It’s not every day that you wake up in your blue state and learn that one of your newly elected Democratic congresspeople is joining with

President Donald Trump’s current general election polling is dismal, putting him down about 9 percentage points in general election polling averages, which is far too

We need strong condemnation of Israel’s annexation plans, not handwringing over bad P.R. Palestinians have been forced to endure Israel’s policies of expulsion and land

These Mormons are taking the church back to its socialist roots. A guest speaker proudly declares, “Bernie is the most Christ-like candidate I have ever

The Democratic Party has provoked a collective eye roll on Twitter after blasting the president for an upcoming rally at Mount Rushmore, saying it would

Last May, Politico reported that Justice Democrats, the congressionally focused insurgent candidate recruitment and training operation that helped launch Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s career, started a

Bernie Sanders did much to advance the cause of Palestine. In his comments and speeches, he challenged the conservative positions baked in to the American

Two broad schools of thought on Bernie Sanders’s impact on US politics seem to be forming. According to the first school, Bernie lost the immediate

It seemed a safe bet as the year began that British politics was about to enter into a period of calm. Instead, the COVID-19 pandemic

Review of The Case For a Job Guarantee, by Pavlina Tcherneva (Wiley, 2020). If COVID-19 is a crisis of public health, it has also become

After a rollercoaster few months, first with Bernie Sanders dropping out and then with the unprecedented explosion of protest in response to the police murder

Bowman along with other progressive and democratic socialist challengers had a very good night, while Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cruised to victory—proving that the left-wing is a

Progressive insurgent Jamaal Bowman was leading Rep. Eliot EngelEliot Lance EngelBowman holds double-digit lead over Engel in NY primary Ocasio-Cortez fends off challenger in House

NEW YORK (AP) – Freshman U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won the Democratic primary in her New York district on Tuesday while other members of Congress

Google’s censure of right-wing outlets over repulsive racist content was pushed by the UK’s Center for Countering Digital Hate, an outfit with strong ties to

Over the past weeks, Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests have been organized all around Sweden, both to show solidarity with victims of US police brutality

Amazon AMZN, +0.79% CEO Jeff Bezos says Juneteenth should be a moment for reflection about the ways we can eradicate systemic racism and create a

NEW YORK (AP) – To the consternation of many Democrats, the front-runner in a crowded congressional primary in one of the bluest districts in New

López, a left-wing insurgent running for Congress, discusses disaster capitalism, defunding police and how she’s taking on the Democratic establishment. “This district needs representation that’s

Socialists and other Bernie Sanders supporters can play a critical role in defeating right-wing populism while building a left-wing alternative for the long term—by going

In recent weeks, we’ve seen health care industry CEOs report paying themselves $2.4 billion as twenty-seven million people were thrown off their health care coverage.

Will the death of George Floyd mark the rebirth of America? – Alternet.org RED SPLASH

The broadest protests in US history have literally brought leading Democrats to their knees in the last few days. But that’s probably about all we’re

Last Tuesday, I tweeted out a photo of a truck parked in downtown Washington, DC, not far from the White House and the protests against

If you have to work during this pandemic, it’s best if you have a union. Research from the Columbia University Labor Lab found that essential

This week Bernie Sanders, now out of the running for the Democratic Party presidential nominee, expressed some skepticism about the demand to defund the police

Bowman, a progressive insurgent, is gaining steam in his primary challenge to Democratic incumbent Rep. Eliot Engel. And now he has both Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and

Review of This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman, by Ilhan Omar with Rebecca Paley (Dey Street Books, 2020). I

Sen. Ted Cuz (R-Texas) poked CNN over transparency on Monday after a video emerged that appeared to show CNN anchor Chris CuomoChristopher (Chris) Charles CuomoTrump

The Washington Post just named its top 11 vice presidential picks for Joe BidenJoe BidenThe sad spectacle of Trump’s enablers Democrats seek to tap into fury over

MONTCLAIR, N.J. (AP) – Presidential politics move fast. What we’re watching heading into a new week on the 2020 campaign: Days to next set of

To the consternation of many on the Left, Joe Biden formally secured the Democratic Party’s nomination yesterday. And if polling both nationally and in several

