The 2016 US Elections
Clinton campaign in crisis over plunging support among younger voters
By Zaida Green, 17 September 2016
Former Vice President Al Gore, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Bernie Sanders all made appearances to insist that young people must back Clinton.
SEP presidential candidate Jerry White denounces war, advances socialist program at third party forum
By our reporter, 17 September 2016
White participated in a radio forum of third-party and independent presidential candidates held at Flint’s Mott Community College.
Clinton’s fall in the polls and the crisis of the Democratic Party
By Patrick Martin, 16 September 2016
Clinton holds only a narrowing lead over Trump because the Democratic Party is incapable of making a genuine appeal to working people and youth facing unemployment, poverty and low wages.
Sanders covers for union isolation of Minnesota nurses’ strike
By Anthony Bertolt, 16 September 2016
The letter by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders does nothing to strengthen the fight against Allina Health and its corporate and political backers.
Socialism vs. Capitalism and War
The SEP and IYSSE schedule November 5 antiwar conference in Detroit
By The Socialist Equality Party, 15 September 2016
The purpose of the conference in Detroit is to politically mobilize workers and young people against the war policies of US and world imperialism, which threaten to escalate into a nuclear Third World War.
Republican governor threatens violence if Hillary Clinton is elected
By Nick Barrickman, 15 September 2016
Bevin’s comments follow in the wake of a number of statements made by prominent Republican officials during the presidential elections hinting at violence.
Online meeting with SEP presidential candidates to begin at 7:00 pm US Eastern Time
15 September 2016
The live stream of the meeting can be accessed here and on the SEP's Facebook page, fb.com/sepus.
West Virginia Supreme Court rules against independent petitioner
By Naomi Spencer—SEP candidate for West Virginia House District 16, 15 September 2016
The ruling may disqualify seven other candidates across the state who petitioned to get onto the ballot.
Minnesota nurses strike at critical juncture
By our reporting team, 13 September 2016
As 4,800 Allina Health nurses enter the second week of their strike, the outcome of the critical struggle depends entirely on the initiative of rank-and-file workers themselves.
SEP presidential candidate discusses elections with striking Minnesota nurses
By our reporting team, 12 September 2016
Allina Health nurses on strike for two weeks discussed the political issues in their struggle with SEP presidential candidate Jerry White Sunday.
Clinton steps up appeals to Republicans, military
By Patrick Martin, 10 September 2016
The Democratic presidential candidate denounced Republican Donald Trump for his praise of Putin and his claim that the US generals had been reduced to “rubble” under Obama.
Media misinformation and the US election’s war agenda
By Bill Van Auken, 10 September 2016
The arrest of two young men in North Carolina for hacking into the accounts of top officials and government agencies casts a stark light on the media’s anti-Russia campaign.
Two months until the US elections: The political issues facing the working class
By Joseph Kishore, 9 September 2016
Whether it is Democrat Hillary Clinton or Republican Donald Trump who occupies the White House, the next administration will be one of war, austerity, repression and violence.
Clinton and Trump bow to the military
By Patrick Martin, 8 September 2016
The unstated premise of Wednesday night’s forum before a veteran’s group in New York City was that the military should have veto power in the selection of the next US “commander-in-chief.”
Clinton denounces Russian “interference” in US elections, calls for escalation in Syria
By Patrick Martin, 7 September 2016
The Democratic presidential candidate has stepped up her McCarthy-style campaign against Republican Donald Trump as an ally or stooge of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The most unpopular candidates in American history
By Patrick Martin, 5 September 2016
The contest between the militaristic Clinton and the fascistic Trump has alienated tens of millions from the corporate-controlled two-party system.
Green Party presidential candidate seeks to corral antiwar sentiment
By Jerry White, 5 September 2016
In a visit to Detroit, Jill Stein criticized Clinton’s policy towards Russia only to say that war could be stopped by appealing to sections of the foreign policy establishment.
As Clinton escalates war threats, Sanders begins campaigning for Democratic nominee
By Patrick Martin, 3 September 2016
Sanders will carry out his first official activity as drum major in the Clinton campaign by taking part in Labor Day events in New Hampshire on Monday.
Clinton’s “American exceptionalism” speech: A bipartisan policy of militarism and war
By Patrick Martin, 2 September 2016
The Democratic presidential candidate’s speech to the American Legion was an attack on Trump from the right, pledging to be more ambitious and decisive in the use of American military power.
