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A Political Paradox: A Progressive-Leaning Public Elects a Far-Right President
by Howie Hawkins | Feb 9, 2025
2Why did American voters, who by substantial majorities favor progressive economic, social, and international policies, elect a plutocratic, racist, America First jingoist as President? From an examination of election results, exit polls, and other public opinion...
Verde Por La Gente: How Latinos Are Moving Beyond The Democrats and Republicans
by Gabriel Medina | Nov 25, 2024
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
by Steve Welzer | Nov 18, 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...
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A Political Paradox: A Progressive-Leaning Public Elects a Far-Right President
by Howie Hawkins | Feb 9, 2025 | 2024 Election Analysis, Featured, Green Strategy, Issues | 0 Comments
2Why did American voters, who by substantial majorities favor progressive economic, social, and international policies, elect a plutocratic, racist, America First jingoist as President? From an examination of election results, exit polls, and other public opinion...
Howie Hawkins’ Dispatches from Europe, No. 15: Talking about U.S. Politics with Ukrainian Leftists
by Howie Hawkins | Feb 6, 2025 | Howie Hawkins' Dispatches from Europe | 0 Comments
On Saturday, November 9, I met with members of the democratic socialist organization Sotsialnyi Rukh in Kyiv. I gave a talk about U.S. politics, followed by discussion. I used the same notes for my talk in Kyiv that I would use for later meetings with the Kryvyi Rih...
Howie Hawkins’ Dispatches from Europe No. 14: Ukraine and Georgia Today: A Firsthand Report
by Howie Hawkins | Feb 2, 2025 | Howie Hawkins' Dispatches from Europe | 0 Comments
Solidarity Members’ and Friends’ Discussion with: Howie Hawkins, member of Solidarity, Green Party and Ukraine Solidarity Network Ilya Budraitskis, Russian activist and analyst now at University of California – BerkeleyClick here for an audio-only version. With...
Ecosocialism: What Is It and Why Do We Need It?
by Richard W. Franke | Jan 30, 2025 | Green Strategy | 0 Comments
Below are excerpts from a presentation to the panel: “How Environmental Justice/Sustainability Aligns with Political Transformation and Socialism” at Pratt Earth Action Week, April 2021. Ecosocialism: What Is It and Why Do We Need It? Richard W. Franke, Ph.D.,...
Howie Hawkins’ Dispatches from Europe #13: Yurii Samoilov, Miners Union Leader and Revolutionary Socialist
by Howie Hawkins | Jan 29, 2025 | Howie Hawkins' Dispatches from Europe | 0 Comments
On November 6, my hosts in Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement), a democratic socialist organization in Ukraine, arranged for me to meet with Yuriy Samoilov, a co-founder of Sotsialnyi Rukh, President of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine, and President of...
Statement of the 2024 Ecosocialism Conference
by Ecosocialism Conference 2024 | Jan 27, 2025 | Green Theory | 0 Comments
Editor’s Note: UK Ecosocialist Conference Manifesto Last December, over 150 people gathered at London's South Bank University to discuss and build an international ecosocialist movement. Among other things, the conference adopted this statement. Attendees also plan to...
The Potential of the Green Movement
by Howie Hawkins | Jan 23, 2025 | From the Archives, Green Strategy | 0 Comments
Editor's Note: This article is part of our From the Archives series, which posts relevant articles from the past, sourced from a wide range of sources. This article by 2020 Green Party and Socialist Party USA presidential nominee Howie Hawkins was originally published...
All We Really Need to Know We Learned in Kindergarten
by Steve Welzer | Jan 12, 2025 | Green Theory | 2 Comments
The most essential issues seem to be straightforwardly dichotomous . . . either/or. One is: Do you want to live in a class-divided society or a classless society? Consider: You’re in kindergarten. 25 kids. They each have distinctive personalities, of course. You...
A History of Deportation and Discrimination in Watsonville: Legacy, Impact, and Hope Amid Political Shifts
by Gabriel Medina | Jan 7, 2025 | Historical Analysis | 0 Comments
A historical look at Watsonville’s legacy of deportation and resilience, as new threats loom and local leadership rises to protect its immigrant communities. Watsonville, California, bears a history marked by resilience and struggle, particularly for its immigrant...
800K Votes for Jill Stein Should Be Somewhat Encouraging
by Steve Welzer | Dec 30, 2024 | 2024 Election Analysis | 0 Comments
Votes for alternative-party candidates get counted relatively slowly. Write-in votes get counted slowest of all (most likely a lot of them are either never counted or never reported). At the end of the process this year Jill Stein will wind up being credited with...
The Green Forecast for 2050: A Hopeful Essay
by Denise Brush | Dec 23, 2024 | 2024 Election Analysis, Green Strategy | 0 Comments
The U.S. President taking office in January 2025 will undoubtedly cause significant damage to the United States and to the Green Party pillars of peace, ecology, social justice and democracy over the next four years. The following essay is intended to inspire Greens...
