The defining feature of Israeli “democracy,” including its elections last week, is its operation according to a Jewish supremacist logic, intensifying the discrimination, oppression, apartheid, mass violence, and genocide against Palestinians.
In 2008, Barack Obama won a landslide victory and enormous mandate, only to quickly squander it. Today the Democratic establishment is far more delegitimized, and the Left is far stronger. History doesn’t have to repeat itself.
The Democratic Socialists of America have gone from political obscurity to a major force in American politics. Vivek Chibber and Paul Heideman discuss its remarkable rise — and why electoral victories alone won’t build lasting working-class power.
Amid protests in France, police unions are pushing for wage hikes and special legal privileges to cash in on the political capital they’ve built under Emmanuel Macron’s rule.
Democratic voters have long sided with socialists on policy but feared they were a liability in elections. Last night’s results finally proved that wrong.
Seventy years ago today, Soviet forces crushed the Hungarian uprising that had electrified Eastern Europe. Latter-day conservative narratives distort the true history of the 1956 revolution and the crucial role of workers’ councils in driving it forward.
Though still a small minority, socialists will soon have more members in Congress than they ever have before. A socialist caucus can help them build their power.
The reaction of the bulk of the American people to the cruelty and authoritarianism they’ve seen in the last two years has been abject disgust. They voted like it in the midterms.
Zohran Mamdani understood something no one else did: most Donald Trump voters had their reasons for going for Trump, and those reasons were economic. Mamdani saw that, and he saw a path to winning them back. He gave it a name: affordability.
The takeaways from the midterms are clear: no amount of billionaire spending could overcome the fact that Donald Trump’s dominance is coming to a close, the Left has much more room to grow, and we have entered a period of new possibility in US politics.
A look at the polls and Donald Trump’s rhetoric on the midterms campaign trail suggests that MAGA may be exhausted and about to suffer a significant body blow.
Erika Hilton, one of Brazil’s first trans legislators, has brought new energy to the Brazilian left. The socialist congresswoman helped lead the fight to establish a 40-hour workweek that also gave a vital boost to Lula’s presidential campaign.