Tag: Elections
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After the blue tsunami
The Tempest National Committee argues that following the 2026 U.S. midterm elections, the massive defeat of Trump and the Republican Party creates an important political opening, but one that will not be met by any strategy centered on electoral politics within the Democratic Party.
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The Courts & Politicians Have Failed Us
Legal rallies and marches like here today have their place. They allow us to communicate and solidarize with each other. They allow new people to join our movement and meet each other so that they can do further, more valuable work in the future. However, as Andy Thayer points out, we need more!
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Far-right surges, but left surprises, in German elections
Sean Larson analyses the outcome of last month’s German elections.
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Not showing up for Harris
With a focus on the supposed shift toward Trump in New York City, BC Hamilton argues that the real story of the election was a lack of motivation to vote for status-quo politics.
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Trump vs Harris: how did the U.S.A. get here?
David Camfield interviews Tempest’s Aaron Amaral about the 2024 U.S. presidential election, the development of the two-party system, and the history and possibility of mass challenges from below for an episode of podcast Victor’s Children. What follows is a transcript of that interview, edited for length and clarity.
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When the circus leaves town
The Tempest National Committee argues that while there is little to nothing that the socialist movement can do now to challenge the right-wing visions on offer in the 2024 U.S. elections, a serious reckoning with how we got here and the post-election tasks of the Left is critical to raising our collective horizons beyond the…
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Block, squander, disorganize?
Ashley Smith responds to Max Elbaum’s overheated polemic on the question of strategy for socialists in the 2024 elections.
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U.S. politics today
Ashley Smith discusses the U.S. presidential election and the limitations of lesser-evilism.
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Lesser-evilism is not a vote–it’s a strategy
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.
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Modi’s electoral setback
Kunal Chattopadhyay cuts through the complexity of Indian politics to assess the significance of the far right’s surprising electoral stumble.