After months of fierce campaigning — and a worldwide pandemic interrupting the normal primary schedule — former Vice President Joe Biden has officially earned enough

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden formally clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Friday, setting him up for a bruising challenge to President Donald Trump that will

Former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenOVERNIGHT DEFENSE: Murkowski, Mattis criticism ratchets up pressure on GOP over Trump| Esper orders hundreds of active-duty troops outside DC

When an already suffering, dispossessed, angry population pleads for justice and receives instead more repression and disrespect, things have a tendency to explode. In the

One of the crown jewels of the Constitution is the Fourteenth Amendment — which promises that there will be “equal protection” for all people under

On March 9, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that New York State prisoners would be producing hand sanitizer, just as incarcerated people and outside activists alike

On April 8, days after Philadelphia’s official COVID-19 shutdown, Bernie Sanders delivered a video statement announcing the suspension of his presidential campaign. Nikil Saval, candidate

Earlier this month, while touring a factory in Arizona, President Donald Trump reiterated his desire to reopen the American economy as soon as possible. While

The authors of “An Open Letter to the New New Left From the Old New Left” failed to grasp several things about the Democratic Socialists

I can’t figure out why Emily is dancing in her bikini. I’ve just turned on the simulation for all the Sims I’ve made of my

Joe Biden’s national polling lead against President Donald Trump has been relatively stable for months. But the looming question for Biden is whether he can

France is one of the countries worst affected by the coronavirus pandemic — with more than 130,000 cases and 24,000 deaths at the time of

The coronavirus is causing a major global social and economic crisis. In the United States, the government’s response to this crisis has been disastrous, and

Former Vice President Joe Biden is no stranger to the political gaffe. And on Friday, he stepped in it once again. After putting it off

Earlier this month, baseball restarted in South Korea, with teams competing in empty stadiums. In the United States, however, sports leagues remain shut down indefinitely

President Donald Trump has said he wants to halt immigration while Americans face staggeringly high unemployment levels as a result of the coronavirus pandemic —

Paul Prescod gave a YouTube lecture on the life and politics of A. Philip Randolph for the Jacobin “Stay at Home” series on Monday. You

As tens of millions of Americans face long-term unemployment, instead of advocating for policies that would help those feeling the greatest impact of the crisis,

During a Friday interview on The Breakfast Club radio show, former Vice President Joe Biden made a controversial comment in an attempt to highlight his

A debate over whether to extend enhanced unemployment benefits is emerging as a significant obstacle to getting a deal on another round of coronavirus relief

Joe Rogan — one of the world’s most popular and influential podcasters — is taking his show to Spotify. By the end of this year,

It’s time to stop treating high-speed internet as a luxury commodity and instead place it under democratic and public control. This crisis has clearly illustrated

Many liberal professionals who supported Elizabeth Warren took their votes to Joe Biden, not Bernie Sanders. But they may still join a future left electoral

Bernie lost with Black voters, but the Left will win if we commit to deep organizing work to earn their trust. Most Black people—young or

It’s a bewildering, and for some, demobilizing time. The pandemic has upended all our usual ways of organizing, or even participating in public life. The

COVID-19 inflicted unprecedented damage across the world within weeks — but it could only do so because it joined forces with another far more malignant

NEW YORK—Federal appeals court judges seemed inclined during oral arguments Friday to let New York’s Democratic presidential primary proceed next month despite state claims that

The California National Guard provided military surveillance equipment to the University of California at Santa Cruz’s Police Department in order to surveil and police the

The House on Friday passed the HEROES Act, Democrats’ $3 trillion proposal for the next stimulus package. While it’s already been dismissed by Republicans in

On Valentine’s Day, three hundred airport food service workers protested for healthcare and a living wage outside Terminal 8 at New York City’s John F.

