The following was drafted by, and adopted by, the editorial committee of “The Activist”. It has not been formally endorsed by the coordinating committee of the Young Democratic Socialists.
The 2008 United States presidential and congressional elections constituted a historic victory for progressive forces as we elected our first African-American president, Barack Hussein Obama, and […]
an excerpt from a larger Democracy Now interview
AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about just this latest news that came out last night—of course, not the official announcement, but Eric Holder, the former deputy attorney general under President Clinton, being tapped as the next attorney general, if confirmed?
CORNEL WEST: Well, two things. First, on a […]
By David Duhalde
Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it. Elders teach this saying to generations of children. My father taught me a story from his political activism to ingrain this concept into my mind. During Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity (UP) government in Chile, my dad told a fellow UP supporter […]
by Mark Steel
THE MOST common view of history is that it’s created by the personalities of a handful of important figures. So world events can be explained by the fact that Churchill was strong, or Henry VIII wanted a divorce, or Napoleon had a complex about being short; as if an era of revolution and […]
by Mumia Abu-Jamal
The count has been called and Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. has become the 44th President of the United States of America.
But, in truth, history will record him as #1 - the first African-American president.
It is undeniable that this is a singular political achievement, a work of impressive political skill, and (we must admit) […]
POST-ELECTION STATEMENT FROM COMRADE Q.
Dear Friends,
I regret to inform you that our initiative to encourage Nader voting in so-called “swing states” failed to garner much support from the American working class. Instead, in a terrible defeat for those of us struggling to build a revolutionary alternative to bourgeois politics, a significant majority of middle-to-low-income […]
He’s no Bernie Sanders or Dennis Kucinich, but Joe Biden is probably the best
the left could have hoped for Barack Obama to pick as his running mate. A Biden
pick means that the next Democratic White House will be relatively free from
significant influence by the center-right Democratic Leadership Council (DLC).
This would not have been true if […]
In an op-ed for the New York Times on August 17, Paul Krugman argued that “a hard-hitting populism . . . would give [Barack Obama] a landslide victory this year.” While it is inarguably true that a more passionate focus on the economy would bolster Obama’s campaign, is populism really the answer? Considering that CNN’s […]
