(05.09.2022)
Who agrees? @jeremycorbyn
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Please can Jeremy Corbyn turn the Peace and Justice project into a party and take on the absolute cesspit that is British politics.
Who agrees? @jeremycorbyn
Could a third-party candidate win the White House in 2024? Paleologos on the poll
(July 28, 2022)
Voters on both sides of the aisle–especially those in the middle–are all screaming loudly. Sixty-nine percent of independents would like to see three or more parties in the United States. Among registered voters who said they would vote for former President Donald Trump in 2024, 49% would still like to see three or more parties. Among registered voters who said they would vote for President Joe Biden in 2024, 67% would like 3 or more parties.
Slowly but surely…
Jimmy Dore is considering running for president. He could win.
(14.06.2022)
Through his show, Jimmy has consistently lead and been right on issues like RussiaGate, the chemical attack in Syria, the DNC rigging a second election against Bernie, the CARES Act bailout for Wall Street, Covid vaccine mandates and lockdowns, Bernie’s spinelessness, the Squad’s careerism, and the need for a major new populist party free of corporate money.
His #ForceTheVote campaign reshaped US politics by exposing that even progressives like AOC are quickly corrupted by the Democratic Party. The People’s Party was the only major national organization to partner with Jimmy and demand a floor vote on Medicare for All in the middle of the pandemic.
When Jimmy asked him about running on the show, Chris Hedges said the media would dredge up something he said or did, or allegedly said or did, and use it to attack him endlessly. He’s right, they would do this to any independent populist who truly challenges the corporate state, but as Ralph pointed out, we’re in a very different political and media age from when he ran in 2000.
We’ve been through two great recessions and a pandemic that were used to crush us and create super billionaires. People are working more, making less, and living worse. Faith in institutions has collapsed across society, including the major parties, the media, big business, the banks, the courts, and schools. Trust in government is at historic lows. The number of independents is at record highs. And a majority of Americans want a major new party and an independent candidate for president.
Nearly 60 per cent of US voters would back independent candidate over Biden or Trump, poll finds
(Tuesday 26 April 2022)
According to a newly-released survey of 1,966 registered voters conducted by Harvard University’s Centre for American Political Studies and Harris Poll, 58 per cent of respondents — including 47 per cent of Republicans, 60 per cent of Democrats, and 71 per cent of registered independents — said they would consider a “moderate independent candidate” in the 2024 election if faced with a repeat of the choice they were presented with in November 2020.
Virginia People’s Party Announces Ballot Access
(December 30, 2021)
Recent polling by Gallup has found that nearly two-thirds of voters believe we need a new major political party in order to adequately represent the needs of the American people. The platform of the People’s Party includes policies with broad working-class support, such as universal healthcare, student debt relief, housing for all, environmental justice, and supporting workers’ right to organize.
Florida News! Register for Peoples Party
This is HUGE news as we can now support candidates to run to fight the duopoly as People’s Party candidates in the Sunshine State. Florida is a state that moves the country politically with more than 14 Million voters, a quarter of those are already registered as unaffiliated and surveys show that millions more are seeking out a better party. This is a significant and exciting development in the building of a major new party across the country.
Nadhim has this morning confirmed vaccine passports will start at the end of the month. Previously he said “Mandating vaccination is DISCRIMINATORY and COMPLETELY WRONG… we have absolutely no plans for vaccine passports” What changed @nadhimzahawi ?
• 30,000 members in 10 Days • The United Australia Party is well on way to being Australia’s biggest political party UNITED WE STAND as a major political force Freedom over Fear Liberty over Lockdowns Choice over Coercion Come & JOIN us
People’s Party National Organizing Committee: Election, Membership and Procedures
Over the past four years, thousands of people across the country have come together in a historic movement to build a major new political party free of corporate money. Now we’re incredibly proud to have reached a major milestone in the growth and development of the People’s Party: the formation of a representative National Organizing Committee charged with forming the rules for the People’s Party National Committee.
The National Organizing Committee is an interim representative body that will be seated prior to the formation of the National Committee. Once elected, the National Committee will take the place of the National Coordinators’ Circle as the leadership body of the National People’s Party.
