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Last weekend’s speeches by President Obama in support of two Democratic gubernatorial candidates, one in Virginia and the other in New Jersey, once again demonstrated how much his voice matters in the all consuming struggle against Trump and MAGA.
Trump’s numbers in public opinion polls are under water and getting worse. And yet with the midterm elections coming into view, he plows ahead with no adjustments to his neofascist agenda that might reverse his sinking popularity. While there is…
Unlike the European experience where the communists and socialists comprised the leadership element of the popular front against fascism, the popular front (I prefer peoples coalition) here during the Depression years had at its core the Roosevelt administration and the…
In the mayor’s race for New York where the front runner is Zohran Mamdani, the Islamophobia from various quarters is ugly, pervasive, and unrelenting.
If red baiting is the last refuge of scoundrels, we see it once again as a rogue’s gallery including first of al Trump, Cuomo and billionaires, like former Mayor Mike Bloomberg, are rolling out red baiting to undercut Zohran Mamdani’s…