No, Jeff Bezos is not about to become a trillionaire. A new swell of outrage headed toward the world’s richest man on Thursday when a

There are a lot of hard feelings on the Left these days. Leaving aside the particular distortions of the Twitter world, where 280 characters often

One consequence of COVID-19 is that you no longer hear Democratic politicians talking much about how American workers love their job-based health coverage, or how

Review of The Socialist Challenge Today by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin with Stephen Maher (Haymarket Books, 2020). It’s never easy being a socialist. But

Dr. Anthony Fauci was careful not to directly rebuke President Donald Trump during Tuesday’s Senate hearing on the coronavirus pandemic. Even so, the totality of

Bernie Sanders was in a Senate Committee Hearing on Tuesday morning to discuss the reopening of the United States in the midst of the COVID-19

Joe Biden is looking for a running mate, having effectively clinched the Democratic nomination after Sen. Bernie Sanders exited the race. Biden informed donors last

Donald Trump has accused the ‘lamestream’ media of conspiring together to undermine him after he shared heated exchanges with two reporters at a Monday press briefing before

Weijia Jiang, a White House correspondent for CBS News, asked the President why he sees coronavirus testing as a global competition when more than 80,000

Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersSanders: US facing ‘worst moment in American history maybe since the Civil War’ Poll: Six in 10 voters approve of Hillary Clinton’s

We must not overlook the danger of Trump’s signaling. The tightening of the Trump-GOP-Militia embrace is rooted in the way the Covid-19 crisis has affected

While the pandemic ravages American workers, the federal government has orchestrated a monumental transfer of wealth from the bottom of the economic ladder to the

Supporters of the Green New Deal (GND) draw inspiration from the federal government’s bold experiments of the 1930s. But there’s one progressive model from that

A major party’s presumptive nominee enmeshed in multiple sexual harassment and assault scandals dropping out months before the general election is the sort of thing

Almost as soon as former vice president Joe Biden was left as the only candidate still running in the Democratic primary, the celebration that typically

Socialists have long argued that the failures of capitalism can only be overcome by a shift from private to public ownership and from market competition

There is probably no contemporary filmmaker who is more associated with advocacy for trade unions and workers than documentarian Michael Moore. His 1989 breakout documentary,

Since Bernie Sanders suspended his presidential campaign last month, many of his supporters are turning to the question of where the movement for political revolution

Bernie Sanders changed my life. Before his campaign, I was politically adrift. I was a politically engaged but very disappointed Democrat who didn’t know where

How will the coronavirus crisis affect American politics? The focus, for now, is naturally on the emergency itself. As of Friday evening, more than one

The deceitful rhetoric of classlessness has permeated the two-party political systems in both the United States and United Kingdom since the days of Reagan and

Twitter/Getty Tara Reade then and Joe Biden now Tara Reade, a former staffer for former Vice President Joe Biden when he was in the U.S.

In the post-Occupy age, the Right has had two kinds of response to the unwelcome intrusion of class inequality into the public sphere. The first,

Days after Bernie Sanders announced that he was suspending his campaign in the 2020 Democratic primary, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) tweeted its position:

I worked for Bernie in 2016. We noticed then that Latinos liked Bernie because he was speaking on the issues that so many politicians refused

Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has officially endorsed Joe Biden for president. Clinton made the announcement Tuesday during a virtual town hall with the

Despite our best hopes and struggle, Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign once again ended in second place. But while we came up short, it’s more than

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies and American Enterprise Institute are aggressively campaigning for military escalation and a tightening of sanctions. Amid an unprecedented global

As we head into the fifth month of the outbreak millions of working families feel like they have been kidnapped and sent to hell. As

On Monday, Bloomberg’s human resources department reached out to the staff offering to pay for COBRA plans through November, according to an email shared with

New York state has canceled its June 23 Democratic presidential primary, becoming the first state to do so over concerns about the coronavirus. The decision

At this point there can be only one priority: to overcome the public health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. As economist James Meadway has

Why the Democratic Party must support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez against her cynical primary challenger – Alternet.org RED SPLASH

Review of Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, Searching for Socialism: The Project of the Labour New Left from Benn to Corbyn (Verso Books, 2020) With

In media commentary on the extraordinary crisis response of governments, health care systems, and central banks to the COVID-19 pandemic, wartime analogies abound. Yet, as

While Bernie Sanders paid a political price for uttering something positive about Cuba’s literacy program, the current pandemic has shown the whole world the heroic

Joe Biden wrapped up the nomination on April 8, the day Sanders dropped out. And many prominent liberals celebrated the coronation of the man promising

Mike Bloomberg spent $1.2 BILLION on his failed four-month long presidential run and now faces losing more as he is sued by fired workers (but