CPAC: Trump rules out new political party in speech to conservatives
His appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando on Sunday represents his continued influence over the Republican Party.
The mood of the conference – which began on Thursday – has been extremely pro-Trump, with loyalists including Texas Senator Ted Cruz and his son Donald Trump Jr among the speakers.
Never has the opening for a major new party been more apparent; a record 62% want a third party and a new high of 50% identify as independents.
62 percent say third political party is needed in US
Nearly two-thirds of Americans say the U.S. needs a third major political party because the GOP and Democratic Party „do such a poor job representing the American people,“ according to a new Gallup poll.
In the survey released Monday, 62 percent of Americans said the third party was needed, while 33 percent said the two existing major parties do an „adequate“ job representing the majority of Americans‘ political views.
House PROGRESSIVES just reelected Nancy Pelosi. Only corporate Democrats voted against her. #ForceTheVote was our best chance for a House vote on Medicare for all. The Democratic Party cannot be reformed. It’s time for a #PeoplesParty!
Israel Election Polls: Tel Aviv Mayor Gains Ground, Gantz Grazing Threshold
(30.12.2020)
Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn left the slate on Tuesday to join Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai’s party, and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi announced on Wednesday afternoon that he will not be running with Kahol Lavan in the upcoming election.
After Huldai announced that he is running for Knesset on Tuesday, his Hayisraelim party is projected to win eight to nine parliamentary seats.
Gantz: Nissenkorn stabbed me in the back
(01.01.2021)
In a weekend interview with Yediot Aharonot, Gantz said „I felt him stabbing me in the back and turning the knife.“
Nissenkorn, whose resignation took effect Friday morning, wrote on Facebook afterward that Gantz made „crazy concessions“ that would have emptied the justice minister post of authority in an effort to keep the government together.
After joining Huldai, Nissenkorn resigns as justice minister
(30.12.2020)
After leaving Blue & White and joining Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai’s new The Israelis party, Avi Nissenkorn Wednesday resigned from his position as justice minister.
Susan Sarandon, Rose McGowan, Justin Jackson Join New People’s Party Advisory Council
Joining the Advisory Council are labor leaders, nonprofit leaders, students, scientists, artists, commentators, and elected officials including:
– Amaya Wangeshi — Founder of Beyond Bernie, former volunteer national high school director Bernie 2020
– Chase Iron Eyes — Co-founder of the Last Real Indians
– Cheng-Sim Lim — Board member of Healthcare for All LA, national Bernie Delegate
– Chris Smalls — Founder of The Congress of Essential Workers, led national-reported Amazon warehouse walkout
– Dr. Cornel West — Public intellectual, Harvard professor, author, co-host of The Tight Rope Podcast
– Eleanor Goldfield — Activist, singer, writer, host of Act Out!, creator of Art Killing Apathy
– Eynelys García — Host of the Eynelys Show and YRLA
– Jimmy Dore — Host of The Jimmy Dore Show, host of several Comedy Central Specials, political comedian
– Justin Jackson — NFL running back, LA Chargers
– Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap — National Director, Move to Amend
– Maebe A Girl — Silver Lake Councilwoman, first drag queen elected to public office in the U.S.
– Medea Benjamin — Co-founder of Code Pink
– Mike McCorkle — Former chair of the Progressive Democrats of Colorado, lawyer, national Bernie delegate
– Rep. Mike Sylvester — Maine State Representative, endorsed by DSA
– Omar Fernandez — President of the American Postal Workers Union of VT, executive council member of the VT AFL-CIO
– Dr. Peter Kalmus — Climate scientist, author, Bernie 2020 surrogate
– Ron Placone — Host of Get Your News on with Ron, political comedian
– Rose McGowan — Cultural Resetter, Time Magazine Person of the Year, founder of the Rose Army, NYT bestselling author
– Ryan Knight — Host of the Amped Up Podcast, Medicare for all advocate
– Susan Sarandon — Academy-award winning Actress, nominated for nine Golden Globes, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, activist
Gideon Sa’ar’s Party Would Be Second Largest in Knesset, Election Poll Shows
A poll released by Channel 12 News Tuesday shows the party led by former Likud lawmaker Gideon Sa’ar surging ahead to become Israel’s second largest party, were elections held now.
