Democratic Party

Democrat Zohran Mamdani and Superman the Movie: Billionaire’s Debate Damage Control as U.S. Opinion Increasingly Rejects Zionist’s Palestine Genocide

August 3, 2025 UNAC Editor Democracy and Consent, Democrats and Republicans, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Socio-Economic Struggles, The War at Home, The Working Class, US Politics

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, July 25, 2025 As a teenage Superman fan of yesteryear, in the 1950s, I recall that Superman was described on radio as a “strange visitor from another planet.” I couldn’t resist going to my local Oakland movie theater to see the latest iteration starring David Corenswet as Superman. I was surprised. While the[…]

Bernie and AOC Sheepdog for the Democrats

March 26, 2025 UNAC Editor Democrats and Republicans, US Hypocrisy, US Politics, Weapons Sales, Zionism

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, March 26, 2025 Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are trying to re-engage disaffected voters who are rightly disengaged from the Democratic Party. Big rallies can’t hide the fact that the Fighting Oligarchy Tour leads misguided people right back to oligarchy. “Bernie Sanders is this election’s Democratic sheepdog. The sheepdog is a card[…]

An Arms Embargo on Israel is Not a Radical Idea — It’s the Law

September 2, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Colonialism, Imperial Wars, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine

by Youana Tchoukleva, published on Mondoweiss, August 31, 2024 As Israel launches its largest military assault in the West Bank in twenty years, I cannot stop thinking about the people I met in the occupied territory. I think of the mother in Jenin who was on the phone with her two sons seconds before their house was burned in an[…]

Is the Democratic Party the Alternative to Fascism, or its Enabler?

February 17, 2023 UNAC Editor Democrats and Republicans, Fascism

by Arjae Red, published on Workers World, February 9, 2023 The Jan. 6, 2021, failed attack on the U.S. Capitol exposed an attempt to overturn the presidential election results and made it undeniably clear that the Donald Trump-led MAGA movement represents a critically dangerous and growing threat of fascism in the U.S. But it left this question open: Can the[…]

The Solutions Are Obvious, But It Will Take A Revolution To Win Them

December 28, 2020 UNAC Editor Action!!, Resistance, US Politics

by Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance, December 13, 2020 The United States has reached a severe crisis point and the next few months will determine how we address it. The COVID-19 pandemic is raging across the country and some areas are struggling to provide enough hospital beds and staff to care for people. The recession is deepening as unemployment[…]

Freedom Rider: Iran and Endless War

June 22, 2019 UNAC Editor Iran, Middle East Wars

by Margaret Kimberley, Published on Black Agenda Report, June 19, 2019 Americans are, indeed, exceptional – the most gullible public in the world, always ready to believe their leaders’ lies. “The increasing closeness between China, Russia and their central Asian partners is a reaction to U.S. threats and aggressions.” The latest in the saga of the desperate empire is the[…]

Yes, Gov. Northam Should Resign – But He’s Not the Only Problem

February 10, 2019 UNAC Editor Political Corruption, Racism

Photo: Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s (D) page in his 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook. The page shows a picture, at right, of a person in blackface and another wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood. (Eastern Virginia Medical School/AP) by Phil Wilayto, Virginia Defenders, February 7, 2019 Yes, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam should resign. Immediately. No question. But progressives in[…]

As Support Grows to Extend Los Angeles Teacher Strike, Unions Colluding With Democrats to End Walkout

January 17, 2019 UNAC Editor Labor Struggles, Political Corruption

by Jerry White, from the World Socialist Website, January 16, 2019 Tens of thousands of Los Angeles teachers and their supporters manned picket lines and marched downtown yesterday on the second day of the strike by 33,000 educators in America’s second largest school district. The walkout has generated widespread public support and growing calls for the spreading of the strike[…]

Shut-out federal employees say: Stop the war on workers!

January 17, 2019 UNAC Editor Labor Struggles, Political Corruption, Racism, Refugees, Women

Photo: National Treasury Employees Union members rally in Washington, D.C., Jan. 10. by Kathy Durkin, from Workers World, January 15, 2019 “Stop the war on workers!” and “We want work, not walls!” read signs held by furloughed federal employees at the White House and in cities around the U.S. on Jan. 10. They were protesting the Trump administration’s shutdown of[…]

The Bizarre Facebook Path to Corporate Facism

August 9, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda

by Glen Ford, originally published on Black Agenda Report “The Facebook intervention is a qualitative escalation of the McCarthyite offensive.” Facebook has assumed additional political police powers, disrupting a planned counter-demonstration against white supremacists, set for August 12th in Washington, on the grounds that it was initiated and inspired by “Russians” as part of a Kremlin campaign to “sow dissension”[…]