Featured Articles from New Green Horizons
Toward Building a “New World”
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)
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
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...
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...
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...
Howie Hawkins’ Dispatches from Europe #11: Socialists and Anarchists in Ukraine
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Toward Building a “New World”
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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...