The party led by Sa’ar, a rival of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, would garner 21 seats, trailing Likud by just six seats.
Gideon Sa’ar Just Paid a High Price in Future Battle Against Netanyahu, but It’ll Be Worth It
There was some nervousness over the weekend at the Balfour Street residence. Someone close to the royals, employed in a very rewarding job at the Prime Minister’s Office as a “consultant on the outbreak of the coronavirus,” had written an article. Its convoluted thesis was that the deserter Gideon Sa’ar was leading a move which has party, community and governmental implications, aimed at turning back the 1977 overthrow of the long-reigning Labor Party by Likud.
The Master Plan: Clone Likud Without Bibi and His Sycophants
For several months the prime minister’s rival has been secretly spinning his web. Each week more advisers, lawmakers, mayors, key activists joined the secret circle
Gideon Sa’ar, Netanyahu Rival, Breaks With Likud to Start New Party
Other Potential candidates to join Sa’ar’s new party are lawmakers Yifat Shasha-Biton of Likud and former Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot.
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We are so excited to announce that we have an official party name! Party popper White heavy check mark Thousands of you voted using our ranked-choice ballot and the results are in! After four years of movement building, next month we will register in our first state as the People’s Party!!!
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We can no longer trust the @GOP and @DNC to do what’s right for the American People. Join #PeoplesParty and together we can #BreakTheDuopoly and free The People from the #CorporatePartySystem. Get involved now
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Labour can never coexist while these centrist bastards remain, we need a new party and leave them to it. And something to remember. If there’s a party on the left threatening success, Tory voters will cling to the Tory Party even more, Starmer will never attract them
Labour is dead. Time for a new party.
Too late I’ve already left. If Starmer kicks Corbyn out it would actually be a good thing because we could organise a new party based on real Labour values with socialist anti imperial ideals.
Progressive giant Henry Wallace in 1948: “Both parties are the champions of big business. The Republican party admits it. The Democratic party attempts to conceal it.” 72 years later and the Democrats are still a corporatist party and y’all think you can move them left.
New People’s Party Rises Amid Grim Election Options
(31.08.2020)
In a surreal year that has spiraled from surging hopes for a Bernie Sanders presidency to today’s pandemic-hemmed fear and a tight election between centrist Democrats and fascistic Republicans, now may be just the right time for a new political party.
As voters face a dismal “lesser of two evils” election in which a Biden/Harris ticket represents the only alternative to four more years of Trumpian fascism and racism, the Movement for a People’s Party aims to prevent such dreary and sparse choices in the future.
Barack Obama himself said Nixon was more liberal than he was and he is right. The Democratic party has moved so far right over the last 40 years that we now have two right-wing corporatist parties in America. The duopoly is killing us.
Danny Glover, Chris Hedges and Former Democratic Congressional Candidates to Speak at The People’s Convention
Award-winning actor and activist Danny Glover and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges will speak at The People’s Convention on August 30 from 4-7 p.m. Eastern Time. They will be joined by two former Democratic Congressional candidates from New York, Lauren Ashcraft and Isiah James. Also joining are the Host of Act Out Eleanor Goldfield and leading basic income expert Scott Santens.
Three days y’all, three days…#PeoplesConvention
EXCLUSIVE: Cornel West On Whether The Left Should Stick With Dem Party Or Make A Clean BREAK
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T minus five days…#PeoplesConvention
MOVEMENT FOR A PEOPLE’S PARTY PEOPLE’S CONVENTION, 2020, August 30
One week after the Democratic and Republican national conventions, people from all walks of life will come together to discuss the state of the nation and plans to form a major new political party in America. A party free of corporate money and influence. A people’s party.
Join us on Sunday, August 30, from 4-6 pm Eastern Time for The People’s Convention.
The Convention will be digital and broadcast live to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter pages with well over a million subscribers and followers. Sign up for more information and updates.
Last week was the Republican convention, this week is Trump’s convention, and Sunday is the PeoplesConvention.org.
