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...
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...
Looking Backward to Go Forward
An address to the annual state convention of the South Carolina Green Party, May 14, 2011 A generation ago, America and the rest of the world found itself in un-charted territory. 1980 saw the birth of Solidarity. Founded in the shipyards of Gdansk, it stood as a...
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...
Howie Hawkins’ Dispatches from Europe, No. 15: Talking about U.S. Politics with Ukrainian Leftists
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...