Trump outlines ten-point plan for mass deportations and martial law
By Eric London, 2 September 2016
In his anti-immigrant speech in Phoenix, Arizona, the Republican candidate laid out a plan to deport millions of undocumented workers using violent police state methods.
“I don’t think there’s a whole lot we can do unless some type of revolution kicks off”
Socialist Equality Party campaigns in Aurora, Illinois
By our reporters, 31 August 2016
SEP campaigners visited Aurora, once a major industrial center, and now the second largest city in the state, to promote Jerry White and Niles Niemuth’s presidential campaign.
The socioeconomic basis of identity politics: Inequality and the rise of an African American elite
By David Walsh, 30 August 2016
A sharp polarization has emerged among African Americans over the past four decades. The privileged layer that has been produced forms an important basis for racialist politics.
Nothing revolutionary about Sanders’ “Our Revolution”
By Patrick Martin, 29 August 2016
The rollout of the new organization founded by Sanders and his campaign makes crystal clear that its purpose is to direct young people and workers into the blind alley of the Democratic Party.
Clinton highlights Trump’s ultra-right ties to curry favor with establishment Republicans
By Patrick Martin, 26 August 2016
The Democratic presidential candidate used a speech in Reno, Nevada to step up her right-wing appeal for support from Republicans and conservatives.
Newly released emails reveal Clinton ties to CEOs, Persian Gulf despots
By Patrick Martin, 25 August 2016
The allegations of a “pay to play” relationship between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department largely obscure the essential basis of the corruption of the Clintons.
Haiti: What the Clinton e-mails reveal about US election-rigging
By John Marion, 24 August 2016
The e-mails released by the US State Department give details of the imperialist intrigues that installed Michel Martelly as president of Haiti.
SEP presidential candidate Jerry White on impact of “Welfare Reform”
24 August 2016
SEP presidential candidate Jerry White issued this statement on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of "Welfare Reform," signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996.
Twenty years since the Clintons gutted the federal welfare system
By Shelley Connor, 24 August 2016
The embrace of “ending welfare as we know it” marked a fundamental shift to the right in the Democratic Party and capitalist politics as a whole.
Clinton campaigns among the millionaires and billionaires
By Patrick Martin, 23 August 2016
The Democratic presidential candidate has only two public events for the rest of August—and 54 fundraising events with the wealthy backers who are her real base of support.
Twenty years since Clinton’s welfare “reform”
By Jerry White, 23 August 2016
The Clintons’ welfare bill marked the complete abandonment by the Democratic Party of the policy of liberal reform associated with Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930s and Johnson’s War on Poverty in the mid-1960s.
More anti-Russian propaganda from the New York Times
By Barry Grey, 23 August 2016
Precedents for such exercises in state propaganda in the guise of journalism have ended with mass killings, the toppling of governments and, in many cases, the murder of government leaders portrayed as the incarnation of evil.
International Socialist Organization promotes Jill Stein, Green Party as “anti-capitalist”
By Evan Blake, 23 August 2016
What the ISO describes as an “anti-capitalist” amendment to the Greens' platform is in fact a tactical maneuver and a declaration of hostility to socialism.
Media, Democrats cover up Trump’s fascistic politics
By Patrick Martin, 22 August 2016
Last week’s reshuffle has put the Trump campaign under the leadership of an ultra-right publisher linked to “white nationalist” and other fascistic tendencies.
Trump chairman Paul Manafort resigns amidst campaign shift to the right
By Patrick Martin, 20 August 2016
Paul Manafort has been displaced by Stephen Bannon, chairman of the ultra-right Breitbart News, giving the Trump campaign its third chief in three months.
Green Party candidates at CNN town hall: Promoting illusions in the capitalist system
By Evan Blake, 19 August 2016
At the town hall meeting, Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka presented a liberal reformist program, combined with demagogic criticisms of war and the promotion of identity politics.
Socialist Equality Party vice presidential candidate Niles Niemuth condemns US-backed war in Yemen
19 August 2016
This statement was given in response to the ongoing assault on Yemen by Saudi Arabia, including the destruction of a Doctors Without Borders Hospital this week.
The 2016 elections and the crisis of American democracy
By Joseph Kishore, 18 August 2016
In the 2016 elections, the consequences of record inequality, unending war and the protracted crisis of American capitalism are coming to a head.