In exactly one week…#PeoplesConvention
Speakers at the @4aPeoplesParty convention:
@CornelWest
@ninaturner
@GravelInstitute
@marwilliamson
@ProudSocialist
@jimmy_dore
This line up has me fired up!
This is the party that represents me
Mark your calendars: August 30th!
I now officially hate Democrats more than I hate republicans. While it won’t convince me to vote for Trump, their behavior will surely convince many others to do it. The only way to change anything is to destroy the party. There’s no other way. It has to fall.
Marianne Williamson is back — to talk about forming a third party
Self-help author Marianne Williamson and former Sen. Mike Gravel — left-wing contenders who ran for the White House this cycle — will appear at the “People’s Convention.” Other previously announced headliners include Nina Turner, Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign co-chair, and Cornel West, a Harvard philosopher and past Sanders surrogate.
MOVEMENT FOR A PEOPLE’S PARTY PEOPLE’S CONVENTION, 2020, August 30
One week after the Democratic and Republican national conventions, people from all walks of life will come together to discuss the state of the nation and plans to form a major new political party in America. A party free of corporate money and influence. A people’s party.
Join us on Sunday, August 30, from 4-6 pm Eastern Time for The People’s Convention.
The Convention will be digital and broadcast live to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter pages with well over a million subscribers and followers. Sign up for more information and updates.
MOVEMENT FOR A PEOPLE’S PARTY PEOPLE’S CONVENTION, 2020, August 30
One week after the Democratic and Republican national conventions, people from all walks of life will come together to discuss the state of the nation and plans to form a major new political party in America. A party free of corporate money and influence. A people’s party.
Join us on Sunday, August 30, from 4-6 pm Eastern Time for The People’s Convention.
The Convention will be digital and broadcast live to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter pages with well over a million subscribers and followers. Sign up for more information and updates.
Vote for who you want in 2020, but It’s time to help build the People’s Party. The convention is Aug. 30 with Nina Turner, Cornel West, Ryan Knight, and Jimmy Dore speaking. Register to participate.
MOVEMENT FOR A PEOPLE’S PARTY PEOPLE’S CONVENTION, 2020, August 30
One week after the Democratic and Republican national conventions, people from all walks of life will come together to discuss the state of the nation and plans to form a major new political party in America. A party free of corporate money and influence. A people’s party.
Join us on Sunday, August 30, from 4-6 pm Eastern Time for The People’s Convention.
The Convention will be digital and broadcast live to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter pages with well over a million subscribers and followers. Sign up for more information and updates.
Both parties have failed us miserably. The Democrats campaigned to end our movement. We need a new party.
Join @4aPeoplesParty
for The People’s Convention with @ninaturner
, @CornelWest
, @ProudSocialist
, @JimmyDoreShow
and more on Aug 30.
MOVEMENT FOR A PEOPLE’S PARTY PEOPLE’S CONVENTION, 2020, August 30
One week after the Democratic and Republican national conventions, people from all walks of life will come together to discuss the state of the nation and plans to form a major new political party in America. A party free of corporate money and influence. A people’s party.
Join us on Sunday, August 30, from 4-6 pm Eastern Time for The People’s Convention.
The Convention will be digital and broadcast live to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter pages with well over a million subscribers and followers. Sign up for more information and updates.
America is not dying because of one corrupt president. It’s dying because our entire system is corrupt. We live in an oligarchy where both major parties serve the ruling class. It is time to build a party that serves the working class. #PeoplesConvention
(07.08.2020)
Angela Davis on Not Endorsing Any Presidential Candidate: “I Think We Need a New Party”
(28.03.2016)
For more than four decades, Davis has been one of most influential activists and intellectuals in the United States. An icon of the 1970s black liberation movement, Davis’ work around issues of gender, race, class and prisons has influenced critical thought and social movements across several generations. She is a leading advocate for prison abolition, a position informed by her own experience as a fugitive on the FBI’s top 10 most wanted list more than 40 years ago. Davis talks about the “fascist appeal” of Donald Trump and explains why she is not officially endorsing any candidate in this election. “I believe in independent politics,” she says. “I still think that we need a new party, a party that is grounded in labor, a party that can speak to all of the issues around racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, what is happening in the world. We don’t yet have that party.”
