United States
Providence Cops Abuse Protesters after Ramming Man off Scooter
Police in Providence, Rhode Island crashed into a man on a scooter to end a chase, leaving him critically injured. When people turned out in protest, cops arrested and brutalized many of them.
Signý A.
October 31, 2020Goodbye Jobs and Hello Poverty: U.S. Capitalism in the Runup to the Elections and Beyond
Tens of thousands of workers across the United States have lost their jobs in the last month, and most of those jobs won’t be coming back. There are 8 million people newly below the poverty line since May. This is the promise of U.S. capitalism in the age of crisis and coronavirus.
Scott Cooper
October 31, 2020Their Democracy and Ours
The "greatest democracy in the world" is in crisis. The U.S. Constitution, once treated as a kind of holy text, is now seen as it is: a document written by enslavers and large landowners to protect their privileges. Communists are often accused of being anti-democratic. But the opposite is the case: we call for a much more profound form of democracy than the United States or any capitalist country can possibly offer.
Nathaniel Flakin
October 17, 2020Socialists Should Not Vote for Joe Biden
Voting for neoliberals won’t lead to meaningful victories on any of the issues that matter to working people. Nor will a Biden victory save us from the real dangers posed by the far right, which grew substantially during Obama’s smooth-talking neoliberal presidency.
Omar Hassan
October 9, 2020VP Debate: One Fly and Two Candidates of the Bourgeois State
At the vice presidential debate, Kamala Harris and Mike Pence fought about everything from the coronavirus response to swine flu to fracking. However, when you look past their rhetorical disagreements and Pence's near-constant flaunting of the rules, the candidates actually have a lot more in common than they'd have you think.
Sybil Davis
October 8, 2020Two More Arab States Normalize Relations with Israel
Bahrain and the UAE are the first Arab states in twenty-five years to establish formal ties with Israel (joining Egypt and Jordan), officially demolishing the already decaying facade of Arab unity with Palestine.
Mia Moraru
October 2, 2020Trump vs. Biden: A Debate That Shows the Empire’s Decline
The presidential candidates clashed in the first of three debates. The debate was worse than expected, a clear sign of the decline of U.S. imperialism.
Claudia Cinatti
October 1, 2020Get Rid of the Senate!
The upper chamber of the U.S. Congress went on a month-long vacation as the pandemic raged. That is no coincidence: the Senate is a completely reactionary institution whose members have nothing to do with the lives of working people.
Olivia Wood
September 28, 2020In Debate: A Socialist’s Case for Howie Hawkins
As part of our ongoing analysis of the U.S. Green Party, guest writer John Palmucci offers a counter to Ezra Brain's Left Voice article: "A Socialist Case Against Howie Hawkins and the Green Party." Palmucci argues that most criticisms of the Green Party do not apply to its presidential candidate, Howie Hawkins and that socialists should have no qualms with voting for him.
John Palmucci
September 26, 2020Can the Green Party Be a Vehicle For Socialists? A European Perspective
Howie Hawkins, the presidential candidate of the Green Party, is presenting himself as an alternative to the two parties of the capitalists. But can the Greens help build the socialist movement? A look at the Green Parties of Europe says: no.
Nathaniel Flakin
September 26, 2020