The Electoral College in the United States also plays an important role in the demobilisation of voters and social movements.
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ELECTION YEAR: The Global Context
2024 has been the ultimate election year. By the end of this year, more voters than ever in recorded history will head to the polls in at least 64 countries. Over half of the world’s population will be involved. In just the last three months alone, pivotal elections...
ISRAELI STRATEGY IN PALESTINE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS
Interview with Gilbert Achcar Amandla!: The scale of Israel’s attack on Gaza is unprecedented. Do you see this largely as an act of vengeance or does it have a strategic purpose? Gilbert Achcar: Of course, one dimension of it resembles an act of vengeance. But it is...
U.S. labor in the crisis: Resistance or retreat?
THE ELECTION of Barack Obama last November seemed to promise a new era for organized labor. With Obama in the White House and a solid Democratic majority in Congress, it appeared that unions would finally be able to get action on their main legislative agenda—passage...
Postcards from Honduras
Sunday, July 5, 2009 DAY 8: COUP GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN ALL AIRPORTS IN HONDURAS TO IMPEDE PRESIDENT ZELAYA'S RETURN The de facto coup government in place in Honduras since last Sunday's coup d'etat has militarized the international airport outside the capital city of...
Save Darfur’: Emancipatory American Exceptionalism?
Several contributors to this blog have disputed Mahmood Mamdani’s arguments about the links between ‘Save Darfur’ (in the wider sense of the mass movement) and the George W. Bush Administration’s ‘global war on terror,’ or conversely supported them. I think there is...
Honduras: Obama’s first coup d’etat?
June 28, 2009 -- Caracas, Venezuela The text message that beeped on my cell phone this morning read: “Alert, Zelaya has been kidnapped, coup d’etat underway in Honduras, spread the word.” It’s a rude awakening for a Sunday morning, especially for the millions of...
Interview: Mahmood Mamdani on Darfur
June 2009 In his new book Mahmood Mamdani puts the war in Darfur in historical context and challenges the Save Darfur Coalition's characterisation of the conflict and its call for international intervention. He talks to Charlie Kimber You reject the label genocide and...
Why the U.S. Stimulus Package is Bound To Fail
Much is to be gained by viewing the contemporary crisis as a surface eruption generated out of deep tectonic shifts in the spatio-temporal disposition of capitalist development. The tectonic plates are now accelerating their motion and the likelihood of more frequent...