Working Class 3rd Party Is Forming In America!
It’s time to accept that, for the Democratic Party, defeating Trump is secondary to defeating progressives. The past few weeks have made clear that they will go to **any** lengths to hold power. They do not care how much it damages or delegitimizes their party. Enough #DemExit
(11.03.2020)
Let’s start a campaign to build toward a Democratic Socialist Party
We recognize that a viable Democratic Socialist Party will need a larger base than what DSA currently has. Alongside growing DSA, we should call on Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilahn Omar, Labor for Bernie leaders, and many other individuals, unions, and organizations to join us in taking steps towards such a working-class, democratic, membership-controlled force to advance our political revolution against the billionaire class.
Dear DNC: This is our Declaration of Independence from your Corporate Party
Now we find ourselves in a moment where it’s far too late to talk reform. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has rigged two presidential primary elections against Bernie Sanders and millions of voters. A global pandemic and unprecedented economic meltdown have lifted the veil, revealing the greed, rot, and corporate beholdenness that has driven another giant transfer of wealth to Wall Street — just like the Great Recession — while the many suffering are thrown a few scraps to keep us from revolting.
We believe that it’s time for a party that fights alongside our movements for economic, racial, social and environmental justice instead of fighting against them. We are ready to build a dynamic movement-party — a party that centers direct action and mutual aid with electoral politics — a party that understands that civil disobedience is critical in this moment if we are to wrest our power from these craven, insatiable elites.
I think we need a new party! – Angela Davis, 2016
Replying to @BernieSanders: Please start a new party. The dems are lost.
Whenever I used to hear stuff like #DemExit or #NeverBiden, I thought these views were held by a frankly marginal slice of the electorate that doesn’t have much impact. But I am finding myself increasingly sympathetic to those folks.
That’s a bad sign. I was raised in the party.
Trump calls for ousting GOP congressman from party ahead of coronavirus relief vote
„Looks like a third rate grandstander named (Thomas Massie), a congressman from, unfortunately, a truly GREAT state, Kentucky, wants to vote against the new Save Our Workers Bill in Congress,“ Trump tweeted early Friday.
Massie’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the congressman signaled he was moving forward despite bipartisan calls to forgo calling for a roll call vote.
Something for the left to think abt.
The reason everyone obsesses over the wants & needs of moderates is bc they r constantly threatening to vote for the other team/stay home. The party thinks the left will vote for them no matter what so we have 0 power & get treated like crap.
That’s why even though M4A and GND are overwhelmingly popular, voters choose Biden because they believe they must appease those finicky moderates. Progressives and leftists can be endlessly shit on (compared to nazis called toxic etc) bc they assume we will still vote blue anyway
Van Jones: This is a very dangerous moment for the Democrats
CNN’s Van Jones and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang discuss the importance of Democrats reaching out to Bernie Sanders supporters in the event former Vice President Joe Biden lands the nomination for the party.
We need our own party. Its time to leave the sinking ship Dem party behind. After this election, The Progressive party needs its own leadership.
There are too many of us to keep us tied up trying to still be relevant to these dense, self-serving corporate dems. #BernieSurge
Rule #1 of politics is don’t piss off your base. Republicans never violate it. An entire wing of the democratic party not only violates it, but has made violating it the centerpiece of their ideology. Lecturing voters every debate using GOP talking points. Iceberg dead ahead.
Democrats should be really, really afraid of a contested nominating convention
Contested Democratic conventions in the past led to catastrophe. In 1860, the Democratic convention broke up over the issue of slavery and in the end two Democratic candidates, one from the south, the other from the north, ran for president.
‘Nobody Likes Him’: Hillary Clinton Risks a Party Split Over Bernie Sanders
That split over what direction the party should take is now a major issue in the current primary, with Mr. Sanders arguing for the full-throated leftist agenda and others counseling moderation.
Yeah, I don’t know why people are up in arms about this. Many other countries have multiparty democracies, where several parties come together in a coalition to govern. In another country, I’d be in a Labor Party like Jacinda Ardern. Our primary field would cover 2-3 parties.
