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Toward Building a “New World”
by Victor Wallis | Nov 7, 2024
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...
Howie Hawkins’ Dispatches from Europe #1-7 (Georgia)
by Howie Hawkins | Nov 4, 2024
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party's 2020 Presidential candidate and a member of the New Green Horizons Editorial Board, is overseas in Europe meeting with Greens and independent socialists. As he travels through October and November, he is meeting activists and learning...
On the Lesser Evil – Elections and Ideology
by Rick Greenblatt | Oct 28, 2024
It will surely come as no surprise to readers that the US electoral system is, to use a polite expression, really messed up. Messed up, that is, if you believe that the system should represent the will of the people. There is no clearer example than the electoral...
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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...
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...
Howie Hawkins’ Dispatches from Europe #1-7 (Georgia)
by Howie Hawkins | Nov 4, 2024 | Featured, Howie Hawkins' Dispatches from Europe | 0 Comments
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party's 2020 Presidential candidate and a member of the New Green Horizons Editorial Board, is overseas in Europe meeting with Greens and independent socialists. As he travels through October and November, he is meeting activists and learning...
In Memoriam: Mel King
by New Green Horizons | Nov 3, 2024 | Green Party History, In Memoriam | 0 Comments
Mel King, Presente! Mel King died in March, 2023 at the age of 94. A lifelong resident of the South End neighborhood of Boston, he was active in creating community programs and institutions for low-income people in the city and was the founder of the South End...
Oregon Emerging as the Nation’s Trailblazer for Political Reform: Interview with Blair Bobier
by New Green Horizons | Nov 2, 2024 | Elections, Electoral Reform, Interview, Issues | 0 Comments
Interview with Blair Bobier by Steven Hill Oregon became the 33rd US state in 1859 and today is the ninth largest and 27th most populous state with 4.2 million people. In the last few years, the Beaver State has emerged as the nation’s leading trailblazer for...
A Brief History of the Green Party/Greens of Japan
by Richard Evanoff | Nov 1, 2024 | From the Archives, Global Greens, Green Party History | 0 Comments
Green political organizing in Japan began with the formation of the Japan Green Party and the Japan Green Federation in the mid-1980s, leading eventually to establishment of the Rainbow and Greens in 1998, a network which supported Green-mind candidates who ran as...
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...
New Jersey’s “Green 13” Slate of Candidates for 2024
by Steve Welzer, Renee Johnston | Oct 29, 2024 | Elections | 1 Comment
Critics who are uninformed often accuse the Green Party of doing little more than running presidential campaigns every four years. The truth is that over 5,000 Green candidates have contested for election at all levels since 1990 -- 38% for state and federal offices...
On the Lesser Evil – Elections and Ideology
by Rick Greenblatt | Oct 28, 2024 | Electoral Politics, Featured, Green Strategy | 3 Comments
It will surely come as no surprise to readers that the US electoral system is, to use a polite expression, really messed up. Messed up, that is, if you believe that the system should represent the will of the people. There is no clearer example than the electoral...
Welcome to New Green Horizons
by New Green Horizons | Oct 28, 2024 | Editorial Board | 1 Comment
The Green Party US is the largest national political party to the left of the corporate duopoly. Yet in spite of this, the Green Party struggles to realize its full potential to build the political power needed to effectuate its distinctive solutions to the serious...