elections

As of this writing, the election results are not clear, but once again billions of …

November 1, 2022, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the New …

Lula da Silva won a slight victory over Bolsonaro in Brazil’s presidential election. …

Watch out! The new term of the Supreme Court began at the start of October. …

This is a translation of an article by Rafael Santos of the Partido Obrero (Workers’ …

The following article is translated from French from the website Convergences Revolutionnaires, organ of our …

Democrats are spending money on ads highlighting far-right Republican primary candidates, hoping that they will be easier to defeat in the general elections. …

June 20, 2022, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the New …

Colombia narrowly elected Gustavo Petro, a leftist, as its next president. …

This is the June 6, 2022 Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of L’étincelle, fraction of …

Macron was re-elected despite his unpopularity, because Le Pen was even worse. …

The presidential elections will take place on April 10 and 24. There are twelve candidates in the running. Twelve? Yes, it is a tradition in France to have many candidates competing in the elections, even if they have no chance to be elected. …

An analysis of the victory of the Chilean political situation after the election of Gabriel Boric. …

In the recent election in Chile, Gabriel Boric has defeated the right-wing candidate, but does not represent the working class. …

December 6, 2021, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the NPA, Translated from French …

The following is a diary the last days of the campaign of Argentinian revolutionary socialist group, Partido Obrero (Workers Party). …

Gerrymandering has drawn the attention of the mainstream media, as dozens of counties and states – many (but not all) currently led by Republican legislatures and officials – work to redraw election maps to the benefit of their party. …

Argentina’s recent legislative elections were marked by the defeat of the coalition in power, and popular anger that was partly expressed through the candidates of the Trotskyist far-left. …

This is an article written by the Partido Obrero (Workers’ Party), a Trotskyist organization in …

The main organizers behind the effort to recall Governor Newsom in California want us to …

The government is hesitating because it is caught between two fires – the need to show its electorate and the bosses that it is taking back the initiative, and the fear of reigniting a dynamite stick – social struggles. The abstention disrupted their well-oiled electoral system. But it will soon be forgotten. …

The Democrats failed to pass a voting reform bill – but even if they did, it wouldn’t have addressed big money choosing the candidates. …

Voters in France show who they support in the regional elections: none of the above! …

Racist attacks on voting rights need to be opposed. …

The Republicans in Georgia and elsewhere are engaged in a thinly-disguised attempt to prevent Black people from voting. Although voting is insufficient to solve our problems, we must oppose this racist attack on our civil rights. …

The pressures of this period are building across the U.S. and around the world. But the capitalist system that is responsible for the crisis remains. This virus has united us in many ways. It has given us a picture of the future capitalism holds out to us. And it isn’t a future that we can accept. …

On January 20, it was hard not to feel anxious. Would Trump really leave? Would …

The Georgia senate runoff election was the most expensive senate election in U.S. history. Does all that money spent benefit the average person? …

The United States may present the illusion of democracy, but its election system is set up to favor the rich. There was no real democracy to be stolen. …

On January 6, while Congress was reviewing the November election results, Trump held a rally …

For hours, politicians and news pundits expressed their shock and surprise after Trump supporters pushed …

Both parties protect the big business system …

This pandemic has drawn the priorities of this society into focus, and they are neither our well-being nor the health of the planet. And with the elections over, working people still face the continued threat of this virus, a planet that continues to heat up, increasing economic uncertainty, a wave of cuts to social services, and more. …

With tensions rising between mainland China and Taiwan, many Taiwanese supported Trump’s re-election. …

The United States’ electoral system is hardly democratic. This is not an accident. …

Many are celebrating what is hoped to be the end of Trump’s presidency. And many …

Trump and Biden may have their differences, but they both defend this system of capitalism, which profits off the labor of working people and is responsible for the problems we face today. …

The elections campaigns have cost an enormous amount of money, which could have been spent on things that actually benefit us. …

The made-for-TV conventions of the Democratic and Republican parties were held to convince us to vote for them. …

Joe Biden has a solution to the problem of police violence: shoot Black people in the legs instead! …