ATI workers speak to SEP campaigners
By Evan Winters, 18 August 2016
ATI workers expressed interest in the SEP's presidential campaign and disgust with establishment candidates Clinton and Trump.
SEP campaigns in Leechburg and Brackenridge, Pennsylvania
By Evan Winters, 18 August 2016
Residents spoke out against low-wage jobs, dwindling retirement benefits, ballooning student loan debt, and big-business presidential candidates with nothing to offer.
Facebook livestream
SEP US vice presidential candidate Niles Niemuth discusses the police killing in Milwaukee
17 August 2016
SEP US vice presidential candidate Niles Niemuth spoke in a live interview with WSWS reporter Andre Damon about the class issues behind police violence.
Trump and Democrats compete on militarism and war
By Patrick Martin, 16 August 2016
The Republican presidential candidate called for a war of extermination against ISIS, while Democrats responded that Vladimir Putin’s Russia was an equally significant enemy.
The real issues in the 2016 US elections
By Patrick Martin, 15 August 2016
Regardless of who wins in November, the ruling class is preparing a vast expansion of militarist violence and an intensification of the assault on the social and political rights of the working class.
New York Times “human rights” warrior Nicholas Kristof demands military escalation in Syria
By David Walsh, 15 August 2016
Politically conscious workers, intellectuals and young people should know by now that when Kristof and the Times speak of human rights, they mean neocolonial war, mass killing and plunder.
The provocation in Crimea and the threat of world war
By Bill Van Auken, 13 August 2016
The terrorist attack in Crimea and ratcheting up of the war threat in Eastern Europe have exposed the real purpose of the anti-Putin hysteria in both the US election campaign and the Rio Olympics.
Tax return places Clintons in the top 0.02 percent of Americans
By Patrick Martin, 13 August 2016
Only 30,000 US families had incomes as high as the $10.6 million raked in by Bill and Hillary Clinton in 2015—and even that was a significant drop from the previous year.
Warnings from Australian political establishment about Donald Trump
By Oscar Grenfell, 13 August 2016
The Australian ruling elite fears that Trump could disrupt the US alliance, which has been the cornerstone of its foreign policy since World War II.
Wall Street celebrates mass layoffs by Macy’s
By Patrick Martin, 12 August 2016
The largest US department store chain announced it would close 100 stores, which will likely eliminate more than 12,000 jobs.
WikiLeaks offers $20,000 reward over murder of DNC staffer linked to email leak
By E.P. Bannon, 12 August 2016
Rich was in charge of DNC voter expansion data and had access to a wide range of information about the inner workings of the Democratic Party.
After the Sanders debacle
“Socialist Convergence” meets to prepare a new trap for the working class
By Gabriel Black and David Brown, 12 August 2016
The conference, which ran concurrently with the Democratic National Convention, promoted the Green Party presidential campaign of Jill Stein as the continuation of Bernie Sanders’ so-called “political revolution.”
Democrats, media seize on Trump pro-gun comment to step up right-wing campaign
By Barry Grey, 11 August 2016
The Democratic presidential campaign has evolved into an effort to forge a bipartisan consensus on the basis of right-wing militaristic policies.
What CIA Director Michael Hayden told President-Elect Barack Obama
By our reporter, 11 August 2016
Among other things, Hayden’s column in the Times demonstrates that Obama and Biden knew about the CIA program of abductions and torture from day one and kept their mouths shut.
New emails shed further light on Hillary Clinton’s corruption as secretary of state
By Evan Blake, 11 August 2016
A set of emails released Tuesday highlights the influence of the Clinton Foundation during Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.
Trump speech in Detroit: Tax cuts for the wealthy combined with nationalist demagogy
By Patrick Martin, 10 August 2016
Both Clinton and Trump are fully committed to increasing the wealth of the corporate and financial elite at the expense of working people.
The national security state and the US elections
By Patrick Martin, 9 August 2016
A letter against Trump from 50 former top military-intelligence officials of Republican administrations is an unprecedented intervention into a presidential campaign.
Green Party convention: Left rhetoric in the service of pro-capitalist politics
By Evan Blake, 9 August 2016
In the aftermath of Sanders’ endorsement of Clinton, the Greens are posturing as a party opposed to austerity and war in order to keep workers and youth within the framework of bourgeois politics.
As Clinton seeks support from Republicans, Sanders hails her role in the “political revolution”
By Isaac Finn, 8 August 2016
Following the Democratic National Convention, Sanders has remained silent about leaked DNC emails as he seeks to bolster Hillary Clinton as a progressive candidate.
