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The Electoral College: Historical Background
Surprisingly, few people in the U.S. realize that when they cast their vote on Election Day for President of the United States, their individual part of the ...
Bernie Sanders and Workers Control
The idea of “workers’ control” or “industrial democracy” is now being discussed in American political circles. Even some of the more far-sighted employers now support the idea ...
Capitalism, Class, Human Nature, War
Impressions on Returning to a Strange Native Land
I have lived more years in Japan than in my native country, the United States. My impressions of American life come from visiting Chicago for a couple ...
From Obama to Trump: An Orange Thermidor?
By Stephen Harper (SPGB), November 13, 2016 ‘His cupboard bare; his vision hardwired’ — Wire, ‘Internal Exile’ As some wag tweeted after the recent presidential election, orange ...
Iran: Again in the Crosshairs
An American war against Iran has appeared imminent on previous occasions. Eleven years ago we saw similar military and political preparations for a US attack on that ...
How Much Are You Worth?
From the May 2019 issue of The Socialist Standard Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democrat member of the US House of Representatives who calls herself a socialist, tweeted in February: ...
