The biggest losers in Brazil’s municipal elections on Sunday, 15 November 2020 were President Jair Bolsonaro and the far right. The traditional right is growing and the left remains alive, providing the biggest surprise in São Paulo, with the PSOL going through to the second round.
Trump’s slow coup? The crisis of bourgeois democracy
19 November 2020, byTens of thousands of Donald Trump supporters rallied in Washington, DC on November 14.
President Trump drove his motorcade through the marchers, expressing his support, on his way to Trump National golf course to play a round.
The mainly white crowd waved flags, sang the national anthem and called Democrat Joseph Biden’s election to the presidency a “theft”. Prominent signs read: “Stop the steal”.
The march began at Freedom Plaza then headed towards the US Supreme Court. The (...)
After 2019 Uprising, a new socialist formation and new political party, change the electoral game
18 November 2020, byAny attempt to address the electoral issue in Puerto Rico from a socialist perspective must begin by pointing out the limits of the electoral process in the island. It is important to recognize the broad restrictions that the colonial status imposes on the elaboration of a national policy. This limitation is stronger under the federally-appointed Fiscal Control Board, which oversees the fiscal policies of Puerto Rico’s government.
Trump Lost the Election, But What is the Future of Trump and Trumpism?
17 November 2020, by“In a historic shift, Republicans have become the party of the white working class. The task for the left will be to find a way to build a multi-ethnic working class movement to resist Trump and to pressure the neoliberal Biden.”
Spontaneous uprising in Nigeria
16 November 2020, by“The rage broke its way through.”
EU SURE initiative: saving jobs or pleasing investors?
15 November 2020, by ,When the European Commission finally realized that something serious was going on with corona, it launched, among other things, an initiative to support short-time work schemes, as Germany did as a reaction to the 2007/9 ‘financial crisis’. Similar measures were introduced in many EU countries at national level to cope with the economic and social effects of the pandemic.
On 2 April the EU launched SURE. The idea was that member states could take out cheap loans to financially support (...)
Dead ends and limits of progressive governments
14 November 2020, byWith the collapse of the USSR, the end of history was announced without delay. Nothing seemed to be able to stem the neoliberal global tidal wave, when the Zapatista uprising in Mexico erupted in 1994. Five years later, Chávez took power in Venezuela : it was the beginning of a long process of rupture, through the ballot box, on the Latin American continent - Lula in Brazil, Morales in Bolivia, Correa in Ecuador, Mujica in Uruguay… part of the Western radical left then turned its gaze, not without hope, to the other side of the South Atlantic. Two decades later, what balance sheet can we draw? Successes and limits, contradictions and specificities.
Women’s revolution after attack on reproductive rights
13 November 2020, by“In theory, women’s rights activists in small towns are the easiest to attack because they lack a large social and media base. They are already threatened with sentences of up to eight years in prison, dismissal or various forms of ostracism. But they are also strong people who, in these exceptional circumstances, can count on the solidarity of an unprecedented movement across Poland. It seems that one of the most important slogans of the rampant Polish revolution – “You will never go alone again” - this time finds its confirmation in reality.”
When calls for solidarity mask the steady advance of unpaid work
12 November 2020, byOn 16 March 2020, as France was about to put its population into lockdown, the Education Ministry posted a serious message on its website : “The exceptional nature of the health crisis spreading across our country calls for an exceptional level of commitment from each and every one of us”. A few days later, on 1 April, 250,000 French citizens had put themselves forward to join the newly created ‘civilian reserve’. The response to this appeal for a show of “goodwill” was not so much a (...)