Barack Obama invokes the traditions of the first and second American revolutions and the 1960s civil rights movement. As Ted North shows, this has created huge popular expectations One would have had to be hiding deep in the Amazon to have avoided the news that Barack Obama is now the 44th president of the United States ...
Ted North watches a new US administration takes shape The widespread rejoicing at the election of Barrack Obama, including by some on the left, can now be put into context as his incoming administration takes shape. Soon to be key figures are emerging from the competing mass of careerists, lobbyists, and various other undesirable kinds of ...
How deep is official anti-racism? James Turley examines the question There can be few constituencies in America which have received the results of the November 4 presidential election as favourably as the nation’s black voters. Always a reliably Democrat demographic, 96% of African-Americans cast their ballot for Obama, with only 3% voting for McCain. The most obvious ...
James Turley sees the illusions of millions reflected in the left A couple of years ago, I spent an overly large part of my life in endless polemics with various rank-and-file leftists on internet forums, mostly of American extraction. I was particularly harsh on the US International Socialist Organization, formerly the franchise of the British Socialist Workers ...