AOC: ‚In any other country, Joe Biden and I would not be in the same party‘
Asked for a profile by New York Magazine about what role she might play as a member of Congress should Biden capture the White House, the freshman House Democrat from New York responded with a groan.
“Oh God,” she said. “In any other country, Joe Biden and I would not be in the same party, but in America, we are.”
New left-wing alliance including Ehud Barak aims to unseat Netanyahu in Israel’s elections
The united slate announced Thursday has the far-left Meretz party running with Barak’s new Israel Democratic Party and Stav Shaffir, who left the Labor Party, under the Democratic Camp moniker. It also hopes to bring Tzipi Livni, a former foreign minister, out of political retirement.
What it means: While Democratic Camp won’t overtake Netanyahu’s Likud and his right-wing camp, it could combine with the center-left Blue and White party to ensure that Benny Gantz, a former military chief of staff, is tapped to form the government.
New Israeli Center-left Alliance Should Take a Page Out of the American Politics Playbook
An enormous and fundamental political battle is breaking out throughout the democratic world, and in Israel, too.
A democratic first: One party wins majority in Ukraine’s parliament
Volodymyr Zelensky’s Servant of the People — 42.19 percent
Opposition Platform – For Life — 12.75 percent
Petro Poroshenko’s European Solidarity — 8.71 percent
Yulia Tymoshenko’s Batkivshchyna — 8.15 percent
Svyatoslav Vakarchuk’s Golos — 6.39 percent
How about we all form a new party? True Labour?
Gantz: September elections irreversable, Netanyahu lying
„Netanyahu pressed the button for the Knesset dissolution and there is no turning back,“ Gantz says in a statement to the media from Tel Aviv. „Netanyahu sees (election) polls and invents lies.“
Gaza, Iran, or Is It Hezbollah? Netanyahu Using Intel Warnings to Justify Nixing Election
Anyone speaking to people close to the prime minister and his ministers are hearing panic that stems not just from Benjamin Netanyahu’s vigorous attempt to stop the clock on the new election. On the agenda, they whisper, is a pending security crisis. The evil will come from the Persian Gulf, the Gaza Strip or the northern border, generated by Iran and its proxies. Then the military agenda will soon overwhelm the political one, overshadowing the political parties’ petty considerations.
After comeback announcement, poll gives Barak party 6 seats
TV survey projects center-left and Arab parties would win more seats than right-wing and Orthodox factions, though path to forming government far from clear
‚Netanyahu’s Regime Must Be Toppled‘: Ehud Barak Makes Comeback With New Israeli Political Party
Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak announced Wednesday the establishment of a new party, saying Prime Minister Benajmin Netanyahu’s regime, with its „corrupt and messianic elements,“ must be toppled.
Why I welcome these shocks to the political system
Politics in the UK is changing beyond recognition, and about time too.
Jacobin editor Bhaskar Sunkara makes a fool of himself
Politically, the most obvious conclusion to be drawn from the interview is that Sunkara is little more than a moderate Democrat. For this he receives the praise of the Democratic and Republican commentators.
While proclaiming his support for the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders, Sunkara also declares that he will back Elizabeth Warren if she beats out Sanders and Joe Biden if he is eventually the Democratic Party nominee. “I think the mentality has to be to call for people to vote for Joe Biden, especially in swing states,” he states. It is necessary “to avoid a third-party candidacy”—that is, any break from the Democratic Party—on the basis of the “strategic knowledge and commitment to getting rid of Trump.”
Sunkara adds, “Even a Biden presidency would be great” because there “will be plenty of room for socialists to be opposition.” There are, in other words, positions to be acquired.
The United States of Socialism? A debate with Jacobin editor Bhaskar Sunkara
Why is socialism having a moment in America right now — and is it the future of the political left? This week on “The Argument,” Michelle Goldberg talks with Bhaskar Sunkara, the editor of Jacobin magazine, about his new book, “The Socialist Manifesto.” They discuss what distinguishes democratic socialists from liberals, the failures of past socialist movements and why Sunkara favors Bernie Sanders over Elizabeth Warren in 2020.
Then, Ross Douthat and David Leonhardt join Michelle to debate socialism’s role on the political left.
