Democracy, Inequality And Social Security
Steven Hill, Democracy SOS. \America’s greatest anti-poverty program has long been the great income leveller in an unequal economy and democracy. And now it faces an existential threat. A financial…
Colorado Primary Results Register Another Victory for Democratic Socialism
Austin Sarat Melat Kiros, Darializa Avila Chevalier, Brad Lander and Claire Valdez, are hardly household names. But if President Trump and his MAGA allies have their way they will soon…
Fighting the Corporate Duopoly at the Ballot Box (w/ Kshama Sawant) | The Chris Hedges Report
Chris Hedges In this episode of The Chris Hedges Report, Chris Hedges speaks with Kshama Sawant, a revolutionary socialist based in Seattle, Washington, who is challenging long-time incumbent Democrat Adam…
Socialism Under Siege: Cuba Embarks On Emergency Reforms
C. J. Atkins, People’s World. State capitalism, socialist market economy, New Economic Policy—whatever term supporters or critics of the Cuban Revolution want to use. It’s clear that the emergency reforms…
Is Zohran Mamdani the Future of American Politics? Affordability, Socialism and the Revolt Against the Democratic Establishment
As millions of Americans struggle with soaring rents, crushing childcare costs, stagnant wages and a political system increasingly captured by wealth, a new political force has emerged from New York…
Socialism Is Slow To Mature
Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. The capitalist system rewards short-term cycles. Building a dignified future is a slow task that requires disciplined organisation and an enduring struggle to…
The United States Is On The Path To Fascism; How To Change Course
Posted by Joshua Scheer As the United States hurtles deeper into political, economic, and imperial crisis, the word “fascism” is no longer rhetorical—it’s descriptive. On this week’s Clearing the FOG,…
A New Mayor, an Old Tradition: Yiddish Socialism Reawakens
By Joshua Scheer First off, happy New Year. Late last night, Zohran Mamdani was sworn in deep in the bowels of a New York City subway station. Then this morning,…
Chris Hedges Full Speech at Workers Strike Back Conference
By Chris Hedges / The Chris Hedges Report Transcript of my talk: For over two decades, I and a handful of others — Sheldon Wolin, Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Cornel…
What if There Had Been No Coup in Chile in 1973?
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Imagine this scenario. On 11 September 1973, the reactionary sections of the Chilean army, led by General Augusto Pinochet and given…
Why the Republi-Fascists Can’t Stop Calling the Capitalist Democrats ‘Marxists’
By Paul Street / CounterPunch The Capitalist Democrats… The Democratic Party is a militantly capitalist entity and always has been – and not just in the neoliberal era. The much…
US Anti-Socialism Resolution Demeans US Allies
By Edward Hunt / CounterPunch The anti-socialism resolution passed by the House of Representatives earlier this month sent a chilling message not only to socialists in the United States but…
