"When you're done with a condom, you throw it out": New book reveals 2016 Hillary campaign was beset by vicious infighting
Submitted by Soapy on Jul 5 2017 04:00
Hillary’s paranoid rage and the campaign’s infighting made a mockery of the slogan “Stronger Together”
2017: how we got here and how liberalism failed us
An overview of how the events of the past 25 years have lead us to the situation we now find ourselves in.
This is What Democracy Looks Like: Internationalist Perspective statement on the US Election
IP statement on the US elections, published on November 22 2016 on their blog.
Trump and trade war - Mouvement Communiste/Kolektivně proti Kapitălu
A brief text discussing the likely impact of Trump's economic policies (in so far as he has coherent policies) and the social and economic forces behind them.
Consigned to the memory hole: the content of the DNC leaks
Submitted by Soapy on Jan 2 2017 00:18
Hidden from the media narrative of Russian cyber sabotage is the content of the DNC leaks, and how the leaks revealed the arrogance and corruption of the Democratic Party elite.
Liberal commentators respond to election catastrophe by lashing out
Submitted by Soapy on Dec 28 2016 19:48
The catastrophic election results have left Democratic Party hacks lashing out at, well, pretty much everyone for failing to support their miserable candidate.
What's Left after the election of Trump?
Submitted by Fredo Corvo on Nov 28 2016 05:19
A council communist view from the Netherlands.
It is not by supporting a middle-class program - be it left of right in the spectrum of bourgeois politics - that the proletariat can defend itself.
To escape Trump's America, we need to bring the militant labor tactics of 1946 back to the future
Submitted by OliverTwister on Nov 20 2016 20:29
The last general strike in the US was in Oakland in 1946. That year there were 6 city-wide general strikes, plus nationwide strikes in steel, coal, and rail transport. More than 5 million workers struck in the biggest strike wave of US history. So what happened? Why haven't we ever gone out like that again? ... When we allowed ourselves to lose our most important weapons 70 years ago, we took the first step towards Trump's America. We're stuck in the wrong timeline - if we want to get out, we have to bring the militant labor tactics of 1946 back to the future!
Making America worse
The text of a talk by Matthew Lyons at the event "Trump, White Supremacy, Fascism? Building New Resistance Movements!" on June 25, 2016, in Brooklyn, New York.
The real problem with Jill Stein
Submitted by Scott Jay on Aug 16 2016 03:58
Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for President, has come under widespread attack from Hillary Clinton's unscrupulous supporters, but the real problem with Stein is how and why she became the most prominent left-wing candidate in the first place.