DAN HODGES: Is Labour about to declare itself the party of the smug metropolitan elite?
Someone needs to wake up and recognise that fact. Labour is preparing to abandon the North. It’s preparing to abandon millions of supporters who have helped sustain the party over generations.
And it’s about to create a political vacuum that will see what’s left of a once-proud party implode.
To leave the peoples with no choice other than right-wingers and / or the second US on the planet is part of the paneuropean dialectic tactics. @UKLabour, @TheGreenParty THEY are the traitors. So let THEM sneer, keep your values and make it better! @labourleave @GreenLeavesorg
Do we have to carry the British Left up the stairs, too? You have no party! So do one! That’s ok in a democracy once in a century, you know!? Don’t copy the utterly fatalist Left in Germany, blindly following their paneuropean ideologues. @PaulEmbery @BrendanChilton @LeftBrexit
Are both May and Corbyn prepared to risk splitting their parties?
The irony of the stalemate in the cross-party Brexit talks is that Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn are not that far apart on the issue, as I say in The Sun this morning. They might use different language, but what they want is really quite similar.
But while they may not be that far apart, their parties are. A deal would require not one of them, but both of them to be prepared to split their parties.
Labour chairman attacks Corbyn over ‘people’s vote’ on Brexit
Jeremy Corbyn was warned by Labour party chairman Ian Lavery that he risked going down in history as the leader who split his party if he backed another referendum on Brexit, in an extraordinary outburst during a meeting of the shadow cabinet last week, according to senior party sources.
More than half of voters want a brand new party as just one in six trust Labour…and it’s almost as bad for the Tories
– Survey conducted by former Conservative Deputy Chairman Lord Ashcroft
– Fewer that one in five voters now identify with the Conservative Party
– Barely one in six feel represented by the Labour Party
– A whopping 54 per cent said they did not feel an ‚affinity‘ with any party
Netanyahu’s election rivals merge as Israeli leader makes pact with extreme right
One of those factions is Otzma Yehudit, or Jewish Power, made up of followers of the late Meir Kahane, an ultranationalist American Israeli rabbi. Israeli commentators and U.S. Jewish groups immediately decried the move, saying the faction was clearly an offshoot of Kahane’s Kach party, a group that is designated a terrorist organization by the State Department and banned in Israel.
New Blue and White Party Projected to Beat Netanyahu in Upcoming Election
Also part of the Blue and White party alliance is Moshe Ya’alon’s Telem, which made an alliance with Israel Resilience last month.
If the new faction wins the election, Gantz and Lapid would both serve as Israel’s Prime Minister. Gantz will serve for the first two and a half years while Lapid will be foreign minister and Ya’alon will lead the Defense Ministry.
Poll: Gantz-Lapid 35, Likud 32
(21.2.2019)
Blue and White: 35
Likud: 32
Hadash-Ta’al: 11
Labor: 8
New Right: 7
Jewish Home-National Union-Otzma: 6
UTJ: 6
Shas: 6
Yisrael Beytenu: 5
Meretz: 4
Gantz & Lapid Merge Parties Ahead of Elections
(21.2.2019)
#Gantz and #Lapid merge parties ahead of April #elections
My new Brexit Party, supported by Nigel Farage, will fight for our democracy
When young children are losing at board games they demand to change the rules. Yet this same juvenile intent drives the cabal of democracy defying MPs.
Nigel Farage to lead new pro-Brexit party if EU departure delayed
(20.1.2019) Former Ukip leader says he will ‘re-enter the fray’ if Brexit is put back beyond 29 March
Will Brexit break up Labour or Tories first?
Which of the Conservative and Labour parties is most likely to split over Brexit? Or perhaps it is more apposite to say which party will break up first, since the gravitational force of competing visions of the UK’s future relationship with the EU are threatening to fracture each of them.
Brexit: What happens next? Here’s how this incredible week could unfold
The Prime Minister is facing a vote that could topple her government. Here is your day-by-day guide to what could lie ahead – though of course, it could all change dramatically
Sky Views: Election call, Mars attacks? Possible outcomes of Brexit vote
Even more than with the other upsets in world politics in recent years, nobody knows what is going to happen as a result of the meaningful vote in the Commons next week on the deal the prime minister has agreed to take Britain out of the EU.
