On supporting reproductive justice and women’s bodily autonomy
Making abortion illegal does not stop abortions; it simply makes getting them unsafe and dangerous
USA
Why the Democrats have won one battle against Trump but can’t win the war
The win by Biden is a partial victory but it is insufficient; Trump and Trumpism needed to be crushed and the normalisation of the far right, racism, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia prevented
Trump’s debt to the Ku Klux Klan
Donald Trump’s political roots, and those of the heavily armed neo-fascist militias taking to the streets to support him, are in the slave-owning Confederacy and the failure of the post-Civil War settlement known as The Reconstruction.
Ecosocialism: the elephant in the DSA room?
, it attempts to go beyond analysis of what has been achieved, to pointing out how to build a really broad and radical movement that will go much further in the near future – with the clear aim of achieving permanent non-reformist change.
Far-Left Fascism: The Non-Existent Disorder …
With all other avenues rapidly closing, the racism, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia that have characterised Trump’s political life are the only thing he has left in his toolbox that he can use to try to win re-election.
Make Black Lives Matter
The surest way of reducing police violence is to reduce the power of the police, by cutting budgets and the number of officers. But we are not abandoning our communities to violence. We don’t want to just close police departments. We want to make them obsolete.
Global protests offer hope in time of fear
In the United States Black Lives Matter has severely damaged Trump. The movement made the connection between the racism of American society and the staggeringly disproportionate death toll of Black Americans in the pandemic.
History Marched Past my Door Last Night Carrying the Future on her Shoulders
Dan La Botz reports on how the huge mobilisations in the US are creating cracks at the top and shifts at the bottom.
We Can’t Breathe: Rebellion against Racist Police Violence
George Floyd’s recorded pleas of “I can’t breathe” are painfully reminiscent of the police murder of Eric Garner by New York city police in 2014… The political climate that encourages this is stoked by a president who openly flirts with the most racist and reactionary forces in the country with the tacit complicity of one of the parties that rule us and the hollow dissent and ineffectuality of the other.
Dangerous times in the USA
Whenever you think that Trump has reached the nadir of his Presidency, he always manages to continue the downward trend, writes Susan Pashkoff.
