Block, squander, disorganize?
Socialists and the 2024 elections – A reply to Max Elbaum
by Ashley SmithAshley Smith responds to Max Elbaum’s overheated polemic on the question of strategy for socialists in the 2024 elections.
A revolutionary socialist organizing project
Socialists and the 2024 elections – A reply to Max Elbaum
by Ashley SmithAshley Smith responds to Max Elbaum’s overheated polemic on the question of strategy for socialists in the 2024 elections.
Chaos, conflict, and a creeping constitutional crisis
by Ashley SmithAshley Smith discusses the U.S. presidential election and the limitations of lesser-evilism.
Tempest’s Natalia Tylim explains how pinning our hopes on the presidential candidacy of Kamala Harris against Trump is misguided and how the task is to build an infrastructure of resistance to both parties of capitalism and empire and make the case for a socialist horizon.
Immediate and medium-term effects
by Kunal ChattopadhyayKunal Chattopadhyay cuts through the complexity of Indian politics to assess the significance of the far right’s surprising electoral stumble.
Héctor Rivera discusses the meaning of Claudia Sheinbaum’s victory in Mexico and takes a critical look at the new regime in formation in Mexican politics.
A recap of the 2024 Turkish elections
by Hakan YilmazHakan Yilmaz reports on the electoral defeat of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (AKP) in last month’s Turkish municipal elections and argues that the Left’s victory hints at a completely new balance of forces in which movements from below can be revived.
David Renton argues the answer to Trump’s potential election is not to minimize the risk posed by Trump but to insist that our organizing is the only protection against the rise of authoritarianism in the United States and worldwide.
Tens of thousands of activists were inspired to join socialist Bernie Sanders’ campaigns for president in 2016 and 2020. Shamus Cooke reviews Bernie’s latest book and argues that the Sanders project of shifting the Democratic Party leftward has squandered the movement in a time of crisis and need.
An opportunity for the Left
by Kirstin RobertsKirstin Roberts argues that given the stark political choice, the broad mobilization of left and movement forces in support of Brandon Johnson, and the groundwork laid over the last decade by union and social struggles in Chicago, the elections offer real opportunities for socialists committed to political independence.
Harold Washington’s 1983 campaign redux?
by Joe AllenJoe Allen sets the Chicago mayoral election in historical context and argues that the choice on offer, however stark, also reflects the political limits of the strength of the Left and our (social and trade union) movements.