Not UKIP, but a new party will evolve from the ineffectual dithering of this government, Labour will also feel the brunt of this.
‘I will not LIE DOWN!’ Farage lines up SENSATIONAL return to politics with NEW party
Nigel Farage told the Sunday Telegraph: „I sense within me I have not fought my biggest battle yet – that is how it feels. Whether it is happenstance, serendipity, destiny.
„I am not going to lie down and watch it go down the plug hole. I couldn’t do that, and I won’t do that.
Nigel Farage unveils plan to form new party to fight ‚biggest battle yet‘ for independence from EU
Nigel Farage has said it is his „destiny“ to fight for Brexit as he unveils his plans to launch a new political party to fight next year’s European Parliament elections if the Government delays Britain’s exit from the European Union.
The former leader of the UK Independence Party told The Sunday Telegraph that he believed he had „not fought my biggest battle yet“ and would relish the battle at May’s Euro elections, which he expects to be held if Brexit is delayed.
Tory donor threatens to fund new Brexit party after Chequers ‘fiasco’
Jeremy Hosking, a co-owner of Crystal Palace football club, suggested that the “fiasco” of Theresa May’s Chequers plan was a conspiracy to prevent the UK leaving the European Union.
He told The Sunday Telegraph that he had carried out private polling which showed “clear support for a Brexit party that will deliver what the electorate thought it would be getting”.
DNC: Alleged hacking attempt was only a ‘test’
08/22/2018 01:50 PM EDT
Updated 08/23/2018 12:48 AM EDT
DNC chief security officer Bob Lord said just before midnight Wednesday that the phony website that created fears of a new cyberattack was in fact just part of a „simulated … test,“ and was created by an unnamed „third party.“
BREXIT EXPRESS – BREXIT POLL AUGUST 2018
Q13: Please imagine for a moment that a new political party has been created with one single aim – to put pressure on the main political parties to conclude Brexit as quickly and as fully as possible. To what extent, if at all, might you consider voting for such a party?
Base: all respondents
Would consider: 52 %
Would not consider: 29 %
Don’t know: 19 %
Hard Brexit SHOCK: Labour Leave voters back NEW PARTY forcing clean break from EU – poll
MOST voters in Labour-held constituencies which backed Brexit in 2016 would consider backing a single-issue political party pushing to leave the EU “as quickly and as fully as possible”, a new poll has found.
Welcome to the United States. Where we pretend all our problems are created by one man & ignore the fact that the Democrats & Republicans have been failing us for years. We need to look deeper as a society.
Movement for a People’s Party: Our Plan
The large majority of Americans are progressive. They want single payer health care, free public college, money out of politics, financial regulations, a $15 minimum wage, an infrastructure jobs program, and more. A large majority and record number of Americans are also calling for a major new party.
The country is beyond ready for a new nationally viable progressive party. But our movement is divided into thousands of smaller organizations working independently of one another. …
3rd Party Formation Very Doable Says Former Bernie Official
Third Party Viable? YES Says Former Bernie Organizer
Most Americans Desperate for Third Major Political Party in Trump Era
(27.9.2017) More Americans than ever—61 percent—say the Democratic and Republican parties are inadequate and the U.S. should have a third major political party, a new poll from Gallup shows. The desire among Americans for a competitive third party has been above 57 percent over the last five years, but Gallup’s latest poll marks a record high level of support.
DNC Gives Itself the Power to Veto Presidential Candidates
Washington, D.C. — The DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee met in Providence, R.I. on Friday, June 8 and declared a new rule that allows the party to block presidential candidates from running on the Democratic ballot.
The rule states that in order to be accepted as a candidate by the DNC, the applicants’ “public writings and/or statements” must “affirmatively demonstrate that they are faithful to the interests, welfare and success of the Democratic Party of the United States.”
The new rule means that a committee of corporate lobbyists, consultants, and people who participated in rigging the 2016 primary election will decide if a progressive is eligible to run for president in the Democratic Party in 2020. When Bernie Sanders or another progressive files to run as a Democrat, the DNC can reject them before a single vote is cast.