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Electoral Politics

The Stimmy and the State

Tyler Zimmer · March 15, 2021

Don’t get it twisted: Biden’s stimulus is a bid to buoy corporate profits disguised in claims of a dramatic historic shift for workers.

Did Chicago Stop Enforcing Environmental Regulations?

Anthony Moser · March 15, 2021

The City of Chicago has failed to keep people safe from toxic polluters during the pandemic.

Scandals, Tantrums, and Lies

Nisha Bolsey · February 3, 2021

In the two years since Lightfoot was elected, the mayor has deflected responsibility, brutally repressed protests, and delivered working Chicagoans a big bag of nothing. Here’s the timeline of her uninspiring tenure so far.

Against Unity

Anderson Bean, brian bean · January 21, 2021

The inauguration of Joe Biden arrives with the liberal establishment proclaiming the need for unity. But unity is not what we want.

Biden's Corporate Cabinet

Biden’s Corporate Cabinet: A Breakdown

Anderson Bean · December 7, 2020

Biden's transition team and cabinet appointments so far show that he is not planning for a new New Deal but for his presidency to be pro-corporate, imperialist, and anti-worker onslaught.

Movement Alders Flip to Pass Austerity Budget

Sean Larson, Tyler Zimmer, brian bean · November 25, 2020

In the most contentious Chicago budget vote in a generation, four “progressive” alderpeople buckled to Lightfoot’s pressure and allowed an antiworker austerity city budget to pass for 2021.

Trump is Not Going Away

Tyler Zimmer · October 27, 2020

Democrats committed to the indefinite extension of neoliberalism are also committed, whether they grasp it or not, to making Trumpism a permanent feature of the political landscape.

Kamala Harris’s History: A List

Anderson Bean · August 31, 2020

Knowing Harris’s record of siding with big business and against innocent people locked in the carceral system can only serve everyone struggling for a world in which all Black lives are allowed to matter.

Lori Lighfoot: Myth and Reality

Olivia Curry, Amber Farrell · August 3, 2020

Lori Lightfoot performs progressivism on the internet, but in reality she parrots Trump at every turn and sees expanded policing as the solution to every problem.

Joe Biden’s Garbage Career: A Timeline

Anderson Bean · May 7, 2020

Joe Biden is not only a loyal soldier of neoliberalism, he has been the architect of much of today’s hellish political landscape. The last fifty years of ruling class ascendancy is a timeline studded with Creepy Joe’s despicable actions.

The Lesser of Two Rapists?

Rachel Cohen · April 13, 2020

Survivors of sexual violence face a nauseating new twist on lesser evilism.

Bernie and the House Obama Built

brian bean · April 10, 2020

Centrist corporate politics has demonstrated a strange ability to outlast multiple crises and now the insurgent campaign of Bernie Sanders. The key to their power is the Obama mythos, which will have to be taken on if they are ever to fall.

I Belong to the Movement

Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez, Ken Barrios · April 7, 2020

Chicago's 33rd Ward Alderwomen speaks on navigating local governance as a socialist, decolonization of Puerto Rico, and building alternatives to the police.

Mike Pence’s Disastrous Record on Public Health Crises

Glenn Allen · March 4, 2020

An Indiana health care worker explains why Pence’s bigotry makes him uniquely unqualified to manage a nationwide public health threat.

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