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...

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...

Toward Building a “New World”

by Victor Wallis | Nov 7, 2024 | Featured, From the Archives, Green Strategy, Green Theory | 1 comment

The aspiration to “build a new world within the shell of the old” has a long history. It is typically associated with the traditions of cooperativism and anarchism. But it is also part of the socialist/communist tradition, as articulated by Marx himself. Marx...

Socialists and the 2024 Elections

by Peter Solenberger | Nov 1, 2024 | Elections, Electoral Politics, Green Strategy | 0 comments

The polarization around the 2024 US elections creates tensions among socialists, as well as the general population. We have to discuss the elections, pose questions, and advance hypotheses, but we should be patient with each other in doing so. After the elections,...

From the Archives: Report Back from the 2023 Global Greens Congress

by Howie Hawkins | Oct 31, 2024 | From the Archives, Global Greens, Green Strategy | 0 comments

Fighting Radioactive Wastewater Dumping from New York to Fukushima I attended the Global Greens Congress in Incheon, South Korea, as an informal observer intending to interact with and learn from Greens around the world. Leading up to the Congress, I was asked by Tim...

How to Address the Understandable Critique re: “Socialism Failed”

by Steve Welzer | Oct 30, 2024 | Green Strategy | 0 comments

Thoughts a long-term vision and our immediate programmatic orientation The socialist movement dates back over 200 years. You might think that after the considerable debate during that time about public vs. private ownership and after the many attempts to actualize...