Featured Articles from New Green Horizons
A Political Paradox: A Progressive-Leaning Public Elects a Far-Right President
Originally posted in New Politics Winter 2025 (New Politics Vol. XX No. 2, Whole Number 78) and online at at https://newpol.org/issue_post/a-political-paradox/2Why did American voters, who by substantial majorities favor progressive economic, social, and international...
Verde Por La Gente: How Latinos Are Moving Beyond The Democrats and Republicans
An in-depth critique of how mainstream media distorts Latino political behavior and why disenfranchised voters are seeking alternatives beyond establishment politics. The narrative around Kamala Harris’s struggle with Latino voters, particularly Latino men, reveals a...
The Greens and the Broad Alternative Vote in 2024
As of today we don’t have full vote totals in New Jersey. In some of the districts they’ve only counted 90% of the votes. Ultimately, it looks like it will be recorded that almost 50,000 voters will have cast a vote for one or another Green Party candidate in our...
Lessons From Leftist Pandemic Disinterest Toward Rebuilding Public Health
In 2022-2023, the Biden administration rapidly dismantled the emergency social safety nets put in place during the early COVID-19 pandemic. Biden officials declared the pandemic to be over despite objections from experts, backpedaled from vaccine and mandate policy to...
A Response to Rick Greenblatt
This article is a response to Rick Greenblatt's "Planetary Problems Require Planetary Solutions," which is part of a Green Strategy Debate series. With the emergence of large corporate enterprises during the nineteenth century it became apparent that these economic...
A Response to Steve Welzer
Introduction This essay is written as a critical yet comradely reply to Steve Welzer’s post in New Green Horizons, “Notice how different this paradigm is.” [1] Grounded in a Marxian, ecosocialist perspective, I consider some cornerstones of Steve’s positions,...
Water for Palestine
The Australian Government has finally decided to recognize Palestine, following a groundswell of protests and support throughout the community. However, real change is still needed on the ground right now. The death toll in Gaza since October 2023 now devastatingly...
Mapping the Conservative Left: Why Some Socialists Sound Like the Right
The rise of the far-right across Europe and North America has prompted urgent soul-searching on the left. From Trump's return to power to the growth of Alternative for Germany (AfD), from Giorgia Meloni's ascendancy in Italy to the surge of Reform UK, reactionary...
Complicity Is Bipartisan: How Both Parties Enabled the Destruction of Gaza
By early 2025, the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza had become undeniable. Entire neighborhoods leveled. Tens of thousands dead. Children starving. And through it all, the United States – the self-declared leader of the free world – was not only complicit but...
The Green New Deal and the Right to a Job
Editor’s Note: This article is a lightly edited transcript of a speech given by Howie Hawkins as the 2015 Green Party State of the Union Response on January 20, 2015. Howie Hawkins was the Green Party of the United States candidate for President in 2020. The signature...
Notice how different this paradigm is
Editors' Note: This article presents one view on a Green Party vision for the future, as part of a friendly debate. Please read Planetary Problems Require Planetary Solutions by Rick Greenblatt for a differing view. The Editors would love to hear your feedback on...
Planetary Problems Require Planetary Solutions
Editors' Note: This article presents one view on a Green Party vision for the future, as part of a friendly debate. Please read Notice how different this paradigm is by Steve Welzer for a differing view. The Editors would love to hear your feedback on both!...
Remembering David Schwartzman, Ecosocialist Climate Scientist and Green Party Activist
I was shocked when I heard that David Schwartzman had passed away from cancer on July 1. I had been corresponding with him in the preceding days and weeks about how we should organize to defeat Trumpist neofascism and about the upcoming COP30 Climate Summit in Belém,...
Recommended Reading: Listen, Marxist!
[Click Here to Read "Listen, Marxist!" by Murray Bookchin] I wrote the introduction to Listen, Marxist! that follows below for a 1988 reprint edition distributed by the Left Green Network in the early years of the American Green Party movement. We organized the Left...
Interview with Carla Denyer, a co-leader of the UK Green Party
The Green Party of England and Wales had notable success in the local-council elections held on May 1. Party co-leader Carla Denyer (a Member of Parliament) said: “The Green Party has broken new records by increasing our number of councilors for the eighth year...
Independent Political Action Under Trump: Build Up from Local Bases
A far-right President was elected in 2024 despite a strong majority of Americans supporting progressive economic and social policies. How can we begin to cohere this progressive majority into a winning political force under the Trump administration? I will argue here...
Towards a Green Party for Ecosocialism
Introduction Capitalist domination of the world system poses existential threats to the world’s people, including the climate crisis and the threat of thermonuclear war . In this article, I consider the ideological role that ecosocialism can play in contributing to...
Green Politics and the Idea of Liberation through “Building the New within the Shell of the Old”
Premise: Concentrated capital is a social asset and it should be socialized. But that should be viewed as a systemic reform; the idea it will end class division is short-sighted. The key to liberation involves a deep green transformation of society. * * * * We know...
Confronting Elitism, Exclusion, and Reactionary Suppression Within the Left
In every revolutionary movement, there are forces pulling in two directions—those trying to build, and those unconsciously (or deliberately) working to dismantle. Within the Green Party and the broader left, we face a growing contradiction: we speak the language of...
Fly Over Lives Matter
Analysis of the 2016 presidential election (appeared in Green Horizon Spring 2017) Hillary Clinton didn’t do poorly on November 8. She won the popular vote by more than two million. She had large margins in the states where she was expected to do well. She lost by a...
May Day is Red and Green
May Day, or International Workers Day, is celebrated with marches and rallies every May 1 to lift up the working people and their demands for freedom, equality, and justice. That is the Red tradition of May Day. But there is also an older Green tradition in which...
Working Class Hero
"When Louis Napoleon III vaulted to a throne by perjury and treason, ...the sovereign princes and aristocracies of Europe, the great landowners, manufacturers, rentiers and stockjobbers, almost to a man, exulted in his success as their own. 'The crimes are his', was...
An Ecosocialist Perspective on Resisting Trump
Introduction We are living through a period defined in large part by the growing political dominance of the far right internationally. In the U.S., we experience this as the rise of Trump and MAGA. In this essay, I first identify several factors that have facilitated...
Reflections Regarding the Workers Strike Back Organizing Conference
Workers Strike Back held a public conference on February 22 in Seattle followed by an in-person-only convention for members on February 23: https://www.workersstrikeback.org/ Kshama Sawant has taken the lead in trying to organize a new independent working-class party....
Howie Hawkins’ Dispatches from Europe, No. 16: The Class-Conscious Workers of Kryvyi Rih
Meeting and discussion in the Kyrvyi Rih storefront of Sotsialnky Rukh. Dionysii Vynohradiv is sitting in front with me providing translations between Ukrainian and English. The screen shows what was being broadcast online to viewers around Ukraine. The...
Russia Is Imperialist, Too
Few on the American left would dispute that the U.S. is an imperialist power. But some will not support popular struggles for social and national liberation against oppressive states that are not the U.S or in its camp of allies. These “campists” take sides between...
Anti-Imperialism and Ecosocialist Internationalism
- On the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine - Introduction The ideological discourse of anti-imperialism plays a prominent role within the left, both internationally and within the US, including within the Green Party US. In this essay, I consider...