Why the CIA is for Hillary Clinton
By Patrick Martin, 6 August 2016
The Clinton campaign is seeking to direct all anti-Trump sentiment in a right-wing, pro-war direction.
International Socialist Organization calls for Greens to support US-backed “revolution” in Syria
By Marcus Day, 6 August 2016
The ISO, while formally endorsing the Green Party’s presumptive presidential candidate Jill Stein, criticized her for an insufficiently aggressive foreign policy towards Russia and Syria.
Clinton steps up right-wing appeal to Republicans and billionaires
By Tom Eley and Patrick Martin, 5 August 2016
The Democratic presidential campaign is using appeals to patriotism and militarism to woo Republican officials and the super-rich.
US Republican presidential campaign in crisis
By Patrick Martin, 4 August 2016
Discussions within the Republican Party establishment over the fate of the Trump candidacy coincide with criticisms of Trump by the Democrats from the right.
Socialist Equality Party campaigns for ballot status in Louisiana
By Tom Hall and Aaron Asa, 4 August 2016
Throughout the state, campaigners found widespread disaffection with the political establishment and interest in the party’s socialist program.
The Green Party platform: Reformist politics in the service of imperialism
By Tom Hall, 4 August 2016
The Greens are being falsely presented as a “left” alternative in order to prevent workers and youth from drawing the necessary political lessons from the debacle of the Sanders campaign.
After the conventions, Democrats attack Trump from the right
By Patrick Martin, 3 August 2016
The Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party are seeking to use their Republican opponent Donald Trump as a foil for legitimizing their deeply unpopular program of militarism and war.
US courts strike down “Voter ID” laws in four states
By Ed Hightower, 3 August 2016
Recent court rulings concerning attacks on the right to vote in several states underscore the deeply anti-democratic character of “Voter ID” laws
Democrats seize on Khan-Trump conflict to woo right-wing support
By Tom Eley, 2 August 2016
The Democrats and the Clinton campaign are using Trump’s anti-Muslim comments to whip up patriotism and militarism and pressure right-wing figures to support Hillary Clinton.
Democratic Party’s anti-Putin rhetoric prepares escalation of Syrian War
By Andre Damon, 1 August 2016
A campaign to accuse the Putin government of hacking into Democratic Party servers is aimed at creating the conditions for military escalation in Syria and against Russia itself.
Clinton campaign appeals to Republicans and the military
By Patrick Martin, 1 August 2016
The Democratic presidential candidate gave her first post-convention interview to Fox News in a bid for support from right-wing elements disaffected with Donald Trump.
SEP candidate for West Virginia House District 16 files petitions
By our reporters, 1 August 2016
On July 28, Naomi Spencer, the Socialist Equality Party’s candidate for West Virginia House District 16, submitted well over double the required number of signatures to get on the ballot.
After the Democratic and Republican conventions
For a socialist alternative to the parties of austerity and war!
By Socialist Equality Party, 30 July 2016
In the face of an immense economic, social and political crisis, neither Clinton nor Trump has anything to offer but austerity, war and the continued assault on democratic rights.
US media celebrates Democratic Party warmongering
By Patrick Martin, 30 July 2016
Leading columnists for the New York Times and Washington Post have hailed Hillary Clinton as a more consistent and ruthless advocate of US foreign policy interests.
Socialist Alternative promotes Sanders’ “political revolution” without Sanders
By Tom Hall, 30 July 2016
Socialist Alternative's role in helping to organize a walkout of a section of Sanders delegates at the Democratic convention was aimed at promoting Green Party candidate Jill Stein, the next political trap being laid for the working class.
Hillary Clinton’s dishonest, empty acceptance speech
By David Walsh, 29 July 2016
Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic Party nomination for president Thursday night. Everything about the final portion of the Democratic National Convention rang false.
Obama’s legacy: Identity politics in the service of war
By Bill Van Auken, 29 July 2016
The Obama administration has marked the return of the Democrats to their roots as the premier party of US imperialism.
With platform changes, Democrats seek to conceal record of attacks on public education
By Khara Sikhan, 29 July 2016
The Democratic Party, working in collusion with the unions, changed the wording of its party platform to hide Clinton’s record of promoting for-profit charter schools and anti-teacher measures.
