The Democrats

The Democrats

• Trump's teargas and racist brutality at the US-Mexico border

  

  As the Migrant Caravan arrived at the US border, they were met with heavy tear gas and rubber bullets in a show of inhumane violence, John Clarke reports

• Trump loses Congress, but the Democrats are not the winners

  

  Last night's results show increasing polarisation in US politics, with establishment politics the loser, argues Shabbir Lakha

• The socialist challenge to Trump

  

  The Trump nightmare has fired up left organisation in the US to electorally challenging the establishment, writes Sean Ledwith

• Alabama: you cannot be a socialist and an elitist

  

  You cannot understand the Alabama result if you divide and deride working class voters. Throw out elite centrism and look at class, argues Kevin Ovenden

• Trump - Year One

  

  Making sense of the Trump presidency is impossible without a systematic understanding of the forces of reaction and capitalism which paved his way, argues David Bush

• Corbyn and Obama: compare and contrast

  

  Barack Obama's comments about Jeremy Corbyn expose how out of touch with reality American liberalism is, argues Ben Myers

• Hot sauce: the Democrats and the black vote

  

  The relationship between the Democrats and US minorities is not as rosy as some may claim, notes Shabbir Lakha

• Make America hate again? Trump, the Republicans and US decline

  

  Sean Ledwith considers Donald Trump's ascendancy within the context of the history of the Republican Party and American power

• Crisis of reformism: Corbyn, Sanders and the left

  

  The re-election of Corbyn is key, but an increase in the level of class struggle is critical to lasting success, argues Lindsey German

• Bernie Sanders: America’s Corbyn moment?

  

  Despite Sanders' weaknesses, the possibilities for a revival of the movement in the US opened up by ‘Berniemania’ are real and cannot  be ignored argues Sean Ledwith