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Where next now for the US left?

The US left is supporting Joe Biden

30 April 2023

International

Kamala Harris will prop up the US state

What role will vice president-elect Kamala Harris play in the new government?

09 November 2020

International

Celebrations at Trump’s defeat, but Biden is not the answer

People in the US and other parts of the world have protested against him from the moment he won four years ago. Now, he is on his way out.

08 November 2020

What We Think

Class struggle is the only alternative to an unfair system

The US political system is rotten and offers nothing to ordinary people. This is the main conclusion from this week’s election.

04 November 2020

International

The US left needs a new strategy

Most of the left backed Joe Biden’s campaign. Most groups abandoned their criticism of the Democrats and fell into step with their campaign.

04 November 2020

Background Check

Joe Biden’s coronation will not bring real change

As Democrats pick corporate favourite Joe Biden as their presidential candidate to face Donald Trump, Sophie Squire says hope lies outside the party machine

16 August 2020

News

Sanders wins most votes in Iowa with message of change

With all the votes counted in the Democratic caucus in Iowa, Bernie Sanders has won the highest number of votes.

06 February 2020

News

New York socialist vote shakes up the right wing

The victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a US Democratic Party internal election last week reflects a mood to resist Trump, writes Alistair Farrow

03 July 2018

International

New York victory shows we need to ‘organise to fight back’ says US socialist

Socialist Worker spoke to Sam Dean, a member of the Los Angeles branch of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). He said Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory can act as a focus for resistance.

29 June 2018

International

US activist speaks out about huge victory for socialists in New York

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat one of the US Democratic Party old guard, Joe Crowley, in an internal party election, a primary, earlier this week. She was endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, a social-democratic party with ties to the Democrats.

28 June 2018

News

Voting suppression in the US while Trump gives “alternative facts”

Millions were not allowed to vote in the US presidential elections. There is a long history of rigged elections and voter suppression and it's designed to target the working class.

24 January 2017

Alex Callinicos

Obama must take his share of blame

Barack Obama departs the US presidency amid a cloud of praise and nostalgia.

17 January 2017

International

US candidates exposed by their own words

Two of the least popular presidential candidates in US history had words they hoped would never be heard exposed in leaks last week.

11 October 2016

News

Old cronies reunite for presidential debate where everybody is the loser

Eleven years after Hillary Clinton sat in the front row at Donald Trump’s wedding, the two US presidential candidates met again for a debate on Monday night.

27 September 2016

Alex Callinicos

There is no ‘lesser evil’ in the US election

Now that Hillary Clinton has been confirmed as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate the usual arguments are being mobilised to brigade the left behind her. The most important one stresses not the positive qualities of the Democratic candidate but the negative qualities of their Republican opponent.

02 August 2016

International

The resistable rise of Donald Trump in US election

No sensible person can react with anything but horror to billionaire thug Donald Trump becoming the near-certain Republican candidate for US president.

05 May 2016

News

Sanders wins two out of three US states by big margins

BERNIE SANDERS won overwhelmingly two of the three states that voted yesterday, Tuesday, to choose the Democratic Party candidate for US president. Sanders, who calls himself a socialist, is still finding a big audience for his message that the political and economic system is broken and needs to change.

23 March 2016

International

International news round-up

Protests against Donald Trump in the US elections continue, as does Israel's brutal repression and violence against the Palestinians

22 March 2016

International

Socialist wins Seattle elections

Kshama Sawant became the first socialist in decades to win a seat on a US city council last week. She beat the Democratic candidate in Seattle who had been in the seat for 16 years.

19 November 2013

Socialist Review Archive

Why Obama won

Obama won a second term as US president despite his record. Here US socialist Eric Fretz argues he benefitted from a shift to the left in US society. But what are the prospects for the growth of movements from below that challenge big business and the two-party system?

01 December 2012

Socialist Review Archive

After Barack Obama’s historic victory, what’s next?

What will Barack Obama's presidency bring? That depends on the balance of forces argues Jonathan Neale.

01 December 2008

Socialist Review Archive

Barack Obama as president symbolises change

Barack Obama as president symbolises change and finally something I'd consider a revolutionary transformation.

01 December 2008

Socialist Review Archive

After the election

I was with an African American guy on the morning of the election; a thoughtful working class guy who must have been in his 50s. When I asked him what it felt like to come out from voting he started crying. Even he didn't know where it came from.

01 December 2008

Socialist Review Archive

Barack Obama and the working class

I always say that if Obama was delivered to the White House with Jesus Christ, a five-piece band and six gilded seraphims holding up his fucking balls he still won't be able to do anything because the country's broke and Congress is bought and sold.

01 December 2008

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