 Elections

How working people and the broad Left respond to this election and how we prepare for the battles ahead will have long-lasting effects on our prospects under a Trump or Biden presidency.

The Final Debate: More of the Same With a Mute Button

Stripped of political theater, the final debate of the 2020 presidential election showed clearer than ever before that Donald Trump and Joe Biden want to present themselves as candidates of bourgeois “stability.” Though they differ in tactics, their responses showed that they share a vision of shoring up U.S. capitalist interests and revitalizing the decaying U.S. imperialist regime — and that they are more than willing to sacrifice the working class and oppressed across the world to do it.

Leading Members of the DSA Want You to Get Out the Vote for Biden

After criticizing Biden for months, leading members of the Democratic Socialists of America are urging their supporters to beat Trump by "getting out the vote" for the Democratic Party. Such fealty to the logic of lesser evilism shows the fundamental contradictions of class collaboration and the poverty of the DSA's larger strategy for socialism.

The Austerity Election

The winner of this election will be called upon by the capitalists to implement sweeping austerity to make the working class pay for the capitalist crisis. More and more capitalists seem to be making the call that Joe Biden will be more successful at doing austerity than Trump. Either way, we should be clear that whoever wins, austerity is coming and we must prepare to fight it.