Reflections on the 2024 Election and the Green Way Forward
by Rick Greenblatt | Dec 16, 2024 | 2024 Election Analysis, Green Strategy | 0 Comments
Introduction. Let’s be clear at the outset: 2024 was Kamala Harris’ and the Democratic Party’s election to lose, and they lost it decisively. Trump and the Republicans will shortly control the presidency, both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court and much of the...
Howie Hawkins’ Dispatches from Europe #12: Dispatches After the Election of Trump
by Howie Hawkins | Dec 4, 2024 | 2024 Election Analysis, Howie Hawkins' Dispatches from Europe, International Politics | 0 Comments
Dispatches After the Election of Trump My last dispatch was almost a month ago, on November 6, the day after Trump won the American presidential election. The main reason for the pause in dispatches is that my hosts in Ukraine, and then Poland, Germany, Czechia, and...
Resisting Trump: Howie Hawkins’ Response in the Workers’ Liberty Symposium
by Howie Hawkins | Dec 2, 2024 | 2024 Election Analysis | 0 Comments
The first thing we should do is understand why a majority of the 65% of eligible voters who actually cast ballots elected a far-right authoritarian by a narrow 51% to 48% margin. The American working and middle classes are angry at the economic precarity that the...
Edward Goldsmith: A Grandfather of the Green Politics Movement
by Steve Welzer | Nov 28, 2024 | Green Party History, In Memoriam | 0 Comments
Edward Goldsmith (1928-2009) was a seminal Green activist and theorist as the ferment of “the Sixties” galvanized the development of a distinctive new politics during the 1970s and 1980s. In England, Goldsmith’s 1972 treatise “A Blueprint for Survival” was a major...
Verde Por La Gente: How Latinos Are Moving Beyond The Democrats and Republicans
by Gabriel Medina | Nov 25, 2024 | 2024 Election Analysis, Featured | 1 Comment
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...
Safe States, Inside-Outside, and Other Liberal Illusions
by Howie Hawkins | Nov 21, 2024 | Electoral Politics, From the Archives, Green Strategy | 1 Comment
This article is part of our From the Archives Series, in which we repost past articles that still have relevance today. Originally Published in CounterPunch on May 10, 2016. Bernie Sanders is on his way to an endorsement of Hillary Clinton, the candidate of War, Wall...
The Greens and the Broad Alternative Vote in 2024
by Steve Welzer | Nov 18, 2024 | 2024 Election Analysis, Elections, Electoral Politics, Featured | 1 Comment
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...
Howie Hawkins’ Dispatches from Europe #11: Socialists and Anarchists in Ukraine
by Howie Hawkins | Nov 15, 2024 | Howie Hawkins' Dispatches from Europe | 0 Comments
Socialists and Anarchists in Ukraine The nonsense coming from Russian propaganda and its campist echo chambers online in the West claiming that all opposition to the Zelensky government in Ukraine is banned and persecuted is belied by the very active anti-capitalist...
From the Archives: Alienated, Not Apathetic: Why Workers Don’t Vote
by Howie Hawkins | Nov 14, 2024 | From the Archives, Green Strategy | 0 Comments
Editor's Note: This article was originally published in August of 2019 by 2020 Green Party presidential nominee Howie Hawkins, while on his first campaign tour of the 2020 campaign. As we come out of an election year and reorient towards the future, it is important...
Howie Hawkins’ Dispatches from Europe #10: Election Reflections
by Howie Hawkins | Nov 12, 2024 | Elections, Howie Hawkins' Dispatches from Europe | 1 Comment
Election Reflections People in Ukraine were following the U.S. presidential election more intensely than most Americans. The future of their country might be at stake. Would Harris continue Biden’s miserly drip feed of ammunition and weapons to defend against Russia’s...
An Interview with Ron Daniels of the National African-American Reparations Committee
by New Green Horizons | Nov 11, 2024 | Interview, Issues | 0 Comments
This is the transcript of an interview of Ron Daniels, Convener of the National African-American Reparations Commission, for a discussion about the case, form, and strategy of reparations in the US. The interview was recorded on 10/12/24 on Howie Hawkins' weekly Green...
Howie Hawkins’ Dispatches from Europe #9: Svitlana Romanko on Defunding Russia’s Fossil-Fueled Military Machine
by Howie Hawkins | Nov 9, 2024 | Climate Action, Howie Hawkins' Dispatches from Europe | 0 Comments
https://youtu.be/6fwzm2-m2zQ Svitlana Romanko is the Executive Director of Razom We Stand, a Ukrainian climate justice organization focused on ending fossil-fueled conflicts and climate chaos and driving the clean energy revolution in Ukraine and globally. Before...
Howie Hawkins’ Dispatches from Europe #8: European Left Alliance for the People and the Planet
by Howie Hawkins | Nov 8, 2024 | Howie Hawkins' Dispatches from Europe | 0 Comments
I arrived in Kyiv on the afternoon of November 2 to the sound of air raid sirens. The air raid warnings had been going on all day. They come by phone once you get the Air Alert app, which is one of the first things my hosts had me do. Now my phone screen is covered...