Democratic convention: Obama piles on more lies
By Barry Grey, 28 July 2016
Showing his contempt for the intelligence of the American people, the president concluded by repeating the slogans of his 2008 election campaign, as though America in 2016 was the realization of the empty promises he made back then.
The end of the Sanders campaign: The political lessons
By Tom Hall, 28 July 2016
The full support of Bernie Sanders for the nomination of Hillary Clinton confirms the analysis made by the World Socialist Web Site from the inception of his campaign.
DNC protesters speak out against Clinton and war
By our reporters, 28 July 2016
Workers and young people expressed disgust at Clinton’s nomination, and illusions in Sanders’ intentions.
New York Times concocts amalgam to link Trump and Putin in Democrats’ email scandal
By Isaac Finn, 28 July 2016
The Times is spearheading the Clinton campaign’s effort to pin the leaking of incriminating DNC emails on a supposed plot by Russia to tilt the US election in favor of Trump.
The political bankruptcy of filmmaker Michael Moore and his “5 Reasons Why Trump Will Win”
By David Walsh, 28 July 2016
The tired, cynical, internally illogical piece emerges almost inevitably from the left-liberal milieu to which Moore has belonged since the mid-1970s.
Democratic convention nominates Hillary Clinton
By Barry Grey, 27 July 2016
The official nomination of Clinton was part of a carefully-scripted spectacle designed to portray a corrupt and reactionary capitalist party as a vehicle of progress.
War and the Democratic National Convention
By Andre Damon, 27 July 2016
The great unmentionable in the 2016 election is the far-advanced US preparation for military conflict against Russia and China.
DNC’s leaked emails expose corrupt funding practices within the Democratic Party
By Isaac Finn, 27 July 2016
Internal Democratic National Committee emails detail the funneling of donations to the DNC and Clinton campaign, as well as perks to large contributors.
Sanders heaps praise on the “billionaire class’s” chosen candidate
By Jerry White—SEP (US) candidate for president, 27 July 2016
From the beginning the Sanders campaign was a political trap to corral social opposition and contain it within the Democratic Party.
Democratic convention: Sanders caps off a day of deceit and demagogy
By Barry Grey, 26 July 2016
Bernie Sanders sought to turn reality on its head by presenting Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party as fighters for the interests of the common people.
Protesters at Democratic Convention denounce nomination of Hillary Clinton
By our reporters, 26 July 2016
Sanders supporters expressed a range of reactions to his endorsement of Clinton, from hope that it was just a ploy to a feeling of betrayal.
“Socialist Convergence”: A gathering of political bankrupts in Philadelphia
By Joseph Kishore, 26 July 2016
In the wake of Bernie Sanders’ endorsement of Hillary Clinton, an array of organizations in the orbit of the Democratic Party are meeting this week to discuss a new political trap for the working class.
Democratic convention opens: An agenda of militarism and war
By Barry Grey, 25 July 2016
The program of global militarism at the heart of the Clinton campaign is combined with the ferocious promotion of racial and gender politics.
Clinton’s VP pick Tim Kaine: A supporter of war and big business
By Tom Hall, 25 July 2016
The selection of a figure with Kaine’s political resume is a clear indication of the right-wing administration that Clinton intends to form if she is elected president.
Leaked emails show Democratic National Committee targeting Sanders campaign
By Isaac Finn, 25 July 2016
WikiLeaks released thousands of emails that detail the Democratic Party’s dirty dealings and collusion with mainstream media.
Democrats oversee record level of extreme poverty in Philadelphia
By Genevieve Leigh, 25 July 2016
The Democratic National Convention opens Monday in Philadelphia, a city where the Democrat's preside over extreme poverty, massive inequality and a dilapidated education system.
Paul Krugman attacks Trump from the right on Russia
By Bill Van Auken, 23 July 2016
Trump’s questioning whether the US should go to war over the Baltic states prompted denunciations from both “liberal” Democrats like Krugman and right-wing Republicans.
In signal to military, Hillary Clinton picks Senator Tim Kaine as running mate
By Tom Hall, 23 July 2016
In selecting Kaine, Clinton is making clear that she plans on running a right-wing, pro-war campaign targeted at winning over the military and sections of the Republican Party dissatisfied with Trump.
German corporations donate to Trump
By Ulrich Rippert, 23 July 2016
According to a report by the news weekly Die Welt, more than two-thirds of US campaign contributions by large German corporations have benefited the Republicans.
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