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Advancing Our Own Politics in 2024: For Socialist Support of the Green Party

Howie Hawkins — 2024-08-09T11:44:07Z

As socialists how should we approach the 2024 presidential election? The two major parties, ideologically capitalist to their cores, present us with a choice between a neoliberal corporate militarist and a neofascist criminal maniac.

- Features / United States (USA)

Which Green New Deal?

Howie Hawkins — 2019-11-01T09:46:10Z

As a candidate for the Green Party 2020 nomination for president, I released a Budget for an Ecosocialist Green New Deal during the Global Climate Strike, September 20-27, 2019. Our bottom line is that a ten-year, $27.5 trillion public investment in a Green Economy Reconstruction Program is needed to zero out greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 across all sectors of the economy: electric power, manufacturing, agriculture, transportation and buildings.

- IV538 - November 2019 / United States (USA), Ecology and the Environment, Climate

Should the Green Party Stand Down in 2020?

Howie Hawkins — 2019-05-13T08:57:12Z

We can expect much commentary on why the socialist left should unite behind the Democrats in 2020 to get rid of the dreaded Trump. The Green Party will be told to stand down in the 2020 presidential campaign.

- IV532 - May 2019 / United States (USA)

Progressive Democrats Have Little Power Without an Independent Left

Howie Hawkins — 2017-11-15T10:33:24Z

Stephanie Luce [1] asks why did Cuomo shift leftward after the 2014 gubernatorial election in New York? Her answer is that progressives working inside the Democratic Party – Working Families Party, Zephyr Teachout, Bernie Sanders, Fight for $15 demos organized by Democratic Party-oriented unions – changed the political landscape and forced Cuomo to move left to recover the left wing of his electoral base.

- IV514 - November 2017 / United States (USA)

The Green Party After the Election

Howie Hawkins — 2017-01-05T23:28:48Z

THE POLITICAL DYNAMIC augured well for a progressive third party challenge in 2016. With the two most unpopular major party candidates in history, and a large progressive vote mobilized for Sanders in the Democratic primaries, hopes were high that the Greens could do much better, perhaps reaching five percent or more to secure general election federal funding for the 2020 Green presidential campaign.

- IV504 - January 2017 / United States (USA)

Only the Privileged Can Afford Hillary Clinton – “A vote for Jill Stein is not a wasted vote”!

Howie Hawkins — 2016-11-07T06:31:45Z

It's that time again in the presidential election cycle when the scolds of institutionalized liberalism are out in force to bully people into voting for the perennial corporate Democrat in order to stop the perennially worse corporate Republican. Paul Krugman. Robert Reich. Ben Jealous. Dan Savage. Michael Moore. Joy Reid. Bernie Sanders. Tom Toles. In These Times. The Nation. The Root. Daily Kos. Rolling Stone. The New York Times.

- IV502 - November 2016 / United States (USA)

Time for an Independent Party

Howie Hawkins — 2016-07-06T15:47:11Z

The perennial dream on the left of a mass breakaway of progressives from the Democrats to a left third party has been stillborn since the days of Eugene Debs, who made this appeal to progressive Democrats in 1904:

- IV498 - July 2016 / United States (USA)

Jill Stein Campaign Needs Support Now

Howie Hawkins — 2015-09-17T15:14:44Z

While socialists debate how to relate to the many thousands of progressives attracted to Bernie Sanders' campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, the most viable independent left alternative for 2016 needs support from socialists now. The Green Party and its leading presidential candidate, Jill Stein, are best positioned to secure state ballot lines across the country to provide a credible alternative to the candidates of the two major capitalist parties in 2016. What is needed now are (1) donations to the Stein campaign to help with ballot access drives now in 2015 and (2) help petitioning in the states where the Green Party does not yet have a ballot line secured for 2016.

- IV488 - September 2015 / United States (USA)