The Trump regime’s occupation of Minneapolis with thousands of militarized ICE agents has resulted in horrific scenes of state violence and murder — part of a new mask-off authoritarian approach, as the US empire becomes more aggressive and dangerous both at home and abroad. It has also galvanized a courageous, inspiring, and effective grassroots resistance that shows the way forward for the left.
Over the month since Charlie Kirk’s death, nearly all political stripes have condemned political violence. Meanwhile, Trump has declared war. But while many believe political violence is alien or a threat to capitalist democracy, both state and extra-state violence are baked into this system — and most often committed by the right.
Independence from capitalist parties is a fundamental principle of Marxism. History has demonstrated that any support for the Democratic Party catastrophically dilutes our politics and forestalls revolutionary organizing. Instead, for the foreseeable future, revolutionaries should embrace “electoral nihilism” — a politics that is hostile to electoralism and elections.
The second Trump administration exposes the deepening crisis of United States imperialism and deterioration of its preeminence within the global capitalist system. While still the dominant global economic and military power, the US is seeing fracture and decline in...
The win by Zohran Mamdani in the New York City Democratic Party mayoral primaries has sent shockwaves across the United States. Many on the left, especially sections of the Palestine solidarity movement, have been jubilant, calling it an electoral vindication of...
Two weeks ago, Donald Trump’s second term in the White House reached another new low when he and Vice President JD Vance hosted Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. The meeting, which was broadcast on live television, was expected to conclude...
In a few short weeks, Donald Trump’s second presidential administration has quickly established new lows in reactionary cruelty and chaos compared to his first. With an entrenched far-right nationalist movement behind him in his MAGA minions, and more support from key...
Read part one here: Why Socialists Don’t Vote for Our Enemies Won’t it be easier to organize under a Democrat? All else being equal, probably not. The variables at work in determining the prospects for working-class organization go beyond which party is in the White...