Their Elections Can’t Decide Our Future — We Can
Donald Trump has been reelected, winning both the popular vote and every swing state, with the Republicans likely gaining control of both houses of Congress. But despite what the media says, this is not some mandate from the population. Instead, the election results show this was a rejection of the Democrats and the status quo, […]
Project 2025 Doesn’t Mean We Should Support Democrats
Our readers have probably heard about Project 2025, the extreme right-wing blueprint for a future Trump administration. It was created mostly by the Heritage Foundation, one of the decades old mouthpieces of the capitalist ruling class in the United States, but received support and backing from numerous other reactionary organizations, including many individual right-wing activists […]
Project 2025 and the Attack on Workers’ Rights
Project 2025 is a 900+ page wish list of right-wing proposals to push human rights back to the 1920s when workers had no rights bosses were legally obliged to respect, Black people in the South couldn’t vote, and women had no right to contraception. Much of what Project 2025 proposes, like mass deportations and outlawing […]
Teamsters President’s Dead-end Politics
In most presidential election years, the heads of big labor unions usually endorse who the Democrats pick as their candidate, so when Teamster Union President Sean O’Brien announced he had accepted Trump’s invitation to address the GOP convention, it was a shock to many labor union officials and activists. The GOP shows its hostility to […]
Kamala Harris – When Someone Shows You Who They Are, Believe Them
Much has been made of Joe Biden stepping down as the Democratic Party presidential candidate and Kamala Harris being coronated as the new presumptive nominee. Many people welcome the fact that she is younger and far more coherent than Joe Biden, which is not saying much. Many welcome the fact that she could potentially become […]
The Wrong Way to Stop the Right
Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) made news last week by contributing, for the first time in her nearly five years in the House of Representatives, $260,000 to the campaign arm used by Democrats in the House of Representatives. For her first few years in office, she resisted contributing to the larger fund, choosing to use her […]