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Category Archives: Electoral Strategy
Florida: The Biggest Bully on the Electoral Playground
My fair state has done it again. We are officially the biggest bully when it comes to voter intimidation and use of force, by any means necessary. Where else but in Florida do we get to have voting disrupted on … Continue reading
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What Will It Take to Bring Obama Home? Obama vs. The Left: There’s Enough Criticism To Go Around
This article is republished from Black Commentator with the author’s permission. In St. Louis, I remember vividly a community workshop put on by The Justice Institute to assess President Obama’s first 100 days. JI is a progressive organizing and training … Continue reading
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The Midterm Elections: A Socialist Perspective
Many of us awoke the morning of November 3rd to the crowing of mainstream media: it was, as they had predicted, a landslide victory for Republicans on this year’s midterm elections. Some pundits, even those on NPR, intimated that the … Continue reading
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Latinoamerica Unida: The significance of electoral victories in Latin America
I finally watched The Motorcycle Diaries. Maybe you've seen it too. It's that Focus Features indie where a very fresh-faced, hot, Gael Garcia Bernal-looking Che Guevara rides a shitty motorcycle through South America in 1945. Along the way he crashes … Continue reading
Savor The Victory, Get Right To Work
All summer and fall, Black trade unionists in New Jersey signed up new voters on streetcorners, in churches and in union meetings, at registration tables hung with posters reading “After All We Have Been Through…How DARE You NOT VOTE.” That … Continue reading
The Left’s Role in Engaging in the Elections and Defending the Vote
The Elections Arena: Wake up and Smell the Masses In this presidential election, voters will turn out in record numbers. Pennsylvania has reached a high of 8.6 million registered voters, and the Indiana voter rolls show more than 470,000 new … Continue reading
The Rev. Wright – Barack Obama Controversy
The revelations of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's remarks have unleashed a reactionary backlash that has many (virtually entirely white) people scornfully denouncing Rev. Wright as a racist, even though he is African American. This reaction has been used to reframe our … Continue reading
Doing Elections
Some recent controversy in connection with the statement on the US Presidential elections by Jamala Rogers posted on the FRSO website, along with a odd exchange that accompanied a piece that I wrote at The Black Commentator on the now-halted … Continue reading
The 2008 Electoral Dilemma
Every four years the Left finds itself in roughly the same situation. Having paid little sustained attention to building a progressive, mass, relevant electoral initiative, the Left is confronted with Presidential campaigns that are presented to it rather than campaigns … Continue reading
Reflections on the Venezuelan Election
Commentary by the National Executive Committee of FRSO/OSCL We have now had some days to digest the results of the Venezuelan election, and our committee would like to offer several thoughts as part of the larger movement summation of this … Continue reading
